This paper reports newly collected empirical data sets on explicitly contested voting at ministerial level in the Council of Ministers of the European Union. These data sets cover the period 1994-2004, with more detail for the years 1998-2004. They provide us with rather steady patterns of...

This article presents newly collected empirical data sets on explicitly contested voting at ministerial level in the Council of Ministers of the European Union. These data sets cover the period 1994-2004, with greater detail for the years 1998-2004. They provide us with rather steady patterns of...

[eng] A cost benefit analysis of EU accession with special emphasis of the political economy aspects of their distribution . The subject matter of this paper is to investigate the benefits and costs of the accession of Eastern European countries into the EU and the political constraints that...