investigates how the accession of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to the European Union (EU) affected trade in …-2009, we find that EU accession mainly fostered Eastern entrants' integration in other CEECs' value chains. Smaller integration …

investigate if EU fish standards are protectionist following reoccurring rejection of African fish products at the EU border … variables. In addition, we find EU standards are indeed non-protectionist in spite of the high level of African fish exports … rejected since 2008 at the EU border. Thus, a deeper trade agreement between these trading partners involving a significant …

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

to the European Union (EU). As a novelty to the literature, we analyse the impacts of EU pesticide standards on African … protect EU growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. We represent these trade costs in the … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the …

The eastern expansion of the EU resembles German unification in its mometousness. Whereas the latter led to a 26 …% increase in the population of the Federal Republic, the former will increase the population of the EU by 28% if all ten entry … and western Eurpean countries, a massive westward migration can be expected after EU expansion. A temporary east …