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 …

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …

find that the effect of the 2004 EU enlargement has been positive for both intermediate and final goods trade, and it is in …

The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … is a rational reaction of the state. The proposed new EU constitution which contains far-reaching rules for a European …