distribution of power in the Council and inter-institutional power between the EU's decision-making bodies. -- European integration …

economic integration with the other EU members. Despite the common use of the term "European integration", neither a uniform … integration are hard to quantify, thereby making it almost impossible to argue objectively whether an individual EU member state … has fallen behind the general speed of European integration or whether the distance to a potential core group is …

Der Begriff der europäischen Integration findet in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen und politi-schen Debatten zwar große … quantifizierbar. Auch wird selten darauf eingegangen, dass die Integration mit den Partnerländern der Gemeinschaft in den ein … dass sich im Zeitablauf der letzten zwölf Jahre eine positive Verstärkung der Integration bei fast allen ergeben hat. Bei …

The three essays of this dissertation contribute to the measurement of European economic integration and investigate … measures the extent of economic integration into the European Union for the EU-15 member states over the period 1999–2010. The … between the member states with respect to overall integration and to various sub-indices. By using cluster a... …

The concept of European integration is often investigated in scientific papers and political debates, a uniform … definition of this concept does not exist, however. Thereby, different steps and processes of European integration are hardly … quantifiable. Moreover, it is hardly ever discussed that the level of integration varies greatly between the individual EU member …

Historiography on European integration before 1914 has acknowledged that the level of entanglements between the …, social, technical and even political level. And yet, the exact level of economic integration has hitherto been unknown ….In this paper, we quantitatively analyse the level of economic integration in Europe. We develop a comprehensive economic …