In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements … the EU, the paper shows that the Eastern Partnership countries, including Ukraine, by far the largest in the group, gain … significantly from free trade agreements with the EU, but gain little if anything from free trade agreements with Russia. …

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

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 …

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 …

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