course of 2020/21 the US, the EU and the UK, as well as other countries, will face both an increasing number of infected … and the EU in the medium term, a development that undermines the international competitiveness of the United States. The … UK and the EU27 as well as EU-UK trade negotiations. Integrating the health care sector into macroeconomics, which should …

The process of EU integration has intensified in the 1980s and early 1990s. The desire of a number of central and … eastern European countries to join the EU is often seen as a threat to the continuation of this process. How wide should the … radius of EU enlargement be? Which forms of integration would be appropriate between the EU and different subsets of ex …

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … effect. Based on additional simulations of the expected flows to ten transition economies, we conclude that for the EU …

Auf der Tagung des Europäischen Rates in Kopenhagen wurde der Beschluss gefasst, die EU nach Osten hin zu öffnen und … assoziierte Länder Mittel- und Osteuropas sowie Malta und Zypern in eine erweiterte Gemeinschaft aufzunehmen. Der Beitritt zur EU … IfW-Beitrittsindikator vergleicht die Reformfortschritte der zwölf Kandidatenländer mit dem Stand der Reformen in vier EU …