The goal of this paper is to present the key learnings from our survey conducted among the politicians and diplomats representing all parties in the accession negotiations. The main objective of this study was to identify the negotiating profiles demonstrated by the negotiation participants...

The adhesion to the European Union in January 2007 induced significant changes in the Romania's foreign trade. In the new circumstances, the Romanian firms have to face an increased competition, but they could also fructify the opportunities of the European single market. Other changes could...

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the economically weaker countries of the European Union that adopted the euro as a common currency soon started to feel the pressure of markets. In a monetary union, with one single central bank in charge of the monetary policy but without a common...

The entitled theme of the project [focused on Generosity–Creativity–Solidarity Triad and Energy Security] stands in a way apart from the actual tragic context of war in Ukraine, and on war as a broader tragic stance of our humankind. Not to point more on the long-term dramatic COVID19...

The aim of the chapter is to answer the question about the scope and consequences of the process of Europeanization of the EU energy policy. The phenomenon is caused not only by the pressure from Brussels, but, most of all, by challenges and threats from outside the European system. The point of...

This Occasional Paper examines how and why the institutional framework governing EMU has evolved since the creation of the euro. Building on theories of institutionalism, the paper in particular investigates to what extent functional spillovers from the single currency into other policy domains,...

This paper presents a model which focuses on differences between the competition policy of the EU and antitrust of the U.S. It introduces three versions - Neutral, American, and European. Two-stage game model takes the authority’s perspective and describes options and behavior of antitrust...