In den Verhandlungen zur EU-Osterweiterung stehen im ersten Halbjahr 2001 die Regelung zur Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit … auf der Tagesordnung. Mittlerweile liegen mehrere Schätzungen des Zuwanderungspotentials vor, das nach der EU … erster Linie die bestehenden ökonomischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für Wanderungen innerhalb einer erweiterten EU …

-Crisis substantial reforms in the institutional organization of the Euro-Area and the EU will become necessary. It will help policy …

Starting on 1st of May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …

Starting on 1 May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined the … European Union (EU) in three consecutive waves. Half a generation later, and a full generation after the start of transition in …