EU integration of CEE countries provides new development opportunities for all regions along EU's external frontier based on cross-border economic and regional policies. In the preparatory phase, an offensive structural policy should be supplemented by negotiations on administrative measures...

Austria's manufacturing particularly profited from the reforms in its eastern neighbour countries. A rise in exports to the neighbouring CEECs increased the net production value by about ATS 14 billion. The effects of an EU eastern enlargement will be even more pronounced, provided that the...

Differences between economic sectors in the current trade regime and in terms of competitiveness should lead to markedly divergent effects that EU enlargement will have on the Austrian secondary and tertiary sectors. In both of these sectors, industries prevail that have positive or at least...

The effects of the EU enlargement will not be spread evenly across all regions in Austria: this assessment is the outcome of an analysis of sectoral structures and regional location factors. Using a range of approaches to (regional) growth theory, regional development determinants were derived...

In the EU member states – particularly in Germany and Austria – there are concerns that national labour markets will be burdened by migration and that wages will come under pressure if the countries in Central and Eastern Europe are granted unrestricted labour mobility immediately upon their...