economic integration encourages governments to take steps to resolve conflicts and vice versa, creating a virtuous circle of …

citizens have a considerably higher probability of being in favour of the process of EU integration …

, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1 …

. But integration, for instance delegating power from the nation-state to a supra-national level or international … French regions Alsace and Lorraine allows estimating differences in support for integration in a spatial regression … discontinuity design. More negative exposure to nation-state actions causes persistently higher support for European integration in …

This paper discusses the process of European institutional integration from a political-economy perspective, linking … integration and disintegration. First, we introduce the fundamental trade-off between economies of scale associated with larger … implications of the trade-off for European integration. Second, we describe the two main political theories of European integration …