10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …

decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates …

in the EU managed to reduce their expected spending on pensions in both reference periods. In the second part of the … in the ten Central and Eastern European countries that became EU members in 2004 and 2007 (EU-10). -- Pension system …

the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact … on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also … vote together and that their influence is thus fairly limited. We argue that as the EU seemingly lacks energy to implement …

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …

the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact, suffer from the same endogeneity flaw. Consequently, we argue that a fiscal rule must …

Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members. -- Trade …