In the light of the current economic debt crisis within the Euro zone, the heterogeneity of EU members has becoming … economic integration with the other EU members. Despite the common use of the term "European integration", neither a uniform … integration are hard to quantify, thereby making it almost impossible to argue objectively whether an individual EU member state …

the economic success of EU states statistically tangible. Firstly, we show in descriptive illustrations that the … theoretically expected characteristics of small countries clearly apply to the current EU states. From the theoretical perspective … influenced by factors other than population size, such as the duration of EU membership, the level of economic development …

This paper investigates the trade effects of Turkey’s trade integration into the EU. To this end sectoral trade flows … to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002 are examined concentrating on Turkey's sixteen most important … export sectors. Emphasis is placed on the role of price competition, EU protection, and transport costs in the export trade …

find that the effect of the 2004 EU enlargement has been positive for both intermediate and final goods trade, and it is in …