of Asian suppliers and hosts as a result of EU integration deepening and widening in the nineties. Based on recent …), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … of the Europe Agreements. As trade overlaps between Asian and CEE supply on EU markets are low, the trade diversion fear …

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …

ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common … the democratic deficit at the EU level is reduced. The Treaty of Nice has failed to solve these issues. …