The paper discusses similarities and differences between past EU binding internal liberalization "across the board" in … Uruguay Round. The paper proposes a number of measures successfully applied in the EU to give APEC’s liberalization more …

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 …

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the … the EU. It turns out that in 1997 EU consumers paid roughly ECU 25 billion more for T&C products, due to quotas, tariffs …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … effect. Based on additional simulations of the expected flows to ten transition economies, we conclude that for the EU …

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid …

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from …