As the EU economies and societies become increasingly integrated, and as labour market behaviour patterns converge … across borders, the EU strives to develop a substantially common social identity. To this end, it seeks to promote the … unrealistic to try to establish a common EU social protection model under the prevailing great differences in social organisation …

In this paper we would like to draw attention on the fact how important for the absorption of the EU funds might be … each country's or region's split of its financial portfolio between EU, national and private sources of co-financing. Based …

EU Structural Funds may be important. The central topic of our paper is the question of how to measure the administrative … five Candidate Countries before their accession to the EU: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia and Slovenia …