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 …

has also been proposed that the new EU Member States (NMS) may struggle with even higher persistence due to convergence …

square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured …

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 …

This paper analyzes possible incidences of Turkish EU accession on the emigration from Turkey to the European Union …. Panel data estimators are applied on the emigration data from EU-18 into Germany in order to construct possible future … scenarios of Turkish migration to the EU. Eventual migration flows from Turkey into the EU are forecasted based on the estimated …

The European Union (EU) is not de jure a federation, but after 50 years of institutional evolution it possesses … attributes of a federal state. One can conclude that EU is something betweenʺ federation and intergovernmental organization. If … federation, the questions are: What is the location of recent EU on this interval? What tendency of development of this location …

shocks between the individual new EU member countries and the `EU-core'. Treating the whole economy as one sector this is a … to have strongly different behaviour during the crisis. -- OCA ; supply and demand shocks ; VAR decomposition ; new EU …

market data to evaluate an impact of the recent EU merger control. -- merger control ; European Union ; political economy …