essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities. Free access to and availability of ocean resources and … element for sustainable ocean management. The SDGs will build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and replace them by … 2015. Even though ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the eight MDG goals, the ocean is not explicitly included …

EU has decided to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% relative to 1990 until the year 2020. These reductions will even rise … competitiveness as a priority area for EU policy and there is some concern about the competitiveness effects of EU climate policy. We … use the multi-sector, multi-region computable general equilibrium model DART to assess the impacts of the recent EU …

be determined by the process of European Union (EU) integration. Our analysis shows that southern and eastern European … countries already appear to be surprisingly similar regarding FDI flows from EU members. The central and eastern European … regional arrangement like the EU is neither sufficient for sustained capital inflows nor is it the guarantee for increased …

Greece has applied for membership in the European Communities on June 13, 1975, Portugal on March 28, 1977, and Spain … January 1, 1981, while Portugal and Spain have become the eleventh and twelth member since January 1, 1986. However, the … routes of these countries to the EC were much longer. The aim of the study is to overview the experience of Greece, Portugal …

optimality in comparison with a reference group of the four EMU-member countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. The …The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from …

investigation of the sustainable oceanic development of EU coastal states highlights how much a comprehensive assessment can benefit …