The paper argues that both the deepening of the EU, and the concrete form of its eastward expansion is motivated by an overarching project of neoliberal restructuring at the EU level, initiated by the forces of an emerging transnational capitalist class. Whereas the deepening project could be...

This article argues that the relatively successful incorporation of Southern Europe into the European heartland of transnational production and finance occurred under fundamentally different circumstances than the present political and economic transformations in Central Europe. Different elite...

The "opening of the East" has led to a restructuring of the regional system in East-Central Europe. West European corporations spread out their locations of production activity over the extended European economic space. The formation of "branch plant economies" is not the only development path...