The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations are important not only for the business environment, but also for the society in general, considering that it aims at establishing a new set of rules for trade and investment between the two largest partners in the global economy....

This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

This paper analyses the justifications and stages of the elaboration of impact studies at the European level, focusing on the various working methods, be it „impact matrix” or the „logic of intervention”, which may be adopted by law-makers, in order to improve the regulation mechanisms...