The Regional competitiveness index is the first measure of the degree of competitiveness at regional level covering all EU countries and their regions. The paper presents briefly the methodological frame of the RCI and then applies it to Bulgarian NUTS 2 regions. The results achieved show the...

The article summarizes the historical development of the European policy on migration since the establishment of the European Economic Community. The study introduces a classification of five stages of development based on the extent and deepness of the policy’s communitarization and the ways...

The dissertation examines the development of the global direction of the EU Common commercial policy (CCP) in the period 2000-2009. The prerequisites for the global direction becoming a leading one are identified – economic globalization, accelerated development of the global trade, the new...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the changes in the dynamics of Bulgarian international trade before and after EU accession. To achieve this it studies the main trends in the dynamics of the value and volume of trade flows, the openness of the economy, the value and share of trade with other...