Book review of Tayfur, M. F. (2003): "Semiperipheral Development and Foreign Policy. The Cases of Greece and Spain", Ashgate Pub Co.

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...

Starting from Professor Kornai´s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-termperspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performanceof the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. Wepresent in a simple form the...

This paper highlights the question of Muslim integration in Europe from the recent perspective of the social integration of non-nationals in the EU, put forward by the European Commission (2007). While there is a never-ending debate on Islamism, Islamist terrorism and the identity of Europe...

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

The process of European Union eastern enlargement involving the Luxemburg and the Helsinki groups of candidate countries was positively accomplished in 2004.But what next, and with what effects for world society after the eastern border of the Union will run from Estonia in the far North of...