This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...

The CIS region is of vital importance for the EU countries considering that both are interconnected through cooperation or membership in supranational political and economic institutions (OSCE, WTO, OECD, NATO, etc.), through transport and energy corridors, through investment, trade and...

Seit der Erweiterung am 1. Mai 2004 gehören acht vormals sozialistische Länder - Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, die Tschechische Republik, die Slowakische Republik, Ungarn und Slowenien - der Europäischen Union an. Auch im Jahr ihres Beitritts wiesen die neuen EU-Mitglieder eine kräftige...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors behind the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries with the euro area in the past ten years and to gauge the potential for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model estimated with a large sample...

This paper reviews selected aspects of economic relations between the EU and Russia, focusing on the impact that the last two waves of EU enlargement have had on Russia, as well as the role of the euro in Russia. The analysis suggests that if EU enlargement has had any diversion effects on trade...

Die Türkei ist im Ausnahmezustand, das Verhältnis zur EU gefährdet wie nie und die Chance auf einen EU-Beitritt ist gesunken. Statt der Diskussion über ungenutzte wirtschaftliche Potenziale rücken nunmehr die Fragen der Bewertungen der politischen Risiken in das Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit....

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether old and new EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether new ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than old ones. We find that...