neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the authors aim to assess the existing trends in the size of the gaps across … countries and problem areas, taking into consideration the specific origin of the gap between EU15/EU12, on the one hand, and … FSU republics, EU candidates and West Balkan countries, on the other hand. The paper is structured as follows: 1. A review …

The EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in 1997 foresees the possible … an EU-Russia FTA will be beneficial to the Russian Federation and the EU27. Some sectors are expected to contract in the … to expand, while only a few sectors in the EU27 are expected to register negligible decreases in output. We estimate that …

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to …

We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can …

neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the authors aim to assess the existing trends in the size of the gaps across … countries and problem areas, taking into consideration the specific origin of the gap between EU15/EU12, on the one hand, and … FSU republics, EU candidates and West Balkan countries, on the other hand. The paper is structured as follows: (1) An …

What characterizes the EU today is that it is not only a multi-level governance system, but also a multi-context system …

Wenn sich die derzeitigen politischen Trends in den USA unverändert fortsetzen, ist eine Krise der Demokratie nur eine …

, we argue, can be partially restored by having an accountable judiciary. Our empirical findings show that divided …, that the effect of an accountable judiciary is stronger under unified government, where government cannot control itself …. The effect of an accountable judiciary seems to be driven primarily by judges chosen through direct elections, rather than …