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 …

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

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 …

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for … higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …

In this paper we are interested in the relationship between globalization, political institutions (notably, democracy … environmental cooperation. While some authors argue that democracy and globalization tend to promote international efforts to … democracy on environmental cooperation is rather diffuse and so is the effect of economic integration (trade openness). …

-down technocratic "solutions". To make this combination result in a unified pro-environment electorate, we must understand: religious …