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 …

two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …

relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that … because of an adequate social environment with little inequality, that may be associated with economic well-being. …

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

individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy and it increases the … that democracies are ineffective, regardless of joblessness. People's beliefs about the effectiveness of democracy as …

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 …