This report has been requested by the European Commission from the OMAS Consortium (OMAS). It is based on a detailed analysis of (Monitoring and Assessment) documentation produced by OMAS from 1996 to 2001, in particular, summaries from the Country Assessment Reviews (CARs) in relation to the...

This report is one of a series of six Ad Hoc and Thematic Reports which the OMAS Consortium is preparing. Its objectives are, firstly, “to assist the Candidate Countries in meeting the short and medium term challenges for accession, through analysis of OMAS experience of Monitoring and...

This thematic report examines the extent to which Phare Programmes have achieved their Civil Society objectives. The purpose of the report is to providing a tool to support those responsible, in the Commission Services as well as in the 10 Candidate Countries (CC), for the design and...

This is one of six Thematic Reports which the OMAS Consortium is preparing. Its purpose is to identify issues where improvement appears desirable in relation to the Twinning Instrument, and to stimulate debate on constructive approaches to the operation of Twinning for the future. The report, as...

This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...

Diese Studie analysiert den interregionalen Assoziierungsprozeß zwischen der Europäischen Union und dem Mercosur und Chile sowie seine Auswirkungen auf den Sektor Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft der EU.

The paper explores the role of alliances in Central European countries from the perspective of growth of enterprises. The analysis is based on a comparative overview of 26 case studies of enterprises in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary which have alliances with foreign partners. Most of...