The paper examines the determinants of location choices of French multinational firms in eastern and western Europe. The sample includes 1,843 location choices in 19 countries over the years 1980-1999. The results suggest there might be important differences between the two regions of Europe...

This paper analyses regional growth in eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. It aims to identify the factors behind growth and to investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

The collapse of the communist regime in Central and South-Eastern Europe gave way to sweeping economic and socio-political changes, marked by the conversion of centrally planned state economies into market economies, political liberalisation and democratisation, as well as to integration into...

This evaluation commissioned by the European Commission aims at providing an overall independent assessment of its external cooperation with partner countries through the organisations of the UN family. It covers the partnership between the Commission and the UN to the extent of the...

The migratory flows between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have a historical continuity, their nature varying according to the period in question. It is possible to identify a transatlantic migratory system dating back to the age of colonisation, the specific...

The 2017 European Migration Network (EMN) Annual Policy Report on Asylum and Migration provides a summary of the most important developments and changes in the fields of migration, asylum and integration during the year 2017. In making its migration policy, the Czech Republic continues to apply...

The 2017 Annual Report on migration and asylum aims to cover changes to immigration and asylum policy and legislation which have taken place throughout the year. Relevant departments and services were asked to provide information relating to legislative and regulatory provisions as well as...