The accession of eight Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union in 2004 will bring some important benefits. The new members will gain from reduced barriers to trade and investment. By 2010, the movement of labour will also be freed. But accession to the EU is neither a...

The purpose of this EMN Focussed Study 2012 was to act as a scoping exercise to better understand the key issues and challenges in relation to the intra-EU mobility of third-country nationals in the different Member States. ... The study aimed, firstly, to provide an overview of current mobility...

Die Europäische Union steht nicht nur für freien Handel, offene Grenzen und eine gemeinsame Währung. Jeder EU-Bürger gleich welchen Alters hat das Recht, in einem EU-Land seiner Wahl zu reisen, zu leben, zu arbeiten, zu studieren oder seinen Ruhestand zu verbringen. Es gibt eine Fülle von...

The paper examines the impact of EU enlargement on migration, the effects of the transition period on the free movement in the enlarged Union and the abolition of border checks between the new and u0091oldu0092 member states. It argues that the present enlargement will remain unfinished for an...

The paper explores the economic implications of the possible Turkish accession to the European Union. It focuses on three main changes associated with Turkish membership: (i) accession to the internal European Market; (ii) institutional reforms in Turkey triggered by EU membership; and (iii)...

This paper deals with the discussion in Germany about job exports to the low-cost Eastern European members of the EU. It states that the critics of EU enlargement in Germany have overlooked that Eastern and Western Europe strongly differ in their capital formation and productivity levels. The...