Central and East European countries (CEEC) differ significantly with regards to their economic performance despite the fact that external policy prescriptions are very similar in all these countries. Extreme diversity and fragility in the performance of the main economic variables such as GDP...

The coming enlargement of the European Union is an opportunity and a challenge for taking decisions on a substantial reform of its institutional framework. After the negative experience of the past Intergovernmental Conferences leading to the Treaties of Amsterdam and Nice, the preparation of...

On 1 May 2004 the EU will enlarge to 25 member states. Member states are uncertain what they will gain or lose from enlargement and they are concerned about the implications for the functioning of the EU. Talk is even of enlargement as a u0093leap in the darku0094. The reports in this study deal...

This thematic evaluation on Support to Economic Governance in Enlargement and Neighbourhood Countries has been carried out from January 2016through mid-2017. The global objective of the evaluation is to provide findings and recommendations to assist DG NEAR in streamlining its approach to...

This note provides an overview of France, its political, economic and administrativesystem, together with a description of European Union support to France, and theOperational Programmes contained in the National Strategic Reference Frameworkfor the period 2007-2013.Special attention is given to...