median income. However, for grasping trends in social cohesion in the European Union (EU), and identifying options and … pitfalls for social policy initiatives at the EU level, EU-wide income differences are at least as important as national income … differences. Therefore, in this paper we document recent trends in national and EU-wide income poverty dynamics. We analyse to …

international firms and systematically important non-banking financial institutions. EU on the basis of reports Larosière Commission …

In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data … the EU and its major competitors (US, Japan, BRIC, Asian Tigers) and then we look more closely at the role and evolution … on the EU-US R&D intensity gap and, by applying firm level econometric analysis, we test whether the results obtained by …

the EU among themselves. In the long term this Problem stylized to a dramatic debt crisis for one Part of the EU member … development orientation of the Far East. The dominant Forces into the EU tries to handle with this external competition problem … the EU instances, is not transferred to the benefit of democratically elected bodies like the European Parliament, but to …

seriously amiss with EU labor markets. The theme of this piece issimple. Compared to an ideal competitive market, EU labor … markets fall seriously short, butcompared to labor markets in the US and to other markets in advanced capitalist countries,EU … labor markets do not live up to their awful press. The variety of labor market institutionsamong EU countries, moreover …