Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU … effectiveness of the EU internationally although it remains embedded in an unreformed institutional framework that struggles 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 …

applied to a wide range of EU and OECD countries, including Slovenia and Croatia, to evaluate the technical efficiency of … great majority of EU and OECD countries. Both Slovenia and Croatia show a relatively high level of technical inefficiency in …

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 …

The paper attempts to measure relative efficiency in utilizing public education expenditures in the new EU member … states in comparison to the selected EU (plus Croatia) and OECD countries. As resources allocated to education are … of (output-oriented) efficiency measures shows that among the new EU member states Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia seem to …