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 …

decision-making process in the post-Lisbon EU, since the previous distinction between community and intergovernmental decision … and Member States in EU policies set in the Lisbon Treaty being the dividing criteria. The text identifies the strengths …

The Republic of Serbia has declared accession of the European Union to be the main strategic goal and recognized the EU …

consideration are the enlargement of the EU, Russias likely membership in the WTO, the future economic agreements between the EU and …

Euro or not? Early lessons from the crisis (by Ch. Wyplosz, pp. 1-4) Keywords euro, EU, crisis Countries covered … European Union Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy Migration from the New to the Old EU Member States country … experiences (by H. Vidovic; pp. 5-14) Keywords migration, EU, integration Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States …

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 …

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 …