Many of the EU accession countries have announced that they will not only try to enter the EU as quickly as possible but also to adopt the euro at an early date. This is justified by the effort to avoid the danger of financial instability in the period prior to euro-introduction. However, by...

Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results in not fully developed yet institutional infrastructure for managing especially the immigrants flow. In this paper we structure all existing data and other pieces of information...

The Central and East European transition countries are pinning considerable hopes for their economic future on entry into the European Union. However, given the huge amount of catching up they still have to do in economic terms, the tough entry conditions they have to meet and the limited amount...