This paper presents a model which focuses on differences between the competition policy of the EU and antitrust of the U.S. It introduces three versions - Neutral, American, and European. Two-stage game model takes the authority’s perspective and describes options and behavior of antitrust...

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the economically weaker countries of the European Union that adopted the euro as a common currency soon started to feel the pressure of markets. In a monetary union, with one single central bank in charge of the monetary policy but without a common...

Despite the political and economic importance of the fifth European Union enlargement, so far not much attention has been devoted to the negotiation process that led to this event. The goal of this paper is to present the results of our survey conducted among politicians and diplomats...

The aim of the chapter is to answer the question about the scope and consequences of the process of Europeanization of the EU energy policy. The phenomenon is caused not only by the pressure from Brussels, but, most of all, by challenges and threats from outside the European system. The point of...

This Occasional Paper examines how and why the institutional framework governing EMU has evolved since the creation of the euro. Building on theories of institutionalism, the paper in particular investigates to what extent functional spillovers from the single currency into other policy domains,...

The goal of this paper is to present the key learnings from our survey conducted among the politicians and diplomats representing all parties in the accession negotiations. The main objective of this study was to identify the negotiating profiles demonstrated by the negotiation participants...