At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the fifteen member nations. The opponents … of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and … the travel fare within the EU but also could be characterised as a supplement to the normal retail trade for some products …

Am 1.5.2004 sind zehn neue Mitgliedstaaten, vor allem Transformationsländer, in die EU aufgenommen worden. Drei Jahre … Beitritt grundsätzlich profitiert, sogar in Hinblick auf die Beihilferegelungen konnten sie den strengen Anforderungen der EU …Ten years after the biggest enlargement in the history of the EU, the integration of the new member states is assessed …

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …

role of monetary regimes (currency anchor) and EU enlargement (political and geostrategic anchor) and their relationships … EU-wide …

of the WB countries to the EU15. The empirical results confirm the importance of wage gaps and their changes as an …

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …

shocks between the individual new EU member countries and the `EU-core'. Treating the whole economy as one sector this is a … to have strongly different behaviour during the crisis. -- OCA ; supply and demand shocks ; VAR decomposition ; new EU …