need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

reflected. The still dramatic unemployment situation has led to a joint job creation strategy on EU level whose functioning … needs careful analysis. In view of the forthcoming enlargement of the EU it has in addition become of utmost importance to …

The eastern expansion of the EU resembles German unification in its mometousness. Whereas the latter led to a 26 …% increase in the population of the Federal Republic, the former will increase the population of the EU by 28% if all ten entry … and western Eurpean countries, a massive westward migration can be expected after EU expansion. A temporary east …

Ausgestaltung der EU-Politiken ergeben können. Die mit der Erweiterung einhergehende zunehmende Heterogenität der ökonomischen … Ländergruppen existieren können als dies in der alten EU der Fall war. Für ausgewählte Politikbereiche zeigt die empirische Analyse …