Aiming to explain the European divide with respect to social and political values, scholars in the past have relied on a simplified four- (or even two-) dimensional regime model which tranches the continent according to the social capacities of its inhabitants. This "cartography" of "Social...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of the development level indicators on the e-commerce, i.e. on the online purchase by individuals, in selected European countries in 2013. In the analysis, the main variable under study and all the independent variables are included as...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been 1 billion identified cases and more than 2 million deaths around the world. The current global problem of the pandemic, with the introduction of unpopular measures such as border closures and total quarantine, revealed a dilemma...

The present study investigated Italian consumers' awareness, perception, knowledge of European Union (EU) quality certifications: Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), Traditional Specialty Guaranteed (TSG), and organic as well as the consumption of...

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process,known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor.Therefore,the paper aims at providing a quantitative...