responses. If EU Member states wish to maintain and deepen economic integration, they must accept an erosion of sovereignty over …

Numerous recent studies, e.g. EU Commission (2004a), Baele et al. (2004), Adam et al. (2002), and the research pooled … in ECB-CFS (2005), Gaspar, Hartmann, and Sleijpen (2003), have documented progress in EU financial integration from a … current and potentially new euro states can be overcome. The analysis could be extended to the new EU member countries, to the …

export flows toward the EU market of four of the so-called "accession" countries of Central and Eastern Europe by comparing … them to those of the pre-2004 members of the European Union (EU15). From a methodological point of view, we evaluate the … process) and EU-similarity (if and how the export composition of a CEEC has changed with respect to the EU15 export …

-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …