The achievement of social and economic development involves three processes: the increase in gross domestic product per capita, the reduction of unemployment and increase of employment, the reduction of poverty and income inequalities. Directly related to that are the objectives of new EU member...

European integration will only be successful in the long term if Europe's citizens become more involved in the political decision making and legislative processes of the European Union. A not-so-negligent number of European citizens, many of whom are in Germany, complain that they are becoming...

The paper explores the preferences of subnational administrative elites with respect to crucial issues of European and subnational governance. The individual preferences of top subnational officials from five European countries are ascertained, patterns are identified and the data are...