The European Union’s center-piece of economic policy making is the Lisbon process, which tries to make Europe the most competitive economic region in the world economy by 2010. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso recently presented a Centre for European Reform (CER) study that...

European integration within the booming European Union with its original as well as emerging members became a prominent example of sustainable economic growth, employment and social and ecologic development. However, conditions throughout the EU are not the same everywhere; moreover, they change...

The following paper is aimed to describe technical and executive mechanisms that accompany and complete the legislative procedures of the European Union. With an increase in a legislative agenda a new mechanism has been created. In this procedure specific legal aspects are delegated from The...

After many years of efforts to clear classification of EU competencies, these competencies were divided into exclusive, shared and co-ordination by Title I, Articles 2–6 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon. At the same time the areas were...

The paper presents results of own empirical research conducted on a random sample of 323 enterprises localized in małopolskie voivodeship in the first half of the year 2007. The period of 3 years after the accession of Poland to the European Union allowed to preliminary evaluation of the...

The crucial importance of manufacturing for the European Union (EU) and the need for a new growth model for the European economy has been recognized and documented. Whilst the major responsibility for industrial competitiveness and sustainability lies within industry itself, the EU, Member...

When the global financial crisis hit the shores of Europe, after crossing the Atlantic, the Eurozone was considered a safe haven. After the first Greek bailout in May 2010, the discourse had now changed completely; the debt crisis was the euro's fault. As a result, some argued that Greece and...

Previous studies have argued that the enlargement of the European Union triggered a geographical reorientation and diversification in the exports by European Union member states, caused by a combination of trade creation and trade diversion. This paper adds to the existing literature, by...

My contribution presents a possibility to unify Europe based on newly emerging political units focused on solving problems rather than on historically given nation states. These Endogenous Political Entities (EPE), as they shall be called, are better suited to reach the goals of European...