The paper discusses the relevance of past concerns about trade and foreign direct investment diversion to the detriment of Asian suppliers and hosts as a result of EU integration deepening and widening in the nineties. Based on recent empirical evidence, these concerns are rejected. As concerns...

This volume explores how the governments of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively via the European Communities, assisted in the consolidation of the Franco regime. It explains how the Six (the Nine after 1972)...

Where do we actually live? What challenges are we facing here in Europe? Are we even aware of all these challenges? Are we aware of the pendulum that is constantly swinging? The world is changing, it is becoming poly-centric. What Mediterranean once was the Atlantic was after it, and now the...