The current paper analyzes, in a benchmarking approach, how the Eastern Partnership group of countries, namely Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are performing, compared with Romania and Bulgaria, the last two countries that have joined the European Union, in 2007, but...

Reducing economic discrepancies among the regions of the European Union is of constant concern for economic debates and analyses. This is the reason why convergence represents a crucial issue of intense research since the early 1990s. Although valuable progress has been achieved with respect to...

Given the partial success of the Lisbon Strategy, it has become of paramount importance to perform a thorough critical analysis of the nature of the objectives set by the newly-concocted Europe 2020 Agenda. Hence, amid the difficult times the European Union is facing, the fulfilment of this...

The current paper analyzes, in a benchmarking approach, how the Eastern Partnership group of countries, namely Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are performing, compared with Romania and Bulgaria, the last two countries that have joined the European Union, in 2007, but...

Given the partial success of the Lisbon Strategy, it has become of paramount importance to perform a thorough critical analysis of the nature of the objectives set by the newly-concocted Europe 2020 Agenda. Hence, amid the difficult times the European Union is facing, the fulfilment of this...

Reducing economic discrepancies among the regions of the European Union is of constant concern for economic debates and analyses. This is the reason why convergence represents a crucial issue of intense research since the early 1990s. Although valuable progress has been achieved with respect to...