The European economic integration has been an ongoing process for nearly a half century. This article discuss initially the concept of integration and then gives an overall assessment of the development of integration on various areas. Evidence points to a remarkable process towards monetary...

The European Commission and the EU Member States, pushed by global realities, made an attempt in 2006 and 2007 to come up with a new, effective view of the energy sector in the context of the European Union and European integration. This attention was also supported by the increased interest of...

Im international angelegten IAB-Forschungsprojekt ReLOC - Research on Locational and Organisational Change - werden die Auswirkungen der Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen in Tschechien auf die Arbeitsmärkte in beiden Ländern untersucht. Analysiert werden u. a. die Effekte der...

This contribution develops a theory on the impact of differentiation on integration and unity among EU member states and discusses empirical evidence from four policy areas. According to the theory, the centripetal effects of closer cooperation among willing EU members on initially unwilling...

This paper investigates patterns of manufacturing location in the context of increased economic integration in Central and East European countries. Using regional data for the period 1990-1999, we identify and compare patterns and determinants of manufacturing location in five European Union...

Durch die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sind einschneidende Veränderungen im ökonomischen Governance-System der EU ausgelöst worden. Die im Zuge der Krise ergriffenen Maßnahmen werden hier kritisch untersucht. Dabei stellt der Autor fest, dass die Veränderungen den Empfehlungen des 'Old...

Globalization has attained a prominent place on the sociological agenda, and stratification scholars have implicated globalization in the increased income inequality observed in many advanced capitalist countries. But sociologists have given much less attention to a different but increasingly...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...