Die Beiträge in diesem Band sind das Ergebnis eines Workshops der unter dem Titel: "East European Integration and New Division of Labour in Europe" am 10. und 11. April 1997 am Institut Arbeit und Technik in Gelsenkirchen stattgefunden hat. Zielsetzung war eine kritische Diskussion zu den...

The paper discusses similarities and differences between past EU binding internal liberalization "across the board" in the industrial sector and present so-called voluntary sectoral liberalization of member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). While both approaches are...

The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU-15, and has especially brought along big challenges and important opportunities both for the new countries and for the ""Old Europe"". This is the main idea...