In October of 1995, the Austrian federal government was not able to agree on a budget proposal for 1996; as a result, the coalition government broke up, and general elections were called for December 1995. A provisional budget will be in effect until the late winter or spring of 1996 when it might...

In the middle of April 1994, representatives of 116 participating countries and of the EU signed the trade agreement which concludes the GATT's Uruguay round. This marks the completion of the most ambitious project on liberalizing world trade. Negotiations began as early as 1986 in Punta del...

The most crucial arguments in favor of European integration cannot be quantified: some of these arguments are simply beyond economic analysis. Reducing pro and contra arguments in the integration debate to percentage points of gross national product or to tenths of percentage points of the...