-off between social expenditures per capita and absolute poverty from recent EU-Commission and UNDP data (% of the population below … 10 Euros, 5 Euros, and 13 Dollars a day, as well as % of the population dying before age 60). Among the older EU-15 …

EU enlargement is supposed to entail profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there … is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, corresponding empirical results are … border regions in the EU27 since they are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by integration …

question whether they realise above average integration benefits. The empirical analysis concerns integration effects in the EU …

European Union (EU) to the Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs). This analysis presents several methodological improvements …. Our results show how the impact of EU preferences in agriculture and fishery granted to SMCs is positive and significant … and better evaluated using impact evaluation techniques. We also assess the functional form of the relationship between EU …