This paper addresses the question of macroeconomic integration in the Asian Pacific region. Economically, the analysis …

, structural reform and economic integration. Focusing on the ongoing integration process in the euro area and the EU, it analyses … the economic integration that has taken place since the 1980s and which is marked by the advent of the euro and the …

European countries are becoming increasingly politically integrated and the process of integration has accelerated in … recent years. But how much social integration is there within the Community? This article supplies a definition of European … social integration, and thereby lays down the foundations necessary for answering this important sociological question …

Die europäische Integration, die in den 1950er Jahren einsetzte, zielt auch darauf ab, die Wirtschaftskraft der … Konvergenz in eine Divergenz um. Die südeuropäischen Krisenländer fielen zuletzt deutlich zurück. Auch in der nahen Zukunft ist … nicht mit einer wieder einsetzenden Konvergenz zu rechnen. Wirtschaftspolitische Reformen in den einzelnen Ländern sind …

westdeutschen Niveaus und die Konvergenz stockt. Es fehlen Großunternehmen, Firmenzentralen und wirtschaftsstarke Ballungsräume. …

The European Social Model (ESM) is increasingly becoming a model of integration policy. The idea is based on a … social cohesion and will demand it. Together with the diverse integration advantages of enlargement, a successful catching …