Following the Eastern EU enlargement and debates on the Constitutional Treaty, the Black Sea region has received increasing political, public and scholarly attention. This study examines the prospects for and the forms of economic , sectoral/thematic and political cooperation in the area from...

Readmission agreements have been used for a long time as a key means of combating illegal immigration, whether at bilateral, intergovernmental or Community level. To date, six agreements have been signed between the European Community and its Member States, for the one part, and third countries,...

The analysis of transatlantic EU – US relations constitutes a new field at the intersection of international relations and European integration studies. This essay discusses recent contributions to this debate emphasizing “soft” cultural and institutional factors rather than “hard”...