The financial crisis has shown the inadequacy of financial market regulation and supervision in the EU. As the integration of Europe’s financial market progressed, market participants continued to be supervised nationally and the scope of regulation remained mainly limited to microprudential...

The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...