There seems to exist a consensus that transnational labour mobility will help to equalize workers` incomes and domestic product per head between the member countries of a monetary union. However, the t́he new economic geography` which stresses the centrifugal spatial forces of economic activity...

In this paper we argue that, for a group of converging economies of the European Union, participation in the euro area has been associated with easier access to financing by domestic economic agents. Easier access to financing was a significant impulse leading to a sharp increase in households'...

The European Union and 2nd pillar integration : the common foreign and security policy / Meltem Muftuler-Bac -- The European security and defence policy : capabilities and institutions / Gulnur Aybet -- The EU as an international actor : "civilian", "normative" or "military" power? / Yannis A....