This book reports on the possible content, feasibility and economic implications of Ukraine and the EU undertaking a free trade agreement (FTA) to follow on from Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The authors are a group of EU...

The overall scientific objective of this project was to identify and explain in a crosscountry analysis the impact of deepening and widening of economic integration on regional structural change and cohesion in current European Union (EU) member...

This study has been prepared within the framework of the ENEPO project (EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development) coordinated by CASE, financed within the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission. The study...

The European Monetary Union (EMU, will influence the interregional division of labour and will affect the susceptibility of regions to asymmetric shocks, and the core-periphery divide of regional incomes. Centralto this subject is the question of how...

The member states of the European Union have given up sovereignty in quite a number of policy areas and subjected themselves to joint decisionmaking at the European level. Policy instruments are no longer available nationally in many policy areas,...

Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past. Now it has...

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. In addition, an increasing integration of the national economies into the global economy has affected these...