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...

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...

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...

Kiel Institute President Gabriel Felbermayr sees polarisation within the EU as a warning signal.

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...

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...

With twelve new members the decision making in the European Union via intergovernmental cooperation will become ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common institutional...