governments or parties (e.g., in Italy, France, Sweden, Austria, Hungary or The Netherlands), should the danger of an EU … intra-EU migration flows could be one of the outcomes of the unravelling of supply chains as a result of the COVID epidemic … and geopolitical considerations, such as the EU's wish to diminish trade dependence from China and Russia. The ground is …

The slow pace of European Union enlargement to the Western Balkans can be attributed to EU member countries losing … have failed to make visible progress in meeting the criteria for EU accession The income per capita convergence of Western … Balkan countries towards the German level (as a proxy for the EU) has been rather slow, with some acceleration in the second …

the EU membership trade effects from a standard structural gravity model specification. These estimates are used in a meta …-regression analysis to shed light on potential sources for heterogeneity in the obtained EU membership trade effects. The meta study … reveals a crucial role of domestic trade flows for the effect size of the EU membership trade effect estimate. The estimated …

Eastern European countries. In addition to our main analysis, we exploit exogenous variation from EU enlargement to show that … citizens from countries that became part of the EU report significantly less discrimination than non-EU immigrants. …

The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU promotes not only a common market but also economic, social and territorial … of the EU to promote, inter alia, cohesion in cross-border regions, administrative and legal obstacles still hinder the … development of joint cross-border living areas, affecting 150 million EU citizens. To overcome these obstacles, the EU has …