This thematic evaluation on Support to Economic Governance in Enlargement and Neighbourhood Countries has been carried out from January 2016through mid-2017. The global objective of the evaluation is to provide findings and recommendations to assist DG NEAR in streamlining its approach to...

This paper reviews institutional and structural challenges in countries preparing for EU membership, i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Sound institutions and solid economic structures are not only the...

Nach der Erklärung von Artikel 50 wird es ernst. Während die kurzfristigen Brexit-Wirkungen auf das UK bisher erstaunlich gering blieben, sind die deutschen Exporte in das UK seit dem Referendum deutlich gesunken. Damit dürfte das Gros der Kurzfrist-Wirkungen aber bereits bewältigt sein,...

The free movement of people and of workers (intra EU mobility) is one of the corner-stones of the EU. It has overwhelmingly benefitted the citizens of the EU member states both in the countries of work and in the countries of origin. Earlier apprehensions on crowding out of less educated workers...