Romania's European Union accession in 2007 has resulted in a substantial reduction of the formal barriers to integration with the European Union Single Market. This study takes stock of the progress by benchmarking product market policies in Romania to those of European Union countries, as...

This study examines the impact of the introduction of the euro on firm performance of nonfinancial firms listed on the Croatian capital market. Croatia adopted the euro as its sole legal tender on January 1, 2023, becoming the 20th member of the euro area. While the macroeconomic effects of euro...

The European integration process started with the aim of reducing the differences in income and/or living standards between the participating countries over time. To achieve this, a certain alignment of institutions and structures was seen as a necessary precondition. While the goal of this...

This study discusses the challenges that economic policy-makers in Europe have to cope with, in order to ensure an economically prosperous and institutionally stable community of Member States of the European Union (EU). At the analytical level, we not only document a process of...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the plausibility of four different mid-term paths of development of the European Union (EU): first, a political union or a European state; second, a differentiated and flexible integration of the polity; third, a covert and deepening integration of...

This paper studies the conceptualization and quantification of 'competitiveness' within the main policy coordination framework of the EU, the European Semester. This topic warrants attention since 'competitiveness' is not only of central importance in the European policy discourse, but also a...

Der Beitrag beschreibt und bewertet die wirtschafspolitische Maßnahmen, die auf EU-Ebene als Reaktion auf die Coronapandemie beschlossen wurden oder sich noch in politischen Beratungen befinden. Die EZB hat schnell reagiert, die Liquiditätsunterstützung massiv ausgeweitet und die Regeln für...