current account deficits provoked fears of contagious sovereign defaults. The EU responded to the subsequently escalating …

The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has … compensating transfers by using the right of withdrawal: It might threaten to leave the EU if the compensation is denied. Are … as high as in the case of unanimity. In practise, the EU will offer compensating transfers depending on how credible a …

In the light of the current economic debt crisis within the Euro zone, the heterogeneity of EU members has becoming … economic integration with the other EU members. Despite the common use of the term "European integration", neither a uniform … integration are hard to quantify, thereby making it almost impossible to argue objectively whether an individual EU member state …

creating a homogeneous group. They differ in the length of EU membership, income per capita, membership and non-membership of …

-zelnen EU-Mitgliedsländern unterschiedlich stark ist. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird daher ein Integrationsindex vorgestellt, der … den Integrationsgrad der einzelnen Mitgliedstaaten mit den übrigen EU-Partnern bestimmt und auch seine Veränderungen im … den Sub-indizes zeigt sich, dass die Rangordnung der EU-Staaten hinsichtlich ihrer Integrationstiefe zwischen den …

the economic success of EU states statistically tangible. Firstly, we show in descriptive illustrations that the … theoretically expected characteristics of small countries clearly apply to the current EU states. From the theoretical perspective … influenced by factors other than population size, such as the duration of EU membership, the level of economic development …