Countries covered MENA, CESEE Topics Other The EU and Russia both important for Ukraine (by Vasily Astrov; pp. 8-9) Keywords … Ukraine, trade association, Russia, EU Countries covered Ukraine, Russia, EU Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and …-13) Keywords Yugoslavia break-up, post-Yugoslav countries Countries covered Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro …

, nine answers (by Vasily Astrov, Vladimir Gligorov and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 6-7) EU cohesion policy the case of Estonia (by …

Cohesion policy - does it have a future? (by S. Richter; pp. 1-2) Keywords cohesion, transfers, EU Countries covered … European Union, New EU Member States Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy; Regional Development; Other The great crisis and … covered New EU Member States, Wider Europe, SEE, CEE, East Asia Topics International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI; Sectoral …

current debate on the EU budget for the period 2007 to 2013 and introduces five scenarios. The first is identical to the … European Commission's proposal; the second is based on reducing the budget to 1% of the EU's GNI as proposed by the six major … a '1% EU GNI'; however, the expenditures for providing 'EU-wide value added' are left unchanged and it is envisaged that …

led to the proposal of a comprehensive review of the EU budget in 2008/2009. This provides an opportunity for initiating … fundamental reforms of the revenue side of the EU budget. One course of reform relies on the principle that the 'own resources … disadvantage that the potentially available resources would ensure only a rather small proportion of the revenues of the EU budget …