well as between fiscal policy of the EU countries and the other OECD countries. In particular, the EU countries react in a …-cyclical. However, ex ante fiscal policy is a-cyclical for the EU countries and counter-cyclical for the other countries. …

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision …-making efficiency and the distribution of power in the EU's leading decision making body the Council of Ministers. We compare two …

of EU regional initiative. …

implementation in the EU are determined. We find that (1) implemented budgetary adjustment falls systematically short of planned …

a dynamic voting process into a cooperative voting game and uses the EU as an example. We propose a probabilistic … what extent the development of the decision-making procedures on the EU has changed the division of power among its main …

The paper analyses the proposal to create a hard core of EU countries committed to deeper and faster integration by … the whole EU, Japan and the United States. The second uses principal component and cluster analyses to investigate whether … these five countries represent a homogenous grouping vis-à-vis the other EU members. …