The article shows that reservations in Europe against Turkey's future membership are really groundless. A Muslim nation already was a member of the EU: Algeria. When Algeria was still a colony, it joined the EU (then: European Economic Community) on January 1st 1958 as a French "Departement",...

The book, which is available on-line, evaluates the performance of the EU accession countries in the field of social security; disabled people and social inclusion; youth, family and generation policy matters, health policy and veterinary policies. The overall positive evaluation of the maturity...

Die Unterschiede im Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftssystem zwischen den USA und Europa waren zwar immer ausgeprägt, gewinnen aber seit dem Zusammenbruch des gemeinsamen Gegenmodells in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion und in Osteuropa und dem Lissabon-Prozess zunehmend an Bedeutung. Letztens hat diese...

The European Union’s center-piece of economic policy making is the Lisbon process, which tries to make Europe the most competitive economic region in the world economy by 2010. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso recently presented a Centre for European Reform (CER) study that...

If Europe wants to fulfill it’s Lisbon agenda of catching up with the United States, it must overhaul its pension systems and introduce some form or other of private pension funds, which are a major force in financing technological advance in the capitalist world economy today. Our...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact on the banking system from the accession of Macedonia in the EU. EU enlargement is a complex process with enormous impact on the economy of the new member countries. The financial system of the new member country, and the banking system as a part of...

Together with the IMF and the World Bank, the EMU is the biggest monetary project in the history of mankind. Its goals are reduction of trade costs between its member-states, increase in the convergence in their relations and their economic growth. The main pillars of the monetary institutions...