by a number of spectacular changes. In the course of the recent enlargement immigration to some EU15 countries from the … CEECs has become remarkable. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the EU27 countries are net immigration countries. In face of … and GDP per capita levels in the 2000s. In this paper we use data from the Eurostat Regio Database and estimate whether EU …

techniques is needed. They also suggest some implications for EU Regional Policy that should be taken into account. …

in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs … within countries at finer scales (NUTS3 level) rather than between EU countries. Furthermore, these findings hold when we …

convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical evidences from the EU history have confirmed this process. Intuitively …, some authors could consider that current crisis seems to affect convergence in EU. Contrary, how our analysis demonstrated … the period of last decade a significant convergence in EU, in matter of GDP per capita. However, differences in matter of …