The paper evaluates the impact of the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 on the economic performance of border regions located … EU Eastern enlargement not taken place. Results show that, overall, the EU Eastern enlargement 2004 had no statistically … from the EU enlargement, for the Italian region, the effect is negative. This heterogeneity seems to be driven by …

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low … substantially before and after the 2004 EU enlargement, and as a consequence of the recent economic downturn. We analyse 1) trends …

affected by "discrimination". Comparing the effects for workers from East European EU member countries with those for other …" is found for immigrants from non-EU states in Eastern Europe. To analyse the importance of segregation into sectors, we …

(EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a …

present, however, notwithstanding recent enlargements, the intra-EU trade share on total EU exchanges is declining while the … between EU and Russia is rather intricate due to the overlapping of several scenarios. On the one hand there are the growing … interconnections between EU and Russia which have led to envisage the creation of a Common Economic Space or even of a free trade zone …