The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented at the international symposium of the same name held in Oradea, Romania, on June 4-8, 2013. The studies aim to uncover distances between centre and periphery and their common...

Central and South-East Europe is one of the most complex regions in Europe. This complexity promotes innovative thinking and scientists from the Region have contributed significantly to the progress of human knowledge in the past. At present a lack of funding and modernised structures often...

Ten of the post-communist countries managed to integrate into EU. Which are the subjective outcomes of socio-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate...

Life satisfaction, an overall evaluation of one’s life, is increasingly used as an indicator to guide social policy and to evaluate social change. This measure gives a global assessment of the societal changes effects of transition on average people, filtered through their attitudes and...

The borders of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) today are the result of a complex process conducted decades after the fall of communist regimes in this part of Europe. With the opening towards the west, with the change of political and economic regimes came the implementation of democratic...