Part I: The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Context -- 1. Introduction: Resilience and the Eastern Partnership—What Relevance for Policies?- Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Gilles Rouet -- 2. Increasingly Geopolitical: EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood in the Age of Multiple Crises- Cristian Nitoiu --...

The EMU debt crisis that emerged in 2010 has identified a group of Southern countries, especially Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, as low performers exhibiting several seriousmacroeconomic imbalances, and it has also highlighted that EU integration experiencedby Eastern European countries...

Inthis new work, Pascariu and Duarte, along with an international group ofacclaimed scholars, delve into key challenges currently facing the EuropeanUnion. They Analyze the effect ofperipherality across the EU regions which will be of great interest to thosecountries and regions facing a process...

The unequal distribution of economic activities, transposed in economic, social and territorial disparities is the general characteristic of the European economy. Gaps increased in the context of European Union (EU) enlargement towards Eastern and Central Europe and of the economic crisis, thus...