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The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison. In 23 of the 36 countries there was a significant increase in regional inequality during the...
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Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by a dramatic change in … theoretically and empirically whether European integration as such can explain these developments. Using a numerical simulation … model with 9 countries and 90 regions, theoretical predictions are derived about how various patterns of integration may …
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Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show … order to examine the impact of European and international integration on the regions, the paper develops a numerical … simulation model with nine countries and 90 regions. Eastward extension of European integration is beneficial for old as well as …
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Reichweite und Gestalt europaweiter politischer Institutionen und der Größe und Vielfalt von "Europa" als politisches System …
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integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the … ways and means by which European integration unfolds. The quasi-authoritarian emergency politics deployed in the euro … contend themselves with a revival of conventional integration theories and thus turn a blind eye to normatively critical …
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The article analyzes the integration of Central and Eastern European (CEE) trade unions in European policy-making. With …
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culmination) of a series of previous policy changes that have led over the last five decades to greater economic integration among … integration, the euro's impact on trade disappears. Moreover, a significant part of the trend in European trade integration is …
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This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....
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The member states of the European Union have given up sovereignty in quite a number of policy areas and subjected themselves to joint decisionmaking at the European level. Policy instruments are no longer available nationally in many policy areas, including monetary policy, trade policy, the...
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Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called Bolkestein directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods that...
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