This survey states that the overall economic impact of EU enlargement is likely to remain small. The new EU member states are very small compared with the u0091oldu0092 EU countries and most economic integration has already taken place. The paper examines the reasons why only 42 per cent of the...

The paper summarises the overall situation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the new EU member states from a global perspective. It provides a set of indicators to benchmark the introduction of new technologies into education and everyday life. The data gathered by the...

The paper explores the economic implications of the possible Turkish accession to the European Union. It focuses on three main changes associated with Turkish membership: (i) accession to the internal European Market; (ii) institutional reforms in Turkey triggered by EU membership; and (iii)...

This paper deals with the discussion in Germany about job exports to the low-cost Eastern European members of the EU. It states that the critics of EU enlargement in Germany have overlooked that Eastern and Western Europe strongly differ in their capital formation and productivity levels. The...

The collapse of the communist regime in Central and South-Eastern Europe gave way to sweeping economic and socio-political changes, marked by the conversion of centrally planned state economies into market economies, political liberalisation and democratisation, as well as to integration into...

The paper, produced by the wildlife trade monitoring network, Traffic, on the eve of EU enlargement urges the old and new member states to increase their efforts to stem the illegal trade in wildlife. Experts fear that traders will exploit the enlargement of the European Union to launder...

The paper explores the role of alliances in Central European countries from the perspective of growth of enterprises. The analysis is based on a comparative overview of 26 case studies of enterprises in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary which have alliances with foreign partners. Most of...

This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, focusing particularly on the processes of firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also, decompositions of productivity change into components consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and...

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 member states of the European Union (EU-15) that...