Skills and the competitiveness of EU manufacturing industries (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer, pp. 1-11) Keywords … skills, competitiveness, manufacturing, EU Countries covered European Union Topics Industry; International Trade and … monthly data on the economic situation in ten transition countries, 2005-2008 (pp. 20-23) Countries covered Bulgaria, Czech …

Havlik, Michael Landesmann and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 2-6) Agricultural imports from LDCs a comparison across EU-27 Member States … of SMEs’ funding obstacles – a comparative analysis of EU-15 and NMS-13 countries (by Sandra Leitner and Marek Rojicek …

Do High-Skilled Third-Country (i.e. Non-EU) Migrants Contribute to Productivity Growth? In order to foster innovation … 13 old EU Member States and examines the role of high-skilled third-country (HS-TC) migrants for innovation – as captured …-TC migrants are relatively less productive than HS EU migrants. Results for selected individual industries are more mixed, with …

limited sanctions response, particularly from the EU, while a full invasion would entail major sanctions from the West as a … the EU -is unlikely given the sizeable negative impact it would have on both sides. Aside from energy, the most painful … accelerate EU moves towards energy diversification away from Russia. However, the economic impact of this on Russia will be …

Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences … between developed EU and less developed African and Middle East countries have not declined that much and continue to drive … mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong contrast between the population of the EU (ageing and shrinking rapidly) and …

the back of high energy prices. If the EU were to ban imports of energy from Russia, or if Russia itself limits or stops … gas exports to the EU, the trade impacts would be much more significant. The medium- and long-term outlook for Ukraine … integration with the EU. For Russia, the economy will lose its access to Western technological transfer, and this cannot be fully …