-tariff barriers. We find that, for the particular case of the EU, it is not possible to strictly discriminate between horizontal or …

the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …

Eastern Partnership attempted to further political stability and economic development by liberalizing trade between the EU and … establishing political democracy and human rights in key countries. In response, the EU increased the emphasis in the ENP on … among the countries of the region as well as between each such country and the EU. Using a panel gravity model of trade …

the world (EU, Latin America and Middle East). We find that, despite large differences in trade patterns, measures of …

-half of the growth in trade over the period 1999-2003 and are therefore a major driving force of the EU Single Market …

use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration ows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period 2002 …-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration ows to labor … model and use these estimates, as well as the observed changes in tariffs, to quantify the effects from the EU enlargement …