Main description: Der Wirtschaftspolitische Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik hatte für seine Jahrestagung 2007 das Rahmenthema "Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung" gewählt. Der hier vorliegende Tagungsband dokumentiert die wesentlichen Aussagen und Ergebnisse dieser Zusammenkunft.Hierzu...

The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 heterogeneous member states. A third possibility is now offered by...

The paper adresses the need for more flexibility in the integration process of the European Union after its recent eastward enlargement. Due to the increasing number of decision-makers and the increasing heterogeneity of economic structures, financial constraints, societal preferences, and...