the determinants of current account imbalances of EU Member States. As the results show, price competitiveness is …

current account deficits provoked fears of contagious sovereign defaults. The EU responded to the subsequently escalating …

The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has … compensating transfers by using the right of withdrawal: It might threaten to leave the EU if the compensation is denied. Are … as high as in the case of unanimity. In practise, the EU will offer compensating transfers depending on how credible a …

In the light of the current economic debt crisis within the Euro zone, the heterogeneity of EU members has becoming … economic integration with the other EU members. Despite the common use of the term "European integration", neither a uniform … integration are hard to quantify, thereby making it almost impossible to argue objectively whether an individual EU member state …

creating a homogeneous group. They differ in the length of EU membership, income per capita, membership and non-membership of …

Seit Juni 2013 wird das transatlantische Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA verhandelt. Die Kritiker … einzelnen EU-Länder weitaus weniger wichtig sind als ihre wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen innerhalb der EU. …Since June 2013, negotiations have been underway between the U.S. and the EU on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment …