current debate on the EU budget for the period 2007 to 2013 and introduces five scenarios. The first is identical to the … European Commission's proposal; the second is based on reducing the budget to 1% of the EU's GNI as proposed by the six major … a '1% EU GNI'; however, the expenditures for providing 'EU-wide value added' are left unchanged and it is envisaged that …

led to the proposal of a comprehensive review of the EU budget in 2008/2009. This provides an opportunity for initiating … fundamental reforms of the revenue side of the EU budget. One course of reform relies on the principle that the 'own resources … disadvantage that the potentially available resources would ensure only a rather small proportion of the revenues of the EU budget …

On a global level, the EU emerges as the most important foreign direct investor, also if considering extra-EU … investments only. This reflects the capability and propensity of EU firms to internationalize their business activities. A joint …-2008 respectively, to reveal several facts and trends concerning the competitive position of EU firms in the BRICs and vice versa. The …

This report tracks the major geo-economic and geo-strategic ruptures between the EU and Russia on the future patterns … of gas supplies and shipping routes to the EU and the Western Balkans. It identifies the objectives and interests of the … actors involved in this struggle Russia, the EU, various EU members, the countries of the Caspian Basin (Kazakhstan …

Policy frameworks of the IMF, the World Bank, and the EU are discussed in order to come up with criteria of … macroeconomic and financial stability and sustainability for Future Member States of the EU (candidate and potential candidate … countries). The key deficiency of the EU policy framework is that it lacks a short-term stabilization policy model and …

the EU, as a sound and sustainable macroeconomic framework is a necessary, but by itself not a sufficient precondition for …

This report is concerned with analysing, for eight EU Member States with lagging regions, the main structural reforms …

This report focuses on investment in eight EU Member States and their lagging regions. Additionally, the analysis … investment needs and b) a comparative analysis of the lagging regions with more prosperous EU-28 regions that had similar …

This report presents the findings of three case studies of lagging regions in the EU to deepen the findings of wiiw … characteristics, they are at the same time to some extent representative of other EU regions that share similar characteristics and …