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Title: Real Exchange Rates in Central and Eastern Europe: What Scope for the Underlying Fundamentals?
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study the fundamental macroeconomic determinants of both the CPI and the PPI-based real effective exchange rate in 5 selected acceding countries from central and eastern Europe, i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper is based on the combination of two approaches widely used for transition economies, namely the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) and the structural VAR. Indeed, a cointegration approach is adopted and the estimated VECM model attempts to connect in a structural way the real effective exchange rate to labor productivity, the relative price of non-tradable goods, public deficit and the current account position. Impulse response functions are subsequently employed to investigate how shock in the underlying fundamentals impact on the effective real exchange rates. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Dufrenot, Gilles | Égert, Balázs
Series Title: Emergent Markets Finance and Trade
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionmacroeconomicsEast Central Europerate of exchange
Subject: European Community financial managementTaxation. Fiscal policyInvestments. Investment policy
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: ECB Decision-making and the Status of the Eurogroup in an Enlarged EMU
Abstract
This paper analyses the link between the forthcoming EU enlargement and selected aspects of EU institutional reforms, namely decision-making rules in the European Central Bank and the status of the Eurogroup. It states that some earlier arguments calling for urgent ECB reform are based on unrealistic assumptions. It concludes that the reform recently adopted by the EU Council as well as the present system, while not free from shortcomings, could provide a workable environment for monetary policy in an enlarged EMU. Additionally, the paper claims that designing efficient institutional solutions for the European Council is also important from the perspective of the new member states, as it might impact their chances for early adoption of the common currency. The paper argues that EMU enlargement would not necessarily undermine the effectiveness of the current rules. The reform proposed by the ECB itself, currently at the stage of ratification by member states, also provides a reasonable framework for monetary policy making in the larger monetary union. Its major drawbacks are rooted in the sphere of intra-EU politics, rather than in economic effectiveness. The design of the current ECB architecture was influenced by the experience of the functioning of the Bundesbank. Since the UK stayed outside the euro-zone, there was much less impact from the practice of direct inflation targeting frameworks steered by a small monetary policy council consisting of monetary policy experts. Such policy culture influences arguably have a strong impact on institutional design. Consequently, one should not expect a major revolution in the decision-making rules of the ECB in the near future. The prospects of EMU enlargement clearly have some impact on the discussion of the future of the Eurogroup and ECOFIN, and on economic policy co-ordination at the level of the euro-zone and of the EU as a whole. However, these discussions are largely driven by other considerations and the positions of major actors are determined by their speci
Author: Paczynski, Wojciech
Series Title: Center for Social and Economic Research / Studies & Analyses; 262
Publisher: Fundacja Naukowa CASE
Year: 2003
ISBN / ISSN / Kat.Nr: 83-7178-318-3
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionEuropean Central BankEEMUmonetary policy
Subject: European Community financial managementCurrency. Monetary policy
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: Nice or bust : The Polish position after the Brussels Summit
Abstract
The paper states that Poland appears determined to maintain its uncompromising position following the failure of the Brussels Summit to reach agreement on the draft constitution. Both the government and opposition are declaring that no compromise is possible other than to wait until at least 2009 before deciding whether to change the Nice voting system. Fears still linger in Poland of a dominant Germany in Europe. And Poland's Government is afraid of the political effects of claims German citizens might make on Poland for property lost since 1939 once the country joins the EU. But in fact, Poland appears to be fighting to retain the ability to block EU decisions - which the Nice formula enables - in order to be able to reverse the stringent financial terms it was handed at the Copenhagen Summit. This combination of a united political class backed by the population and opinion-makers makes it difficult to see what kind of compromise on the constitution can be worked out in the coming months. It appears that Poland is boxing itself into a British position in terms of public opinion: opinion polls show that Polish support for pro-European policies is falling. Last July, 57% per cent of Poles thought that EU membership was a good thing, but that figure slipped to 40% in November 2003. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Bobinski, Krzysztof
Publisher: Unia & Polska Foundation, Warsaw
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionpublic opinionPoland
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaPolitical aspects. Doctrines
Countries Scheme: Poland
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Title: Summit collapse: ongoing crisis for the enlarged EU
Abstract
The paper argues that the collapse of the European Council Summit in Brussels on 13 December 2003 and the failure to agree the new constitutional treaty throws the Union into a major and unprecedented crisis. Attempts by many EU politicians to talk the severity of the crisis down will not help in building a rapid and effective response to it. The Laeken ambitions of a new treaty to ensure a more democratic EU closer to the people, an efficient enlarged EU and a Union with a real voice in global affairs, lie in ruins for now. And this is indeed a crisis about enlargement, since it was the new EU of 25 that, in an unprecedented manner, failed to find a compromise to finalise the two years of work spent drawing up the constitutional treaty draft. Time will tell if the current crisis is a real turning point in the Union's development or if, in the end, it will be seen as a damaging, messy but ultimately surmounted crisis. The real losers for now are political relations in the new EU; public opinion; EU debate; democracy; and the EU's role in the world. Losses will be greater still if the new treaty is never agreed. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Hughes, Kirsty
Contributer: Centre for European Policy Studies
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionpublic opiniontreatyconstitutional reality
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaEuropean Community treaties and agreements
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: The Czech reaction to the IGC failure - disillusion or indifference?
Abstract
The paper examines the position of the Czech Government at the final session of the Intergovernmental Conference (ICG) on 12 December 2003 in Brussels. The Czech Government was keen to show that the Czechs did not have any "red lines" in the negotiations. The issue of full representation in the Commission which earlier had seemed to be the priority on the Czech agenda was suddenly off the table, and Czech Prime Minister, Vladimir Spidla, announced that it was a priority to get a deal on voting. The Czech delegation tabled its own proposal, suggesting that there should be a parity between the Member States and their populations in the Council (either 50%-50%, 55%-55%, 60%-60%). But the Italian Presidency did not take up this proposal despite the fact that it enjoyed some support of other Member States. Mr Spidla´s intention was to make his peers understand that the Czech Republic had the intention of joining a "core Europe" should a "two-speed Europe" emerge. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Kral, David
Publisher: Institut pro Evropskou Politiku Europeum
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionpublic opiniontreatyconstitution
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaEuropean Community treaties and agreements
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: Working conditions in the acceding and candidate countries
Title (other): Conditions de travail dans les pays adhérents et candidats
Abstract
The Foundation carried out its Third European Working Conditions Survey in the 15 Member States of the EU in 2000. In 2001, the survey was extended to cover the 12 acceding and candidate countries and the following year the survey included Turkey. The aim was to provide an overview for EU policymakers as they set about shaping the contours of the new European Union. This document summarises some of the main findings in the survey that was carried out in the 12 acceding and candidate countries in 2001. The 12 acceding and candidate countries comprise a total population of 96 million, with approximately 43 million persons in paid employment. Two countries alone - Poland and Romania - account for over half the total population and workforce of the candidate countries (25 million). There are considerable structural differences to be found in comparison with the EU labour market. For example, a higher proportion of workers are engaged in agriculture: this accounts for one fifth (21%) of all jobs in the acceding and candidate countries, in contrast to only one twentieth (5%) in the EU. Conversely, the services sector is less important in the acceding and candidate countries, accounting for 47% of all jobs, compared to 66% in the EU. This last fact has a bearing on the numbers of employees and self-employed workers in the workforce. In the acceding and candidate countries, 77% of workers are employees (compared to 83% in the EU), with 3% of these on temporary employment agency contracts (2% in the EU). Until recently, such contracts were unheard of in the former communist countries. It will be interesting to monitor the evolution of this kind of work in the future, given the recent rapid growth. A higher proportion of workers in the acceding and candidate countries hold down a second job (10%) than in the EU (6%). They also devote more time to their second job, on average 17.8 hours a week. Finally, the average age of workers in the acceding and candidate countries is higher: over half of all workers (51%) are above t
Author: Paoli, Pascal | Parent-Thirion, Agnès
Contributer: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publisher: Amt für Amtliche Veröffentlichungen
Year: 2003
ISBN / ISSN / Kat.Nr: 92-897-0224-9 | 92-897-0225-7
Language: en | fr
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: working conditionsemploymentEU expansion
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaEconomic and growth policiesEmployment and unemployment
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: EU Enlargement: not all it's cracked up to be
Abstract
The paper argues that the familiar pro-enlargement arguments deserve a critical examination. It investigates the impact of enlargement on British business; on the prospects for EU reform; and on the accession states themselves. From each perspective, the study finds that the supposed benefits of enlargement are much less than are often claimed. At the same time, there are significant difficulties that have received very little attention in the public debate. The paper cites several downsides to enlargement, such as the threat of further manufacturing job losses; the redistribution of EU structural funds; the expansion of the EU bureaucratic machinery; and the imposition of page after page of EU regulations on the newly liberalised economies of the east. The paper concludes that overall, enlargement is a poor deal for Britain; a poor deal for the EU itself; and a poor deal for the new member states. This is not to say that enlargement is all bad news. There will undoubtedly be some sort of boost to trade (although rather less than is often suggested). [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Walsh, James
Series Title: IoD Policy Paper
Publisher: Institute of Directors
Year: 2003
ISBN / ISSN / Kat.Nr: 1-904520-04-9
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: unemploymentbureaucratizationEU expansionEuropean Structural FundGreat Britain
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaEuropean Community funds and financial instruments. EIBEmployment and unemployment
Countries Scheme: United Kingdom
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Title: Governance, Finance and Capacity : a review of waste management practices in the 12 EU Accession Candidates
Abstract
The report concentrates on two major challenges facing municipalities in the central and eastern European countries: how to meet the strict requirements of EU accession, and how to deal with the rising waste burden.The report was prepared within the framework of the European Commission LOGON II project. In the last two decades, significant progress has been made in the field of waste management in the existing 15 EU member states. Today, policy innovations, coupled with new and improved technologies provide a better spread of options to decision makers. Networks of best practice and organisations with mandates to build capacity at the local level support the development of integrated waste management strategies throughout the EU. Unfortunately, many of these advances have not yet taken root in the 12 EU acession candidate countries. The information presented in this report provides a mixed view of waste management in the EU accession candidates. There are great differences between and often even within candidate countries. There are some recurring deficiencies that are common to all 12 countries to one extent or another. The most striking problem is the failure to communicate. Local authorities rarely communicate with each other, have poor internal co-ordination between municipal departments, and have insufficient systems of consultation with local stakeholder groups. These problems, if left unchecked, will seriously undermine the efforts to implement and enforce environmental legislation. Efficient waste management comes at a cost and this cost is presently too large for most municipalities in the central and eastern European countries. The provisions contained within waste legislation (especially those relating to taxes and charges) do not adequately cover the cost of providing quality waste management. Moreover, despite the influx of foreign aid and investment, most notably from the European Union, the bulk of this money remains tied up at the central level. The result is that too little money filters down
Author: Cameron, Edward
Contributer: Österreichischer Städtebund | CEEC LOGON Project
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: waste managementEU expansionmunicipal budgetEast Central Europe
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaPollutionWaste management
Countries Scheme: Eastern Europe. General Resources
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Title: Europeanization and Political Parties in Accession Countries: The Political Parties of Cyprus
Abstract
The process of what has been labeled Europeanisation has been considered by many scholars as one of the major challenges posed by the external environment on domestic politics. Political parties are forced to deal with it as one that constitutes a fundamental change to their operational context. Duverger sees the development of the EU as a factor that pushes parties at the national level to undertake a genuine revolution similar to the one that "transformed clubs of notables into mass organisations at the turn of the century". The purpose of this paper is to present some insights into how the Europeanisation process has influenced the four main political parties of Cyprus. The first part of this paper looks at patterns of change between continuity and innovation regarding the effect on programmatic policies and organisational structures. The second part addresses the cohesive impact that the process has had on the parties. [Author vide copyright]
Author: Katsourides, Ioannis
Publisher: University of Cyprus
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionEuropeanizationparty systemCyprus
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaPolitical parties. Interest groups
Countries Scheme: Cyprus
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Title: Evolving Structural Patterns in the Enlarging European Division of Labour: Sectoral and Branch Specialisation and the
Potentials for Closing the Productivity Gap
Abstract
The report summarises the results generated in empirical analysis within a larger EU's 5th framework programme for research and development on the determinants of productivity gaps between the current EU-15 and accession states in central and eastern Europe. The focus of research in this part of the project is on sectoral specialization patterns emerging as a result of intensifying integration between the current EU and a selection of six newly acceding economies, namely Estonia, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Slovenia. The report is concerned with the role played by the respective specialisation patterns for the explanation of observed productivity gaps and for the projection of future potentials of productivity growth in central and eastern Europe. For the aggregated level, analysis determines the share of national productivity gaps accountable to acceding countries' particular sectoral patterns, and their role for aggregate productivity growth: in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, sectoral shares of national productivity gaps are considerable and might evolve into a barrier to productivity catch-up. Moreover, past productivity growth was dominated by a downward adjustment in employment rather than structural change. With the industrial sector of manufacturing having been identified as the main source of national productivity gaps and growth, the subsequent analysis focuses on the role of industrial specialisation patterns and develops an empirical model to project future productivity growth potentials. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Stephan, Johannes
Series Title: Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - IWH / Sonderheft; 5/2003
Publisher: Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2003
ISBN / ISSN / Kat.Nr: 3-930963-76-0
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionintegrationproductivitystructural change
Subject: European Community budget and financial managementEconomic and growth policiesEconomic development. Economic growthProductivity. Capital-labour ratio
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: Priorities and Developmental Directions of Polish Migration Policy
Abstract
Poland is slowly transforming into a country attractive to immigrants, mainly from the east. At the same time, while mass westward emigration of Poles is unlikely, Polish migration policy faces various challenges, such as the need to prevent the outflow of specialists sought in western European countries. On the eve of joining the EU, there is an urgent need to Poland to work out the premises and priorities of its migration policy. There should be a single institution tasked with shaping and co-ordinating Poland's migration policy. There should be a parliamentary debate on the priorities of migration policy. Poland should actively join the debates on the common EU migration policy, aiming at ensuring the protection of its future social and economic interests. Poland's migration policy should take into account the protection of the country's human and intellectual potential by creating disincentives to emigration of young people and scientists. In the field of immigration, Poland should introduce quotas for the recruitment of skilled workers and take measures to prevent illegal employment of immigrants. Poland's migration policy should promote immigrants' integration into society. To this end, a campaign should be conducted to regularise the status of the large numbers of foreigners who are now residing in Poland illegally. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Iglicka, Krystyna
Series Title: Instytut Spraw Publicznych / Analyses & Opinions; 13
Publisher: Instytut Spraw Publicznych
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: immigrationEU expansionmigrationmigration policy
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaHuman resourcesAspects of migration
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: On the Role of Labour Market Reform for the Enlargement of a Monetary Union
Abstract
The paper studies the incentives to join a monetary union, and the incentives to reform within a monetary union and within the candidate countries, respectively. It presents some "orders of magnitude" evidence on the size and balance of the incentive effects for joining and being a member, and on the desirability of reform in and out of the existing EMU in Europe. It is found that countries will only want to join a monetary union where there has been sufficient labour market reform, and where labour markets are more flexible than their own. But existing members will want the same properties of their new partners as well. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Hallett, Andrew Hughes | Hougaard Jensen, Svend E.
Series Title: CESifo Economic Studies; 49, 3/2003,
Publisher: Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: labor market policyEU expansionmonetary union
Subject: European Community financial managementCurrency. Monetary policy
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: Elusive solidarity in an enlarged European Union
Abstract
As the EU enlarges, it needs to consider how to promote solidarity between its members. On the one hand, it makes sense for it to strengthen solidarity because it will grow larger and more diverse and will, consequently, have to galvanise support for its system, principles and policies. This does not mean that the EU should duplicate national solidarity measures as the needs of nation states are different from those of persons. Yet counties can still benefit by extending mutual support to each other. On the other hand, solidarity is an expression of kinship. As such, it depends on shared beliefs and acceptance of the political nature of the process of European integration. The growing diversity of the EU will make it more difficult to develop a perception of commonality and "we-feeling". Consequently, strengthened solidarity at an EU-level involves the development or reform of policies or instruments which are either based on an already existing "we-feeling" or which are likely to create it. European merit goods are a case in point. So far and although the EU has been discussing reform of policies, including economic and social cohesion, it is still not taking up the challenge of defining EU solidarity and what may unite EU citizens beyond abstract values. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Hartwig, Ines | Nicolaides, Phedon
Series Title: Eipascope; 2003/3
Publisher: European Institute of Public Administration
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionintegration policysolidarity
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaSociety. Human relations
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: How Different is Eastern Europe?
Title (other): Structure and determinants of location choices by French firms in Eastern and Western Europe
Abstract
The paper examines the determinants of location choices of French multinational firms in eastern and western Europe. The sample includes 1,843 location choices in 19 countries over the years 1980-1999. The results suggest there might be important differences between the two regions of Europe concerning these determinants. Noticeably, agglomeration effects are less strong in central and eastern European countries than in European Union countries. Location decisions are significantly and positively influenced by the institutional quality of the host country. The paper also investigates whether investors consider western Europe and eastern Europe as two distinct groups of potential host countries. It confirms the relevance of an east-west structure in the country location decision and also show that the relevance of this structure decreases as the transition process advances. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Disdier, Anne-Célia | Mayer, Thierry
Series Title: CEPII / Working Paper; 13,2003
Publisher: Centre d'Études Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: investment abroadEU expansionFranceEastern Europelocation factors
Subject: History of the European Communities. European ideaEconomic conditions. Economic structureLocation of industry
Countries Scheme: EASTERN EUROPEFrance
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Title: Progress and Obstacles in the Area of Justice and Home Affairs in an Enlarging Europe
Abstract
This paper assesses the legislative achievements made so far in the objectives set by the Amsterdam Treaty and the Tampere European Council. It explores why a number of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) policy areas have experienced a greater degree of development or convergence than others. The road to establish a genuine area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) is still a long one. The widely held view of these issues as matters of national sovereignty continues to create obstacles to progress in this area. The legislative progress attained so far shows the difficulties of arriving at European policies on, immigration and asylum, as well as the rights of third-country nationals. A low level of convergence and progress towards issues related to freedom in these three areas can be appreciated by looking at the progress of the Tampere scoreboard. Higher levels of trust, flexibility, co-ordination and efficiency, in terms of cost and rapidity of response, are required to overcome these tensions. The right balance between freedom, security and justice needs to be ensured. Security and law enforcement policies need to be developed with freedom as the point of departure. A danger of the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks and the current preoccupation with undocumented / illegal immigration is that a pattern may be established that leads to overly zealous security policies for European society, with adverse effects on the internal cohesion of Europe. In particular, certain minority groups may feel that they are subject to excessive attention by security forces. In addition, it is also perceived that the terrorist attacks in the USA have radically changed perceptions of security in the EU. Undoubtedly, these attacks have provided a new impetus for the development of the AFSJ. The member states' governments, security agencies and public opinion have been made dramatically aware of the extent to which international forms of crime threaten traditional internal security. The AFSJ provides the perf
Author: Apap, Joanna | Carrera, Sergio
Series Title: CEPS working document; 194
Contributer: Centre for European Policy Studies
Year: 2003
ISBN / ISSN / Kat.Nr: 92-9079-448-8
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionfreedomjusticelegislative powersecurity
Subject: European Community treaties and agreementsLaw. Jurisprudence. Legal systemsJudicial system. Judicial law
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: When Should the Central Europeans Join EMU?
Abstract
The paper concludes that accession to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is firmly in the interest of the central and eastern European countries. However, from the perspective of incumbent EMU members' interests, one cannot avoid the conclusion that the arguments are more finely balanced. This especially relates to the slow growing incumbents, who are also likely to become members of the 'core' group. Given the opposing interests between the two sides and the fact that it is impossible to prevent EU members from joining the EMU if they fulfil the Maastricht criteria, we can expect to see an intensified effort by the Commission and certain incumbent Member States to dissuade central and eastern European countries from joining the EMU. There may even be an attempt to return to the idea of tightening the accession criteria, although this would be hard to square with the principle of 'equality between present and future Member States'. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Rostowski, Jacek
Series Title: Centre for Social and Economic Research / Studies & Analyses; 253
Publisher: Centr Social'no Ekonomiceskich Issledovanij v Kyrgyzstane
Year: 2003
ISBN / ISSN / Kat.Nr: 83-7178-308-6
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionEuropean currency systemmonetary unioneconomic union
Subject: European Community financial managementEconomic policy and planningCurrency. Monetary policy
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: The Treaty of Nice and the distribution of votes in the Council - voting power consequences for the EU after the
oncoming enlargement
Abstract
The IGC 2000 had the objective to prepare the European Union for the enlargement. The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the Nice solution of the Council's decision-making rules from the perspective of the decision on the number of candidate countries which should join the EU in 2004, as proposed by the Brussels European Council in October 2002 and approved by the Copenhagen European Council in December 2002. The evaluation is based on the comparison of the Nice solution with all the relevant proposals, which were presented to the IGC 2000. The results bring an assessment of the voting power effect of both the Nice rules and the proposals. The reason for this comparison consists in the fact that these proposals represented the spectrum of approaches considered as plausible, during the last IGC and some of them much earlier. The 10 designated future EU members will be able to fully participate in the next IGC, where these proposals may be picked up again if the question of decision-making rules in the Council is reopened. The question of respective voting power consequences for the enlarged EU should be answered in this context. The evaluation of voting power consequences of individual solutions presented in this study leads to the conclusion that the distribution of voting power in the Council after the Union's enlargement to 25 members will be more even in terms of equitable representation of population of the member countries than most of other solutions proposed to the IGC. However, it is far from optimal as it disadvantages a group of smaller members to a greater degree than it disadvantages the most populous countries. Another conclusion is that the population criterion will not influence the voting power of member states after enlargement and would not be effective in any other dual weighted-majority solution. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Plechanonova, Bela
Series Title: European Integration Online Papers; Vol. 7(2003),6
Publisher: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europaforschung
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionEuropean Council of Ministersmajority rulepolitical science
Subject: European Community institutionsParliamentPolitical science in general
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: Elargissement de l'Union européenne : faits et enjeux maritimes et portuaires
Abstract
The study analyses the characteristics of maritime transport in the 10 countries that will join the EU in 2004. The Baltic ports are regrouping in order to become a corridor for East-West transit. The result of their location is a service dominated by feeder lines, i.e. low volumes and fragmented stopovers distributed over short distances. The service is in general weekly or twice weekly, to and from the ports in the North of the EU or the transhipment ports of Scandinavia. Thus, regional connections and very specialised companies are emerging, such as for example the Northern Container Line (Latvia), almost exclusively dedicated to the transport of Ikea's 65 weekly containers. The Polish and Baltic ports are particularly dependent on their hinterland. For example, one third of Polish exports pass through the Gdynia-Gdansk complex. If Gdansk is Poland's oil port, Gdynia is the pole for "containers and miscellaneous goods" and Szczecin the dry bulk cargo centre. A legacy of the socialist period, the Baltic ports drain on average 44% of the traffic from and to the Commonwealth of Independent States, evaluated at more than 95 million tons. This share rises to even more than 70% for containers, chemicals and oil. For example, 90% of the activity of Tallin, the closest port to Moscow, is concerned with servicing Russia and Belarus; and Ventspils (Latvia) handles 12% of all the petroleum products exported by Russia. These ports are in a fragile position. Russia is putting up intense competition in order to recover part of the traffic. The competition between ports is accentuated even more on the one hand by the "Via Baltica" road project, a Trans-European corridor which will connect Warsaw to Helsinki, and on the other by the Finnish Helsinki-St Petersburg-Moscow link project. Sectoral diversification and the expansion of container traffic seems a possible source of development. In Poland the principal issues at stake are very different. Firstly, they concern the modernisation of infrastructures and land links, a ma
Author: Lacoste, Romuald | Mas, Sylvie | Terrassier, Nicolas
Series Title: Institut Supérieur d'Economie Maritime / Synthese; 54
Publisher: Institut Supérieur d'Economie Maritime
Year: 2003
Language: fr
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: Baltic StatesEU expansionseaMediterranean regionPolandtransportation
Subject: ECSC - Euratom - European Community research centresTransport networksFreight
Countries Scheme: Europe. General Resources
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Title: Preparing for the absorption of the Structural Funds in Poland
Title (other): Critical overview and recommendations
Abstract
The paper calls for an immediate start on the Polish national development plan for the period beyond 2006. The plan must be fundamentally different from the current National development plan for 2004-2006. First of all, it must cover a longer time span and focus on domestic development objectives and circumstances. While it should take into account the evolving EU cohesion policy, it must nevertheless stem from consideration given to Poland's strategic interests. It should give much more priority to economic development and entrepreneurship. It should be based on a domestic structural economic transformation strategy as well as a domestic regional development policy. The intellectual approach to the issue of the EU funds must change. The experience of EU member states shows that it is not as important what percentage of the funds is spent - which is what the Polish government is focusing on - as whether they are spent sensibly. This should be the focus of planners and decision-makers. The system of managing programmes financed under the Structural Funds after 2006 should be decentralised and simplified. 16 and not just one regional development operating programme should be established and provincial authorities should be granted wider executive powers. The organising and legislative work should be intensified in the run-up to May 2004, i.e. the day of Poland's accession to EU membership, so as to best use the EU funds granted for 2004-2006. Changes are particularly needed in the system of public finances, IT and financial spending control systems and administration training. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Grzegorz Grosse, Tomasz | Olbrycht, Jan
Series Title: Institute of Public Affairs / Analyses & Opinions; 7
Publisher: Instytut Spraw Publicznych
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: EU expansionEuropean Structural Fundnational developmentPolandeconomic development (on national level)
Subject: European Community funds and financial instruments. EIBEconomic development. Economic growth
Countries Scheme: Poland
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Title: What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up?
Title (other): The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Abstract
This paper analyses regional growth in eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. It aims to identify the factors behind growth and to investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical factors in a model of economic growth. The key relationships are estimated with spatial econometric tools on empirical data for the period 1995-2000. The paper concludes that it was foreign direct investment and not capital accumulation as such, which was the main driving factor behind regional growth in eastern Europe. Second, there are clear agglomeration advantages and better resources (human capital, research, FDI) in capital areas, which make those regions growth leaders. In addition, EU border regions, where a large share of FDI is registered and intensive cross border relations have established, generally could enjoy higher growth. The location advantage of proximity to EU markets benefits these regions and puts others at a disadvantage. Third, one can observe regional clustering of growth: regions surrounded by high growth areas showed a high growth performance. Evidently, own innovation activity played an insignificant role for regional growth. By contrast technology transfer was the main source of productivity growth in Eastern European regions. Testing the technology gap model with human capital as a conditioning factor, the paper finds that this was a likely way of technology transfer. Above all, however, FDI has to be considered as a main channel of technology spillovers, the more so, if combined with human capital of higher level education. [Urheber s. Copyright]
Author: Tondl, Gabriele | Vuksic, Goran
Series Title: ZEI Working Paper; B03-12
Publisher: Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung
Year: 2003
Language: en
Ressource: Einzelne Berichte, Studien
Keyword: foreign investmentEU expansioneconometricsEastern Europeregional policy
Subject: European Community funds and financial instruments. EIBDevelopment plans. Regions
Countries Scheme: Eastern Europe. General Resources
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