Impaling Dracula: How EU Accession Empowered Civil Society in Romania

EU Public Policies and the Participation of Organized Civil Society

Europeanization, Framing Competition and Civil Society in the EU and Turkey

This paper examines the relationship between the European Union and Turkey with a particular focus on the Europeanization of Turkish civil society. The Occupygezi movement has revealed that a more comprehensive approach needs to be taken in order to understand the deep socio-political drives underpinning the Turkish bid for EU membership. Understanding the broader processes of Europeanization i...

Eugene Nivorozhkin: Financing choices of firms in EU accession countries

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FDI Penetration and Net Trade in the EU Accession Countries

This paper explores the link between foreign direct investment and trade in a panel of four countries that will accede to the European Union in 2004: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. We augment standard demand-side export and import equations with a measure of FDI penetration. We compare results based on a panel mean-group estimator with a fixed-effects panel model that allows ...

Prospective Trade in the EU Accession and Associated Countries

Examining the trade prospects for the new European Union (EU) member states and the EU associated partner countries is an important issue in the context of European eastward enlargement and greater economic integration with its immediate neighbours. An out-ofsample approach to projecting trade volumes for twenty countries of interest is adopted using a gravity equation for a panel data set of b...