Demographical Ageing of the EU Member States’ Societies

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

The Global Health Policies of the EU and its Member States: A Common Vision?

Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...

eu enlargement: the new member states and agricultural trade potentials

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Towards a general “Europeanization” of EU Member States’ energy policies?

It is often argued that energy policy is too fragmented across EU Member States and should be “Europeanized” to pave the way towards an efficiently organized European power system, which rest on the internal market for energy and a pan-European super-grid. However, this view neglects i) the factual heterogeneity of European energy policies in terms of harmonization and centralization, ii) econo...

Volatility of public spending in EU Member States

Executive summary This paper discusses volatility in general government spending in EU countries. While this volatility has on average declined over time when measured by its standard deviation, a large cross-country variation in the degree of volatility can be observed. Estimates covering all EU-27 countries indicate that high volatility tends to be associated with fast growing government spen...