Although EU institutions and policies create additional opportunities for national interest groups to influence policy-making, not all domestic interest groups make use of the extended niche that is provided by the EU. Lagging Europeanization has often been explained by resource-based accounts, i.e. the wealth of interest groups determines their ability to Europeanize. This article explores an ...

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The importance of using technical progress factors in agriculture varies from one country to another and the influences of these factors on yields and agricultural production are essential. Thus, in this paper we considered necessary and appropriate to achieve the dynamic analysis of the main factors of technical progress in agriculture referring to agricultural technical endowment, fertilizers...

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The paper deals with meeting the required level of measures to satisfy the EU Directive on data protection in a data warehouse system. A data warehouse is an integrated and a time-varying collection of data from many diverse and heterogeneous sources, used primarily by business users.

Indication value-based pricing (IBP) has been proposed in the United States as a tool to capture the differential value of drugs across indications or patient groups and is in the early phases of implementation. In Europe, no major country has experimented with IBP or is seriously discussing its use. We assessed how the reimbursement and pricing environment allows for IBP in seven European coun...