The Journal of Common Market Studies, it seems to me, has always rather revelled, in a very British way, in having an out-of-date title. As they used to say, a well-dressed man is always at least ten years behind the latest fashion. Of course, JCMS does not need to worry about that – everyone knows who you are. But you are lucky that you are not called the ‘Journal of Coal and Steel Community S...

River basins in many Eastern and Southern Mediterranean countries suffer from water scarcity due to rapid demographic and economic development, urbanization, industrialization, tourism, and inefficient agricultural activities, which is often the dominant water user. The Gediz River Basin along the Aegean coast of Turkey demonstrates the entire range of prototypical water management problems and...

Abstract Objectives This article introduces a series of articles on antibiotic consumption in the community between 1997 and 2017, which provide an update previous covering periods 1997–2003 1997–2009. Methods In this article, differences participating countries, ATC/DDD classification system, data collection, validation analysis current are described. Results series, 33 European countries prov...

The often-posed claim that Europe is a pessimistic continent is not unjustified. In 2012, 53 percent of European Union (EU) citizens were pessimistic about their country. Surprisingly, however, societal pessimism has received very little scientific attention. In this article, we examine to what extent political and economic factors drive societal pessimism. In terms of political factors, we exp...

INTRODUCTION The European Union is giving increasing emphasis to research as a driver for innovation and economic development. The European collaborative study PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe) investigated the funding and structures of public health research at national level in European countries. METHODS Background materials were prepared for national public health as...

The aim of this article is to determine the level and the nature of the quantitative and qualitative factors' influences on development of the banking sector and their influence on economic growth in South-East European countries (SEE). We used a OLS model with panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE) and panel data from six transition countries for the period 1999-2006. We measure the qualitativ...

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...

STORK is a co funded European Commission Large Scale Pilot programme under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme. The policy framework most relevant to STORK is the “i2010 – A European Society for growth and employment” initiative, which has classified eID interoperability as a key factor for economic growth and employment in the EU. STORK is possibly the largest eID project in Europe in...