Transport in an Integrating Europe: Sustainable Development and Cohesion by Roger Vickerman

“…This is set againstthe pressures arising from EU enlargement. This leads to questions concerning thesustainability of exiting transport policies which place emphasis on mobility. …”
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Romanian legal rules and promotion of tourism in the community by Ion Tutuianu

“…In the context of EU enlargement, was normal and record tourism market development and competition. …”
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Measuring Sustainable Development Effectiveness in EU’s Policies Implementation in Romania by Roxana Damian

“…With the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement, the main incentive for 12 candidate countries - the actual membership - has been ruled out. …”
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Dealing with COVID-19 in the European periphery: between securitization and “gaslighting” by Biljana Vankovska

“…The author seeks to shed light on three particular aspects of the crisis: the (de)securitization process of COVID-19, the geopolitics of the EU enlargement process in the post-corona world, and the Balkan way of dealing with the pandemic. …”
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Introduction to a discussion on the third cohesion report: Policy-relevant research and research-relevant policy by Christer Bengs

“…The report is likely to have a central role in shaping policy discussions on cohesion and regional development related issues for the foreseeable future, not least because it provides a blueprint for European cohesion policy after EU-enlargement in May 2004 and for the next Structural Funds programming period beyond 2006. …”
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Which EU and what for? by Roberto Scaruffi

“… The EU enlargement is inside the historical tendency of continental Europe to be dominated by a German-Russian axis. …”
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How to Exercise Europe’s Power by Zielonka, J

“…In order to make it more effective as an actor on the international scene, the European Union is being urged to reverse its foreign policy priorities. EU enlargement policy has fallen out of grace and many want to see Europe acquire a “normal” foreign policy with a global rather than merely regional reach, significant military means and centralised governance. …”

European Identity and Turkey’s Quest for the EU Membership by Engin I. Erdem

“…In the post-Single European Act period, debates around European identity have intensified, particularly in the context of EU enlargement. The EU’s move to being a supranational political entity in the past two decades has caused serious concerns in some sections of the elite and people across the EU member states. …”
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Gravity model used for the analysis of economic developments by Ion PÂRŢACHI, Elena GONŢA

“…The explanatory variables of economic foreign relations, as inter-state social structure and inter-state political relations, play an important role in this region, namely in the context of the economic transition, and of EU enlargement to the East.The gravity approach followed in the article allows to consider the multilateral resistance, by the introduction of the fixed effects, and the model is estimated by pseudo-Poisson of Maximum Likelihood, that allows to include the null trade flows. …”
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The European Neighbourhood Policy in perspective: context, implementation and impact / Edited by Richard G. Whitman, Stefan Wolff by Nadiia BUREIKO

“…The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) – the EU’s initiative to launch deeper relations between the European Union and its neighbourhood both in the political and economic fields – was developed in the context of 2004 EU enlargement which aimed at materialising Brussels’ aspirations for deeper integration with the surrounding states, the immediate backyard of the EU. …”
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Subtle Europeanisers: Czech and Slovak advocacy and assistance strategy in the Western Balkans by Hronešová, J

“…In unprecedented “big bang” rounds of EU enlargement, eight Central and East European (CEE) countries joined the European Union in 2004; two Eastern Balkan countries, Bulgaria and Romania, in 2007; and the fi rst Western Balkan country, Croatia, became the EU’s 28th member state in July 2013. …”

DETERMINANTS OF INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE OF THE NEW MEMBER STATES by Katarzyna Sledziewska, E. Czarny

“…Though the time series contain the years before the EU enlargement, we mainly focus on the period since the EU-Eastern enlargement (2004-2013). …”
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CHALLENGES AND DILLEMAS WITHIN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Loredana Maria Simionov

“…Every EU enlargement signified a step towards Central and Eastern Europe, therefore, the 2004 „big bang enlargement”, followed by the one in 2007, modified the geopolitical context within the „old continent” and also increased the importance of the European Union regionally, as well as globally. …”
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Political discourse of extreme right in Western Europe: The immigration issue by Grečić Vladimir, Korać Srđan

“…Although the rounds of EU enlargement in 2004 and 2007 have not caused mass migrations within the Union, the political discourse of far right is just focused on immigration policy. …”
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Alice is not missing wonderland the eastward enlargement of the European Union by Prokopijević Miroslav

“…In this paper I will try to show that the EU enlargement from 2004 is not a good economic move for eight newcomers from Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). …”
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COMMON DYNAMICS IN THE EU INTEGRATION PATH OF THE WESTERN BALKANS by Jubjana VILA

“…While a comprehensive academic thinking exists about the EU's enlargement policy at its approach to this region, this study aims to understand the internal/regional dynamics in the EU integration path of Western Balkan countries through an overview of their history of integration as well as the EC Progress Reports (2022) for each country. …”
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THE EUROPEAN UNION CONVERGENCE IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT by Iulia Andreea BUCUR, Oana Ancuta STANGACIU

“…In the context of EU enlargement there is no universal model which should offer a unique solution for diminishing the disparities in the development of a country. …”
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Did the economic crisis change V4 trade patterns? The case of intra-industry trade by Patryk Emanuel TOPOROWSKI

“…The results of the estimation proved the positive effect of European integration (before and after EU enlargement) and the negative effect of the crisis.…”
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Particularities of the European Union enlargement process by Andreea Bucur

“…For these reasons, the present paper aims to approach the European integration model by the factors that influenced the enlargement and also by the course of events that are reflected in so-called “waves” of EU enlargement.…”
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Mixed Marriages: The Italian Case Study by Gabriella D'Ambrosio, Veronica Pastori

“…Indeed, in the last years (especially from EU enlargement in 2007 with the addiction of Romania and Bulgaria), italian territory is characterized, for its geographical and cultural position, to be one of the European countries with the largest number of foreign residents: suffice it to say that from 2008 to 2016 the increase is equal to +46.4 percentage points. …”
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