Publications

The present paper focuses on agricultural and rural labor markets in three countries with candidate status in an ongoing strategy, policy and process for EU membership: Croatia, the former Yugoslav R...chevron_right

This paper analyzes how farm production and input use (land, variable inputs, labor and capital) is related to farm access to credit in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) transition countries. The a...chevron_right

This paper provides an overview and a comparison of land markets covering the three candidate countries for European Union membership: Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia and Tu...chevron_right

This paper considers the most important changes brought by the Treaty of Lisbon to the functioning of the Court of Justice of the EU. It explores the theoretical option of increasing Court of Justice ...chevron_right

Investors are anticipating the unravelling of the 21 July 2011 Eurozone ‘solution’. In this commentary, the authors argue that the EFSF cannot work as intended but if it were registered as a bank – w...chevron_right

In this commentary, the authors argue that the EFSF cannot work as intended, but if it were registered as a bank, the generalized breakdown of confidence could be stopped while leaving the management ...chevron_right

Recent opinion polls show that financial crisis has thoroughly damaged the confidence of citizens in their political institutions and that the public’s trust in national governments and parliaments is...chevron_right

The first act of the eurozone debt drama was about whether any European Union member country could ever become insolvent. It ended when the highest EU authority, the European Council, officially recog...chevron_right

This paper considers the concept of state sustainability and how it is central to any understanding of Mediterranean politics. Too often confused with stability in policy debates in the Mediterranean ...chevron_right

Given Britain’s desire to maintain its own border controls, it will not join the EU’s passport-free ‘Schengen’ area in the foreseeable future. Ireland also has to stay out because it shares a common t...chevron_right

This paper argues for a more organized intervention by the ECB to stop contagion through the creation of a quantitative easing program, coupled with a political agreement among member states on a mor...chevron_right

'Blue’ or Eurobonds guaranteed via joint and several liability by the eurozone member states have been proposed by Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank, as a key tool to stabilize and structure the ...chevron_right

European leaders have failed to isolate the Greek crisis and to stop the forces of contagion. The reluctance of the ECB to take up its responsibility as a lender of last resort is the single most imp...chevron_right

EU policy on Central Asia is unclear about the relationship between Afghanistan and Central Asia. The June 2010 Joint EU Council and Commission Implementation Report of the EU Strategy for Central Asi...chevron_right

This paper examines whether there are systematic differences between the quality of life of an elderly person who is institutionalized and one who is not. Keeping health status and income level consta...chevron_right