Publications

This publication explores the relationship between ageing and aggregate health care expenditure in the EU countries on a macroeconomic level, incorporating economic and institutional variables.chevron_right

This publication examines the impact of death costs on health-care spending in Italy. It reviews the empirical literature on health economics, presenting the main results obtained by studies on the in...chevron_right

This publication discusses the links between aging, reported states of health and use of medical services in Hungary. It analyzes the prevalence of good and poor health, as well as the use of medical ...chevron_right

This publication builds up a picture of the movements in health status of the whole population of each country by age.The authors present a demographic accounting matrix by age/sex in Germany, the UK ...chevron_right

This paper describes the processes of demographic and epidemiological change, as well as self-assessment of health status in selected Central and Eastern European countries. It explores medical servic...chevron_right

This publication reviews the Slovak health care system and why it has not benefited from the processes of economic transition. The authors offer an economic model to quantify revenues and expenditures...chevron_right

This briefing note looks at the key issues arising in the proposed directive on labor migration and sets out the main debates. The author looks at the objectives of and the grounds for the proposal. T...chevron_right

This report discusses the EU budget at a time when the EU Commission is undertaking a full review of its expenditures and resources. The author argues that any analysis of the budget has to take into ...chevron_right

This paper presents an overview of the Asia Pacific Partnership on clean development and climate. It begins with a literature review followed by a comparison of the initiative with the EU energy and c...chevron_right

This paper discusses EU reform after the constitutional impasse that resulted from the failure to ratify the Treaty of Rome, signed in June 2004. Based on the EU Reform Treaty approved at Lisbon in Oc...chevron_right

This paper examines the external energy policy of the EU. It makes four arguments. First, the EU's stated approach to energy security can be described as revolving around the concept of a market-gover...chevron_right

This paper discusses the applicability of the six "just war" principles to the question of the extent to which the Kosovo conflict can serve as a political model for forceful external involvement in a...chevron_right

This study is a qualitative analysis of a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and South Korea conducted from January to April 2007. As such, it is an in-depth examination of the exten...chevron_right

This paper reveals that the EU has made some modest progress toward according concrete substance to the security-development link. According to the author, an increased focus on supporting governance ...chevron_right

With the deal reached at the European Council in Lisbon, a long cycle of attempts to improve the working of the EU, including three intergovernmental conferences in 15 years, is finally ending. Decisi...chevron_right