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Cover; Half-title; Ttitle; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 New Member States: macroeconomic outlook and forecasts; 2 The asymmetric impact of enlargement on old and new Member States: a general equilibrium approach; 3 Changes in the spatial distribution patterns of European regional activity: the enlargements of the mid-1980s and 2004; 4 Forecasting macroeconomic variables for the new Member States; 5 The cyclical experience of the new Member States; 6 Demand and supply shocks in the new Member States.

"Copublished with the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, this study asks if the European Union (EU) has the capacity or the will to counter antisemitism. The desire to counter antisemitism was a significant impetus toward the formation of the EU in the twentieth century and now prejudice against Jews threatens to subvert that goal in the twenty-first. The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial offers an overview of the circumstances that obliged European political institutions to take action against antisemitism and considers the effectiveness of these interventions by considering two seemingly dissimilar EU states, Austria and Sweden. This examination of the European Union's strategy for countering antisemitism discloses escalating prejudice within the EU in the aftermath of 9/11. The author contends that Europe's political actors have responded to the challenge and provocation of antisemitism with only sporadic rhetoric and inconsistent commitment, a halfhearted strategy for countering antisemitism that exacerbates skepticism toward EU institutions and their commitments to equality and justice. This exposition of the insipid character of the EU's response simultaneously suggests alternatives that might mitigate the subtle and potentially devastating creep of antisemitism in Europe. This study offers a new approach insofar as scholarly considerations of the EU's attempts to combat racism rarely focus on antisemitism, while scholarship on antisemitism rarely considers the political context of the European Union. "--

This text brings together research into the determinants of marginalization risks for the unemployed and research into social policies for combating marginalization. It examines how far entrapment in unemployment is due to resource constraints motivational problems or skill deficiency.

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Peter Mayo reviews "Migration and Asylum in Malta and the European Union", edited by Peter G. Xuereb, who covers the issue of migration and asylum in Malta from a variety of angles. The sixteen chapters include Xuereb's editorial introduction, in which he discusses some of the finer legal points and provides summaries of the various papers, are well researched, some more than others. ; peer-reviewed

In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union. This timely volume provides one of the first critical assessments of the draft Constitution from the vantage point of political theory.The work combines detailed institutional analysis with normative political theory, bringing theoretical analysis to bear on the pressing issues of institutional design answered - or bypassed - by the draft Constitution. It addresses several themes that play out differently in federal arrangements than in unitary political orders:* European value

This chapter focuses on the evolution of the EU's external trade policy, especially since the adoption of the Trade for All strategy in 2015, and in the context of longterm trends (GVCs, new technologies in trade) and significant internal (Brexit) and external (Trump) shocks. ; peer-reviewed

1. Puzzling policies : gender and European governance -- 2. The price of equal pay (1955-1968) -- 3. The price of supranational gender equality policies (1969-1978) -- 4. The price of more supranational gender equality (1979-1991) -- 5. Shifting costs and concepts of gender equality (1992-2005) -- 6. Costly women and contrary states.