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This paper analyzes the behavior of Central and Eastern European migrants
regarding money remitting to their country of origin and is based on data
provided by the National Immigrant Survey of Spain. In order to analyze the
impacts of migrants? demographic and economic characteristics on remitting
behavior, the variables employed in the econometric model referred to
individual factors, factors that evaluate the migrant?s links with the native
country and those that account for the degree of migrant?s integration in
Spain. The factors showing a stronger attachment to relatives and the country
of origin have a positive impact on the decision to remit and on the remitted
amounts, while the factors that point to the integration of the migrant into
Spanish society have a negative and smaller impact on the remitting decision.

The European Union (EU) has been through many institutional transformations since the start of the integration project in the 1950s. While much of the literature has focussed on the more dramatic changes, less attention has been paid to instances of more limited institutional change. This article maps out and then accounts for the limitedness of the EU's departure from its original 'federal blindness'vis-à-visregional actors. Theories of institutional change would lead one to expect that, as integration and regionalization heightened, endogenous pressures for change would trigger greater reform than that observed. Using a novel formula to estimate the EU's aggregate regionalization levels over time, the article demonstrates that it peaked between 1986 and 2003 but has since dropped to a level below that of the 1950s. Such a finding not only corrects a widespread assumption about regionalization levels in the European polity, but also provides an explanation for the pace and scope of the observed change as well as predictions about its future sources.