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In this new work, Pascariu and Duarte, along with an international group of acclaimed scholars, delve into key challenges currently facing the European Union. They Analyze the effect of peripherality across the EU regions which will be of great interest to those countries and regions facing a process of integration.

The objective of the article is to investigate the effects of the stage of integration on convergence in the European Union. The relationships between the selected macroeconomic variables and per capita GDP growth rate are econometrically tested for the period 2004-2018 and three sub-periods: the pre-crisis period 2004-2008, the crisis period 2009-2013, and the post-crisis period 2014-2018. Convergence is estimated using ordinary least squares (OLS) semi-log regression based on cross-sectional data. The findings show that convergence rates range between 1.9 percent and 4.8 percent. The positive effects of deeper integration are identified, as well as the negative effects of the 2008/2009 crisis. The empirical results suggest that the selected variables have an impact on the per capita GDP growth rate in at least one analyzed period.

Questions to be discussed and resolved at the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference on the EU's institutional structures and procedures, focusing on its development and modernization. Topics include opening western European markets to Eastern Europe, devolution of responsibility for regional matters to the regional level, and role of the European Parliament.

Despite the widespread perception that religious actors were passive to the construction of the European project, relations between churchmen and politicians at the local and supranational levels have been a constant mark from the Schuman Declaration until today. This paper focuses on the mobilisation of religious networks in the process of European integration. It examines the typology of transnational religious structures, compares the main policy areas for religious/convictional actors and provides a list of religious/convictional actors in dialogue with European institutions. ; Politics; Religious and convictional networks; Religious dialogue in the European Union