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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Boxes -- Figures -- Appendices -- Boxes -- Table -- Appendix -- Figures -- Tables -- Appendices -- Box -- Figures -- Tables -- Annex -- A. European Integration and Euro Adoption -- B. Advantages from Adopting the Euro -- 1. Euro Premium, 2001-13 -- C. Advantages from Preserving Monetary Policy Autonomy and Exchange Rate Flexibility -- 2. New Member States: Monetary Policy, 2003-07 -- 3. New Member States: Monetary Policy, 2008-14 -- D. The Impact of Euro Adoption on Macroeconomic Policy Frameworks -- E. Conclusions -- 1. The 2004 IMF Study, and New Evidence on its Main Findings -- 2. New Member States, Euro Adoption, and the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas -- 3. Economic and Price Convergence in Emerging Europe -- I. Estimating the Euro Premium -- II. The Index of Monetary Conditions -- III. Model-Based Inflation Variance Decomposition -- References -- Euro Adoption-Macroeconomic Benefits and Challenges -- A. Why Did Europe Need a Banking Union? -- B. Banking Union Modalities and What an Early "Opt-In" Entails -- C. Banking Union Opt-In: Pros and Cons for Non-Euro EU Countries -- 1. Benefits and Costs of Joining Banking Union for Non-Euro Area Countries -- D. Conclusions -- 1. Key Elements of the Euro Area Banking Union -- 2. The SSM Modalities -- 3. The SRM Modalities -- 4. Macroprudential Policy Space for BU members -- 5. Theoretical Considerations in Designing an Optiomal Banking Union -- 6. Cross-Country Differences in Policymakers Relative Preference for Promoting Domestic Banks -- I. Largeset Banks in NMS-6 and their Ultimate Owners -- References -- Opting into the Banking Union Before Euro Adoption -- A. Public Pension Systems in New Member States: The Broad Picture -- 1. Selected European Countries: Key Demographic Data -- 1. Pension Spending Projections

Introduction : conceptualizing the europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe / Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier -- The impact of EU political conditionality / Frank Schimmelfennig, Stefan Engert, and Heiko Knobel -- The adoption of nondiscrimination and minority protection rules in Romania, Hungary, and Poland / Guido Schwellnus -- Europeanization and civil service reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Antoaneta L. Dimitrova -- External incentives and lesson-drawing in regional policy and health care / Wade Jacoby -- Regulating the flow of people across Europe / Heather Grabbe -- The europeanization of environmental policy / Liliana B. Andonova -- The transfer of EU social policy transfer of EU social policy to Poland and Hungary / Beate Sissenich -- Diverging effects of social learning and external incentives in Polish central banking and agriculture / Rachel Epstein -- Europeanization research east and west : a comparative assessment / Adrienne Héritier -- Conclusions : the impact of the EU on the accession countries -- Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier

Directory of institutes engaged in research related to peace and security; includes condensed versions of papers presented at a UNIDIR conference held in Zurich, Apr. 26-28, 1994. Directory includes staff, periodical publications, and research activities; covers institutes in Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine.

A study of the political events of 1924 in Central and Eastern Europe reveals such a variety of topics lending themselves to extensive treatment that for convenience of treatment, the material has been grouped under the four main heads of (1) financial reconstruction, (2) constitutional, legislative, and administrative developments, (3) parties and politics, and (4) foreign relations.

The Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) have been shaped by the EU conditionality, meaning that these countries were obliged to develop their administrative capacities in completely convergence with the acquis communautaire in order to join the European Union. The 2004 and 2007 enlargement of the EU and the accession negotiations have brought a systemic transformation of the CEECs through what is known in the literature as Europeanization. It seems to be a strong connection between conditionality and Europeanization, the former giving way to the latter. Therefore the capacity and the willingness of candidate countries to transfer the acquis into the domestic legal context have had a significant influence in the way in which the Europeanization process has succeeded in inhabiting the governance system of the CEECs. Considering these, the purpose of this paper is to examine through which mechanisms it was realized the correspondence between EU conditionality and the process of central and eastern enlargement-led Europeanization which seems to have been internalized distinctively by the CEECs, where administrative resources to comply with European standards were lagging behind.