EU Trade Policy Research Articles

Economics of European integration

Part 1: History, Facts and Institutions 1. History 2. Facts, Law, Institutions and Budget 3. Decision Making Part II: The Microeconomics of Economic Integration 4. Essential Microeconomics Tools 5. The Essential Economics of Preferential Liberalization 6. Market Size and Scale Effects 7. Growth Effects and Factor Market Integration 8. Economic Integrations, Labour Markets and Migration Part III: EU Micro Policies 9. The Common Agricultural Policy 10. Location Effects, Economic Geography and Regional Policy 11. EU Competition and State Aid Policy 12. EU Trade Policy Part IV: The Macroeconomics of Monetary Integration 13. Essential Macroeconomic Tools 14. Essential Facts of Monetary Integration 15. Optimum Currency Areas Part V: EU Monetary and Fiscal Policies 16. The European Monetary Union 17. Fiscal Policy and the Stability Pact 18. The Financial Markets and the Euro 19. The Eurozone in crisis

The hub and spoke approach of EU trade policy

The hub and spoke approach of EU trade policy

Staff Report on the Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies of the Euro Area;Supplement Updating Information on Recent Economic Developments and Policies in the Euro Area; Supplement on EU Trade Policies; Public Information Notice Following Consultation; Two Statements by Representative on the IMF Executive Board for France, on Behalf of Euro-Area and EU Members

Staff Report on the Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies of the Euro Area;Supplement Updating Information on Recent Economic Developments and Policies in the Euro Area; Supplement on EU Trade Policies; Public Information Notice Following Consultation; Two Statements by Representative on the IMF Executive Board for France, on Behalf of Euro-Area and EU Members

A Common Foreign Policy for Europe? Competing Visions of the CFSP

The first book to explore the EU's record as a global actor since the creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1993 within the context of the Treaty of Amsterdam and recent decisions relating to NATO and EU enlargement. The chapters focus on: * the interface between EU foreign and trade policies * the EU's relationship with European defence organizations * its behaviour within the OSCE and UN * the institutional consequences of the CFSP * case studies of EU policies towards Central and Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries. The editors draw the findings together to assess whether the EU has been successful as a global actor and consider the question: can the EU become a more credible, reliable and unitary global actor?

BEEF TRADE PREFERENCES AND INTENSITIES IN THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN CUSTOMS UNION / BEESVLEISHANDELSVOORKEURE EN -INTENSITEITE IN DIE SUIDER-AFRIKAANSE DOWEANE UNIE

Inter- and intra-industrial beef trade in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and between SACU and the rest of the world is investigated by calculating different coefficients. Concentration of imports to and exports from the SACU have increased over time. Changes in intra-regional trade are dominated by the EU. The high level of concentration and intra-regional trade is mainly a result of trade agreements such as Lome. This has led to greater inequality with respect to beef trade. Beef producers in the SACU are vulnerable to changes in EU trade policy. Trade relations between South Africa and Namibia are intense, but not between South Africa and Botswana. Botswana prefers to trade with the rest of the world and specifically the EU. Beef trade with the rest of the world is becoming more important for South Africa, and this must be disturbing to Namibian beef producers. Producers from Botswana and Namibia are very dependent on their market in the EU, which they obtained through the Lome Convention. Th...