EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Statistics that Eurostat accepts
Comparable data is not a technicality. It is the precondition for allocating funds, measuring compliance and arguing about anything at all.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
What the 2004 and 2007 enlargements teach
Ten countries joined in one year and two more three years later. What happened to their economies afterwards is the best available evidence about what accession…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Defence industrial cooperation as industrial policy
Joint production arrangements bring machine tools, quality systems and engineering skills into a country. Those outlast whatever is being produced.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Building the institutions accession requires
Membership is not a legal state; it is a set of working institutions. Several of the ones Ukraine will need do not yet exist in the…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The Ukraine Facility and reform-linked money
A multi-year financing instrument tied to a plan with indicators. The structure is as important as the amount, because it changes how money and reform relate.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Accession negotiations open: how to read the screening reports
The first intergovernmental conference was held on 25 June. What follows is a technical screening of thirty-five chapters — and the resulting reports are the most…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Competition policy and state aid
A single market only works if the same rules on subsidy and market power apply everywhere. That discipline is one of the harder parts of accession.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The fundamentals cluster
Rule of law, public administration, procurement and statistics. This group of chapters opens first, closes last, and determines the pace of everything else.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Screening: comparing two legal systems chapter by chapter
Before anything is negotiated, both sides sit down and go through the entire body of law together. It is tedious and it sets the real agenda.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The Euro-Atlantic dimension, described factually
Set out as a description of instruments and programmes rather than as a political argument, because the instruments are what actually operate.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
What convergence is worth to a company
Adopting somebody else's rules sounds like a concession. For an exporting firm it is a cost reduction, and the saving can be calculated.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
What convergence costs a company
European alignment is discussed as a national project. For an individual firm it is a specific bill, and knowing the size of it before it arrives…
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