Contrary to popular beliefs a lack of funding has not been the biggest obstacle for motorway construction in the Czech Republic. What are the real issues?

Since joining the EU in 2004, the Czech Republic has become one of the continent’s busiest road transport hubs. The country urgently needs to modernize its motorways. But the economic crisis has turned the project into an...

Starting in 1993, the European Union has elaborated conditionality for new members, in response to the desire of the post-communist countries to join. Now conditionality has to prove its power in Turkey and the Balkans.

Imagine a world where the Britons are, on average, poorer than the Bulgarians and as poor as the Romanians. This is not fiction, but the world according to the European Union’s so-called ‘risk of poverty’...

All the new member states qualify for EU funds intended to help them ‘catch up’ to their wealthier neighbours. The problems of absorbing these funds reflect the absence of effective national policy frameworks and...

The prospects for absorbing EU financial assistance for the SME sector depend more on the capacity of the Turkish authorities to identify and address the needs of SMEs, and less on the amount of financial assistance...

While EU accession will help to consolidate Serbia’s transition to a market democracy, the human development lens can help devise policies to promote social solidarity and prevent vulnerable groups from being left...