Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Anders �Aslund and Marek D�abrowski -- Has Europe lost its heart? / Charles Wyplosz -- Economic implications of the social provisions of the stalled EU constitution / Georges de M�enil -- Fiscal policy and fiscal rules in the European Union / Vito Tanzi -- Design and implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact: the perspective of new member states / Fabrizio Coricelli -- Perspective on the Lisbon strategy: how to increase European competitiveness / Daniel Gros -- Is Europe reforming? Evidence from cross-country structural indicators / Patrick Lenain -- Recovery growth as a stage of post-socialist transition / Yegor T. Gaidar -- Comparative oligarchy: Russia, Ukraine and the United States / Anders �Aslund -- The economic rationale of the "European neighborhood policy" / Susanne Milcher, Ben Slay, and Mark Collins -- Economic integration of Eurasia: opportunities and challenges of global significance / Johannes F. Linn and David Tiomkin.

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