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BALTIC JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIes ISSN 2228-0588 Vol 1, No 2 (10) September 2011 Foreword .............................................................................................................................. 3 Notes on Contributors .......................................................................................................... 4 ARTICLES András Inotai. Impact of the Global Crisis on EU–China Relations: Facts, Opportunities and Potential Risks .................................................................................. 7 Andrea Éltető. Portugal and Spain: Causes and Effects of the Crisis ............................. 34 Alina Christova. The European Stability Mechanism: Progress or Missed Opportunity? ................................................................................................................. 49 Tiia Püss, Mare Viies, Reet Maldre. Social Systems in the Baltic States and the European Social Model ................................................................................................ 59 Helbe Põdder. Employment of Mothers and Fathers: A Comparison of Welfare States in Scandinavia and Estonia ........................................................................................... 85 Vlad Vernygora. Prospects for New Zealand in the Baltic States: Theoretical, Structural and Operational Dimensions of Cooperation ..............................................103 Tuuli Lähdesmäki. Contested Identity Politics: Analysis of the EU Policy Objectives and the Local Reception of the European Capital of Culture Program .......................134 Pawel Ladykowski. The Emerging Polish–German Borderland: The Past and the Present ...................................................................................................................167 Ants Kukrus, Raul Kartus. Issues of the Legal Protection of Brand-Name Drugs in the European Union .................................................................................................192 BOOK REVIEWS Tamás Szigetvári. Fóti, G. & Ludvig, Zs. (eds.) Economic Crisis and Political Turmoil in Ukraine. East European Studies Series, No. 2, Budapest: Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010, 153 pp. ...........................211 Zsuzsa Ludvig. Szigetvári, T. (ed.), The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Experiences, Efforts and Expectations. East European Studies Series, No. 3, Budapest: Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2011, 150 pp. ...............................................................................................................214 Baltic Journal of European Studies 1 Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol. 1, No. 2 (10) 2 Baltic Journal of European Studies Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol. 1, No. 2 (10) Foreword The issue you are currently reading is the second issue of the Baltic Journal of European Studies (BJES), the direct successor of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies, the Journal of Tallinn University of Technology (IES Proceedings), published by the Department of International Relations of the Tallinn University of Technology until 2010. The special issue of the Baltic Journal of European Studies, Vol. 1(2), as part of the regularly published periodical, has been prepared to celebrate a momentous step in the academic cooperation of Estonian and Hungarian scientists—the appointing of Dr András Inotai as Honorary Doctor in the field of international economics and Estonian–Hungarian scientific collaboration by the Tallinn University of Technology. Academician András Inotai is one of the leading economic scientists in Europe and has successfully led the Institute for World Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for twenty years. He is a remarkably broad-minded scholar, an outstanding man, whose personal support and cooperation skills have strongly contributed to the popularization of the work and achievements of the younger generation of Estonian economists and sociologists in the entire Europe and have greatly facilitated the integration of Estonian scholars into the European scientific community. The essential significance of the articles published in this issue lies in a new perspective given to the key issues in the field of economic policy of the European Union and introduction of new and exciting authors from Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Poland, etc. In sum, the fall issue of the journal offers the chance to significantly broaden the approach to scientific topics and, at the same time, focus on the characteristic features of the continuing process of economic and social, but also cultural, integration in the European Union. Aksel Kirch Editor of the special issue Baltic Journal of European Studies 3 Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol. 1, No. 2 (10) Notes on Contributors Alina Christova is a fully trained German lawyer specialising in European Union law, international law, and East European law. She has worked as political adviser for the Council of the European Union, as a legal expert for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and for several university institutions in Berlin, Germany, including the Humboldt University, the European Centre for Comparative Government and Public Policy as well as the Institute for East European Studies. Currently, she is part of the E-Learning and Training Unit of the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium. Her most recent publications include the articles “Europe’s Quest for a Response to the Financial Crisis” and “Future Developments of E-Modules: The Role of Interactive Tools and Multimedia in Teaching European Studies Online”. Andrea Éltető, PhD, has been senior research fellow at the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1992. Her main research fields are: Spain and Portugal in the EU, FDI and foreign trade of Hungary. Her graduate and postgraduate studies were undertaken at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences. She has participated in several international research projects and fellowships and received the Young Scientist Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1999. Her publication list consists of several international and national issues, one book, twelve book chapters, over thirty articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than twenty studies. András Inotai, DSc, General Director of the Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, visiting professor at the College of Europe Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland), master course at Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (Bonn), graduate and master course at European Online Academy (Berlin–Nice). His major fields of research are: globalisation and impact of the financial and macroeconomic crisis on global developments, theoretical issues of economic integration, European Union, policies and positions of new member countries of the EU, lessons from two decades of (economic) transformation, China’s economic development pattern and its growing role in global issues, the Western Balkans and its way to the European Union. He has authored over a dozen books and several hundreds of professional publications in English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, etc. and delivers about twenty conference speeches/ contributions each year in Hungary and abroad. Raul Kartus received his master’s degree (MBA) from the Tallinn University of Technology in 2007. He also has MEng from the Tallinn University of Technology in 1972 and LLM (IP law) from the Moscow Patent Institute in 1978. Since 1992 he has been working as head of Patent Department, and since 2000 as counsellor at Estonian Patent Office. He is representative of Estonia in Patent Law Committee and Budget and Finance Committee of European Patent Organization and member of the IP Working Party (patents, trademarks) of the Council of the European Union. He is also member of the AIPPI Estonian National Group. 4 Baltic Journal of European Studies Tallinn University of Technology (ISSN 2228-0588), Vol. 1, No. 2 (10) Ants Kukrus, PhD, is Professor of Business Law and head of the Chair of Business Law, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. From 1997 to 2007 he was visiting professor at the Institute of Law, University of Tartu. He has PhD from the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1975, Administrative Law) and has published a large number of books and articles on matters related to intellectual property law. Dr. Paweł Ładykowski has been dealing with the issues of ethnicity and examining the social phenomena associated with political system transformations in the socio-cultural and ethnic dimension in post-socialist countries since the early 1990s. Between 1992 and 2008 he conducted a long-term field research with a particular emphasis on countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia (Kaliningrad). Since 2008, he has worked on the analysis of social phenomena taking place in the Eastern areas of the former GDR. Currently he is conducting a long-term field research in the entire catchment area of the Szczecin Lagoon and especially the emerging multi-dimensional space of the Polish– German borderland. Tuuli Lähdesmäki, PhD, is researcher at the Department of Art and Culture Studies, University of Finland. Her current research project (‘Identity politics in Pécs, Tallinn and Turku as European Capitals of Culture’) is funded by the Academy of Finland. Her major fields of research are identity