This article compares the economic performance of the EU cohesion countries - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland …

, Portugal and Spain. After reviewing the existing system of social assistance in each country, we apply a consistent methodology …This paper aims to analyse the social assistance systems in five South European countries: France, Greece, Italy …

the Community has meant so far to its new members of Greece, Portugal and Spain, and at what their chances are for the …, Portugal and Spain, and what lessons ought to be learned from that? … future in the light of these developments. What have their entry into the EC and the Single European Act meant to Greece …

process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …