This study on "Services of general Interest in the Internal Market" was commissioned by the European Parliament with the aim of preparing background material and advising Members of the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection on legal and economic issues...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Central and Eastern Europe declined from a record $31 billion in 2002 to a low of $21 billion last year, the result of the end of privatisation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, according to the World Investment Report 2004: The Shift Towards...