This note provides an overview of France, its political, economic and administrativesystem, together with a description of European Union support to France, and theOperational Programmes contained in the National Strategic Reference Frameworkfor the period 2007-2013.Special attention is given to...

This thematic evaluation on Support to Economic Governance in Enlargement and Neighbourhood Countries has been carried out from January 2016through mid-2017. The global objective of the evaluation is to provide findings and recommendations to assist DG NEAR in streamlining its approach to...

This report explores the employment impact of globalisation and reviews the attitudes and responses of national governments and the European social partners to this phenomenon. It first looks at the attitudes of the different stakeholders in the 27 Member States of the EU, including Bulgaria and...

This briefing paper provides critical reflections on the European Commission Communication: u0091a European agenda for culture in a globalising worldu0092 of 10th May 2007. It highlights some potential points of progress that have been proposed to improve the EUu0092s difficult and faltering...