The enlargement of the European Union will establish a new relationship between the Union and the "outsider" states that lie outside that process. Surveys in the first half of 2000 in four of these states - Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine - found that attitudes towards the Union and the...

On paper, the Stability Pact places clear obligations on national governments to reduce their annual deficit and debt, and to do so promptly or face big cash penalties. However, this technocratic agreement ignores the fact that each government is democratically accountable to its citizens as...