The European Union has recently launched the overall enlargement process with the ten Central and East European countries (CEEC) and with Cyprus. Bilateral intergovernmental conferences will soon be convened to begin negotiations with Hungary, Poland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and...

The paper aims at putting forward recommendations with respect of the new association agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Palestinian Territories which will be negotiated soon. In the process, the earlier association agreement is reviewed within the context of the EU's...