This report is a succinct description of the sociolinguistic situation of a number of minority language communities living in the following six European States applying for European Union membership: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.

Water security is a major threat to development and food security in many parts of the world. The study examines problems of water management and proposes strategies for conflict prevention and techniques for a better management of resources with a view to sustainable development.

The purpose of this research is to examine whether there is common legislation and common policies in each Member State as well as in each of the candidate countries of the European Union to guarantee the right to defence and fair legal procedures. The study therefore analyses the domestic...

In 2004 ten more countries (Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia) will come into the European Union. In addition, Bulgaria and Romania are scheduled to join in 2007, with negotiations with Turkey starting at that point. This study...

This study is essentially an updated version of two earlier texts in this series: Tax Competition in the European Union (ECON 105 of October 1998) and Tax Co-ordination in the European Union (ECON 125 of January 2001). It covers much of the same ground as these studies, but takes into account...

Prospects for the European Union and the Euro Area look sound, but there is a risk of a significant slowdown in the US. Central banks in the European Union should stand ready to offset any deflationary impacts from abroad. The appreciation of the Euro and lower oil prices should help moderate...

Multilateral trade negotiations limited to agriculture started again in March 2000. Set out in Article 20 of the Agreement on Agriculture, they are among the WTOs built-in agenda commitments which Member countries entered into when signing the Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round...

The study presents the legal and political framework of the EP's institutional position in the EU's common foreign and security policy and analyses the constitutional role of selected national parliaments in foreign policy.

This note intends to present the most recent facts and figures on trafficking in women and children. It will define the main concepts related to this issue, then present the data available and the causes often proposed to account for this phenomenon and finally the actions taken by the EU in...

The goal of the study presented in this Report was to highlight the impact that prostitution related policies have on the number of women and children trafficked and on the manners of their exploitation, i.e. to underline the correlations between the legislation typologies/models on prostitution...