Special arrangements were made by the European Union for decision-making on the possible accession of Romania and Bulgaria. A regime of extra procedures was added to the arrangements used for the Eastern European countries which joined the Union in 2004. This paper examines how the process...

Sen’s capability approach (SCA) has supported valuable work on Human Development (HD), bringing attention to a much wider range of information on people’s freedoms and well-being than in most earlier economic planning, but has troubling features and requires modification and enrichment. The...

The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...