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The CCBE represents some half a million European lawyers and has spent the past three months sounding out its members on the Green Paper, which the Commission unveiled on February [...]

The premise of 'the political and strategic importance of Ukraine to the EU' remains unaltered in the strategy paper. Its 'continued democratic development and an accelerated process of transition to [...]

The three-day WSIS brought together some 11,000 delegates from 175 countries, 663 non-governmental organisations, 111 private enterprises and 72 international organisations. In its Communication, the Commission is careful not to [...]

'We cannot agree to be reduced to the scale of an association, we have a remit bestowed upon us by our citizens. We want to be respected.' This frustration at [...]

The Green Paper. There is a myriad of different, complex issues in the field of criminal procedural law and the Commission has decided that the Green Paper will focus on [...]

The paper analyses the South Caucasus corridor as an alternative route to Europe. Kazakhstan has slowly but surely worked to develop this westbound route for its oil exports. It has [...]

Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kuneva presented her Green Paper to the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee on 12 February in Strasbourg. Less than a week after announcing her aim [...]

As announced in its newly-adopted Green Paper on energy policy, the Commission proposes to forge closer ties with leading energy consumers. In view of its rapid economic development and fast-increasing [...]

The European Commission's recently-issued enlargement strategy paper is 'a good basis for a necessary, further discussion on enlargement in 2006', EU Foreign Ministers said on December 12. The Commission had [...]

Each of the six papers, which were published as a complement to the summit, were penned by individual experts. One focuses on climate change, another on immigration (see last two [...]

The discussion paper, referred to by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in his pre-summit speech to MEPs on October 26, was written by Patrick Weil, an expert form the Paris-based [...]

The policy paper was drafted in response to a request from the European Council in June for a strategy to be adopted by the end of 2005 on the external [...]

The paper addresses the concerns of the three countries which are the largest net contributors to the budget. It states that the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany rank first, second and [...]

The Green Paper will be followed up by a public hearing in July 2005, after which the Commission will draw up a concrete policy plan to be presented by the [...]

The PCAOB briefing paper released on October 28 states that: 'The Board believes that it is in the public interest, and the interest of investors and the Board's non-U.S. counterparts, [...]

The one-day Summit will be the first occasion for leaders from both sides to meet since China issued its policy paper on EU relations and the EU approved its strategy [...]

The paper, sent to EU Member States in the so-called 133 Committee of trade officials, raises the possibility of part of the WTO being granted exemptions from the stronger demands [...]

The association was responding to the Commission's Green Paper of January 14, 2003, in which a 'Rome I' Regulation was first touted (see European Report 2739, Section IV). 'The Convention [...]

The Ministers criticised the Harbinson paper for its lack of balance, particularly for making greater demands on the EU than was required of the US in reducing trade-distorting subsidies. They [...]

Presenting its opinion on the European Commission's White Paper on Governance, the European Association of Elected Representatives from Mountain Areas (AEM) has reiterated its call for instruments which take account [...]

The Commission has been invited to submit its recommendations (if necessary, in the form of a Green or White Paper) for future approaches to potential problems concerning contract law by [...]

The Parliamentary rapporteur's overall assessment of the European Commission's White Paper is positive. Juan Izquierdo Collado indicated that he does not propose to be confrontational. He acknowledged that 'errors have [...]

As a contribution to the search for a way out of the crisis in the Middle East, the Spanish Presidency tabled a working paper on possible guidelines for a Union [...]

In its working paper, the Commission indicates that the forthcoming Industry Ministers' get-together offers a decisive opportunity to give fresh impetus to industrial co-operation activities undertaken in the context of [...]

The European Commission's working paper on linguistic simplification, open to inter-services consultation, envisages aligning the linguistic regime for written procedures on that for oral proceedings. The existing rules provide in [...]

The paper - initially supposed to be adopted on May 23 - is concerned that Europe's reputation in education does not match its high standards. The EU could make much [...]

Foreign Ministers at the EU's General Affairs Council in Luxembourg on June 25 backed the European Commissions May paper calling for relations with China to be revamped (see European Report [...]

The European Commission's public hearing on the Green Paper concerning the future of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) continued on June 6-7 with more fishermen's representatives voicing their views. [...]

Regulation review.The demands came in the form of a position paper issued jointly by UNICE, the IRU and the ESC, calling for a revision of the 1998 Rapid Intervention Regulation [...]

On free movement of workers, the Dutch paper starts from the principle that increasing the mobility of labour is beneficial in macro-economic terms, and goes on to suggest that enlargement [...]

Istanbul will host the Fifth World Water Forum, from 15 to 22 March, which will revolve around the overarching themes of 'Bridging divides for water'. The meeting aims to promote [...]

Screaming headlines during and following the European Council declaimed French President Nicolas Sarkozy's apparent war on competition as a mainstay of the European internal market. 'Competition as an ideology, a [...]

A detailed study just released by the European Trade Union Institute presents a number of ways to strengthen the social dimension of a future EU Treaty. The thorough and uncompromising [...]

Business wants a pan-European telecommunications market, according to a study published on 5 June, with the support of British Telecom (BT). The current telecoms regulatory environment, which entered into force [...]

The EU is seeking to step up its cooperation with the energy-rich region of Central Asia. 'EU enlargement has brought us closer to Central Asia and the time is ripe [...]

With the Kosovo status process reaching a critical stage, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn appealed to the EU's member states to unite over the issue. 'European unity and leadership lies at [...]

Whether actually crossing EU borders or simply shopping online, consumers must have more confidence in Europe's internal market by 2013. They will have to be informed, have choices and be [...]

Mario Telo is the chairman of the European studies institute at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and a specialist in institutional questions. In an interview with Europolitics, he analyses the [...]

The EU is about to start a gradual four-phase plan to withdraw its troops from Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was one of the outcomes of a wide-ranging discussion of EU defence ministers [...]

With Commissioner Peter Mandelson having launched a broad consultation on the future of the trade defence instruments (TDI) in the EU member states, the German EU Presidency is being cautious [...]

At the Telecommunications Council, the classic divisions on postal liberalisation re-emerged during discussion of the European Commission's proposal for a liberalised postal services market by 2009. The Commission had presented [...]

Environmental co-operation between the European Union and Russia has been made official. A document setting out the principles, objectives and the organisation of this collaboration was signed in Helsinki on [...]

The EU cannot wait for the resumption of Doha Round multilateral trade negotiations to conquer new markets and must adapt its commercial strategy to face up to the challenge of [...]

The third meeting of the EU-OPEC Energy Dialogue has yielded an improvement in mutual understanding on energy strategy. Discussions on the issue were described as 'frank', which is the least [...]

The European Commission is adding the final touches to its report on the implementation of the new European rail package. It is expected to be published at the beginning of [...]

The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), which brings together Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania and which might soon have even fewer members, is set to be given a new lease [...]

Liner shipping conferences are groups of companies providing regular international freight transport services - generally to North America and the Far East - which strike agreements to organise these services, [...]

Brain circulation. 'Europe should have its own third way policy on qualified foreign workers: neither closing the door to the potential they offer nor falling into the North American trap: [...]

Political groups split. In the final vote, the EPP-ED rapporteur Ewa Klamt (Germany) urged her group to abstain - and most of them did - as many paragraphs got through [...]

As he did in June, the UK premier expounded a vision of a Europe united around a common vision and a common project, responding to the challenges of globalisation and [...]