Dioxin emissions in the candidate countries: sources, emission inventories,
reduction policies and measures Author(s) : PARADIZ B;DILARA P
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and
Sustainability, Emissions and Health Unit, Ispra (IT)
Bibliographic Reference : EUR 20779 EN (2003) , 62pp. Free of charge
EUR-OP reference: LB-NA-20779-EN-C;
ISBN: 92-894-6039-9;
Available from European Commission, JRC Knowledge Management Unit, Ispra (IT)
Tel: +39 033278 9843 or +39 033278 9864
Fax: +39 033278 9623
E-mail:
jrc-publications-office@cec.eu.int
Abstract : In the past, the Commission has launched several studies on dioxin,
as well as studies on the fate and transport, environmental levels and human
exposure of dioxins. Those studies revealed a harmonised view on dioxin issues
across member states, which is apparently lacking for Candidate Countries. DG
Environment, assisted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently launched
two studies to fill the gap ("Dioxin Emissions in Candidate Countries" and "
Dioxins & PCBs: Environmental levels and human exposure in Candidate Countries")
. However these studies will not be completed till 2004.
This report is a first attempt to provide a general overview of the situation of
dioxin emissions in Candidate countries as well as policies and measures to
reduce them. Comparison with the situation in the EU-15 has been made to
understand differences in national circumstances that might require specific
measures and instruments to reduce dioxin emissions. Overview is focused on the
emissions to the air, since the direct emissions to water and soil have a
significantly different source profile, which is not covered by the
Emission-PECO activities. Quantification of emissions was beyond the scope of
this project. This will be done within the above-mentioned study commissioned by
the DG-Environment, which will also take advantage of measurement campaigns.
However the uncertainties in emissions will be reduced when more measurements
are available which will provide representative coverage of relevant activities
and geographical areas so as to highlight differences in technologies, input
materials and operational practices.
Facet Codes : Atmospheric pollution
Availability in Languages : en
Publication Year : 2003
Publication Type : A report issued by the Commission as an EUR report and
identified by its EUR number
New
neighbours The report ," Looking after the neighbourhood : responsibilities for EU 25"
by William Wallace, analyses what the priorities of the EU's strategic
neighbourhood policy are.
Author: Scott Wallsten
Working Paper No.: 2979
Pub. Date: February 24, 2003
Topics: Governance, Infrastructure, Private Sector Development
Full Text: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [380 KB]
Policymakers are simultaneously concerned about the consequences of a worsening
"digital divide" between rich and poor countries and hopeful that information
and computing technologies could increase economic growth in developing
countries. But very little research has explored the reasons for the digital
divide beyond noting that it is strongly correlated with standard development
indicators, and no empirical research has explored the role of regulation.
Wallsten uses data from a unique new survey of telecommunications regulators and
other sources to measure the effects of regulation in Internet development. He
finds regulation strongly correlated with lower Internet penetration and higher
Internet access charges. More specifically, controlling for factors such as
income, development of the telecommunications infrastructure, ubiquity of
personal computers, and time trends, countries that require formal regulatory
approval for Internet service providers (ISPs) to begin operations have fewer
Internet users and Internet hosts than countries that do not require such
approval. Moreover, countries that regulate ISP final-user prices have higher
Internet access prices than countries that do not have such regulations. These
results suggest that developing countries' own regulatory policies can have
large impacts on the digital divide.
This paper-a product of Investment Climate, Development Research Group-is part
of a larger effort in the group to understand regulatory and infrastructure
sector reforms.
The Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe is designed to provide an
ongoing overview of the development of social sciences in Central and Eastern
Europe. GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe in cooperation with Collegium
Budapest and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. It offers a living and long term
mapping of the social science disciplines in Eastern Europe. The Knowledge Base
gives access to facts and background information and it serves as a meeting
point for experts. In its core the Knowledge Base contains reports from the
printed version of the publication >Three Social Sciences in Central and Eastern
Europe. Handbook on economics, political science and sociology (1989-2001)> as
well as reviews of the country articles which were not included in the book
edition. Furthermore, it provides linkages to relevant sites related to the area
such as journals and bibliographical references; most important actors: persons
and institutions; internet resources and scientific events. The objective of the
Knowledge Base is to support scientific communication and cooperation among the
community of international academics form Eastern and Western Europe via
information exchange, scientific discussion and bottom-up networking on the
European level. The Knowledge Base project is open for further collaborators and
invites all social scientists dealing with Eastern Europe to participate in its
development.
ECMI Report #44
Curis, Robert. “Kosovo/a Standing Technical Working Group”, Thirteenth
Meeting: Integration & Returns, Grand Hotel, Pristina, 6 June 2003, July
2003.
Download:
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/download/Report_44.pdf
ECMI Report #45
Curis, Robert. “Kosovo/a Standing Technical Working Group”, Fourteenth
Meeting: Kosovo's Health Care System: Invasive Procedure Needed, Grand
Hotel, Pristina, 17 July 2003, August 2003.
Download:
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/download/Report_45.pdf
A World Bank report identified "the complex cycle of Roma poverty" as "one of
the most critical remaining issues on the agenda of countries of Central and
Eastern Europe as they prepare for European Union (EU) membership," according to
news agency accounts. The report, released on June 24, comes just ahead of a
conference in Budapest on the subject, co-sponsored by the World Bank, the Open
Society Institute, and the European Commission.
According to Agence France Presse, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said
that the conference "could very well mark a turning point for the Roma. " He
welcomed the "new-found awareness that the Romany issue should be seen not only
in terms of human rights and discrimination, but also as a core economic and
social-policy issue. Europe must not leave the Roma behind." According to the
report, nearly 80 percent of Roma in Bulgaria and Romania live on less than
$4.30 a day, while in Hungary, which is expected to join the EU in 2004, 40
percent of Roma live on that income.
The Roma are the fastest-growing minority in the region where their population
is estimated at between seven and nine million people. This is the first time
that the World Bank has addressed the plight of the Roma, and its level of
concern with a minority is also unprecedented.
Prospects for Further (South) Eastern EU
Enlargement: from Divergence to Convergence? by Vladimir Gligorov, Mario Holzner
and Michael Landesmann wiiw Research Reports, No. 296, June 2003 38 pages
including 11 Tables and 16 Figures available in hardcopy (EUR 22.00) or PDF (EUR
20.00) For Abstracts see www.wiiw.at
Publications
We would like to announce the newest PER report
"The Romani "Mahalas" (Neighborhoods) of Southeastern Europe: Politics,
Poverty, and Ethnic Unrest." The full text is available on PER's Web site at
www.per-usa.org.
Investments The most recent evaluations indicate a growth in direct foreign investments
in 2002 in Central and Eastern European countries. The 10 new members of the EU
have attracted slightly more than 21 billion dollars in DFI ie an increase of
nearly 15 in comparison with 2001.
Call for Papers: Reconceptualizing Autonomy in Post-Communist Europe? Editors: Graham Holliday & Gwendolyn Sasse
Consulting Editor: Marc Weller
Assistant Editor: William McKinney
ISSN: 1617-5247
International Editorial Board
Gudmundur Alfredsson :: Marie-Janine Calic :: Richard Caplan
François Grin :: Ted Robert Gurr :: Lauri Hannikainen
Rainer Hofmann :: Donald Horowitz :: Jennifer Jackson Preece
Charles King :: Will Kymlicka :: Joseph Marko :: John McGarry
Margaret Moore :: Brendan O'Leary :: John Packer ::
Alan Phillips :: Max van der Stoel :: Stefan Troebst
The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is a
peer-reviewed electronic journal edited under the auspices of the European
Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). JEMIE is a multi-disciplinary journal, which
addresses issues across a broad field of studies, including ethnopolitical
conflict, strategies of conflict management in divided societies, nationalist
movements, minority mobilization and participation, and minority rights. It is
devoted to the analysis of current developments in minority-majority relations
in the wider Europe, and aims to stimulate wider debate amongst academics,
students and practitioners. As an electronic journal, JEMIE further aims to
promote scholarly debate across as broad an audience as possible, and make the
latest literature available to students who do not have easy access to an
academic library.
Every quarter, a Special Focus section is published which highlights a topic of
particular interest to students of minority issues and ethnopolitics. The third
issue of 2003 will include a section examining the variety of autonomy
arrangements that currently obtain throughout Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union, and seek to discover whether these arrangements constitute the
evolution of a distinctly 'post-communist' form of autonomy.
Contributions are invited which examine the various models of autonomy
developing in this region, either in the form of single or comparative case
studies. In this way, papers may wish to address examples of local
self-government arrangements in Hungary or Slovenia, post-conflict and
preventative conflict arrangements such as Kosovo and Vojvodina, the specifics
of Gagauzia (Moldova), the Crimea (Ukraine), forms of federalism in Russia, and
the situation of Ajaria (Georgia). More specifically, the papers may seek to
examine some of the following questions:
- What forms of autonomy arrangements presently exist in post-communist Europe?
Can these arrangements be defined simply in territorial or ethnic terms? Are
such arrangements formalized or informal, and how effective have they been in
mitigating conflict?
- How did these arrangements arise? Were they a natural response to domestic
challenges or rather the result of external pressures and the involvement of
outside actors? What has been the impact of the transition context on autonomy
arrangements?
- If regional or intergovernmental organizations have been involved, to what
extent, and with what purpose, have they promoted autonomy arrangements over
other models of accommodation, or advanced some hybrid mix of
conflict-regulating strategies?
- Can novel forms of 'post-communist' autonomy arrangements be discerned, and
how is this shaping the evolution of minority rights norms and regimes in the
wider Europe?
A provisional deadline for submission is scheduled for 15 August 2003, with
publication in mid-September and over the subsequent quarter. The Editors would
welcome an early expression of interest. Manuscripts of between 7,000 and 10,000
words will be accepted, and should be forwarded via email to Graham Holliday and
Gwendolyn Sasse. Submissions should include a preliminary abstract, brief
biographical note, and a list of references. Final decisions on publication are
reserved by the Editorial Board.
Graham Holliday
Research Associate
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
Schiffbrücke 12
D- 24939 Flensburg, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 461 141 49 51
Fax: +49 (0) 461 141 49 19
Web: www.ecmi.de
The Center for Policy Studies at the Central
European University is pleased to announce the web publication of three new
conference reports:
The
Nation-building Versus State-building in the Balkans Lessons Learned conference was held at the CEU in November 2002. It was
organized by the Nation-State Research Group of the Blue Bird Agenda for Civil
Society in South-East Europe Project and the CPS and brought together scholars
and policy makers to discuss the development of the Balkans as a region. The
conference was a fruitful exchange of views and discussions on how such factors
as institutions, the international context (such as the EU integration process),
economic performance, minority mobilization and the dynamics of ethnic relations
contribute to the stability and democratization of the multiethnic states of the
Balkans.
http://www.ceu.hu/cps/bluebird/eve/eve_statebuilding.htm
Understanding Xenophobia
in Eastern Europe Workshop was held at the CEU in June 2002 and was organized by the CPS in
cooperation with the Humanities Center. The workshop included an in-depth
analysis of the growth of xenophobia in Eastern European over the past decade,
explored the meanings of various manifestations of xenophobia, as well as
provide a critical examination of traditional and innovative methodological
devices. Participants discussed cutting edge research revealing the relationship
between xenophobic tendencies and the overall level of intolerance in society,
and between the legitimacy of public xenophobic rhetoric and the levels of
everyday xenophobic practices. The workshop also addressed the major policy
relevance of comparative social research to the topic.
http://www.ceu.hu/cps/eve/eve_xenophobia.htm
Social Capital in
the Balkans: The Missing link Was a workshop organized by CPS and the Social Inclusion Research Group of
the Blue Bird Agenda for Civil Society in South-East Europe Project. It was
held in Cluj-Napoca in January-February 2003 and it provided an opportunity for
policymakers, NGOs and academic researchers to discuss the practical and
conceptual merit of social capital for understanding recent developments in the
Balkan area. Sessions explored the controversies over its meaning and
application, the links between social capital and the development of civil
society, its application in lesser-known fields such as administrative reform,
as well some of the dangers of an uncritical promotion of social capital as a
public good.
http://www.ceu.hu/cps/bluebird/eve/eve_soccap.htm
CfP: Is civil society a cause or cure for corruption in Central and Eastern
Europe? (EUMAP) www.eumap.org
Is civil society a cause or cure for corruption in Central and Eastern Europe?
Corruption is widely regarded as one of the major problems troubling the
post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. For example, the recent
EUMAP monitoring reports on corruption in the region argue that the extent of
corruption in the region presents significant risks for an enlarged European
Union.
One reason often cited as part of the explanation for the limited success of
anti-corruption efforts in the region is the weakness of local civil society. In
this view, the weakness (or in some cases absence) of NGOs that would articulate
societal demands for serious measures to tackle corruption is an important
factor encouraging governments not to take the problem as seriously as they
otherwise might.
On the other hand, there may be important reasons for doubting whether civil
society - either in a broad or narrow sense - would currently be able to act as
an effective anti-corruption motor. Reasons for questioning the potential of
civil society in this area could include the following:
* Although around 80 percent of citizens in the regions express the opinion that
most or all of their public officials are corrupt, there is also evidence of
widespread tolerance of corruption by citizens
* NGOs themselves may also be vulnerable to corruption, or to other problems -
such as their relationship with foreign donors - that weaken their impact
* It is an unanswered question whether NGO activity - or societal pressure more
generally - has been an important factor in countries that deal with corruption
effectively
EUMAP.ORG invites articles, essays and opinion pieces on the role of civil
society in the fight against corruption. Quality papers will be featured on the
EUMAP website with the intention of framing and encouraging debate on this
issue. Papers, between 1,500 and 2,000 words, are due by 7 July 2003. Accepted
authors will receive an honorarium of EUR 200.
Please send papers to:
submissions@eumap.org. Contact person: Alphia Abdikeeva
EUMAP.ORG editorial policy and an archive of featured articles are available
online at: http://www.eumap.org/articles
Energy in
transition economies In an article entitled, Ť Power sector regulatory reform in transition
economies : Progress and lessons learned ť Daniel Kenedy, a leading economist
for the EBRD establishes a round-up of the energy sector in transition
economies.
South Eastern Europe The Commission has approved the second annual report on the Stabilisation
and Association Process (SAp) for the countries of South East Europe: Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
Serbia and Montenegro. The report assesses the progress of each country in the
SAp so far, identifying lessons and challenges for the future, and in particular
the coming year. The report reiterates the prospect for the Western Balkan
countries of an even closer relationship with the European Union and ultimately
membership.
NEC
Regional Program Yearbook
This is to announce that, besides the hardcopy, the New Europe College Regional
Program Yearbook for 2001-2 has been published also on the Net It comprises the
research papers of the NEC Fellows within the 2001-2 Regional Program coming
from Bulgaria, Moldova, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. The studies cover different
fields, from sociology, to visual arts.
Foreign Direct
Investment in Southeast Europe by Edward Christie
wiiw Working Papers, No. 24, March 2003 22 pages
available in hardcopy (EUR 8.00) or PDF (free download from wiiw's website)
For Abstract see www.wiiw.at > Publications
Employment The Commission adopted a report on the situation of the employment market in
the 12 candidate countries (the report on Turkey is under preparation) and the
challenges they will be confronted with when the planned enlargement takes place
in 2004. The report indicates that these countries have made progress in terms
of adapting themselves in line with the objectives designed by European Strategy
for Employment and the Lisbon process. However it indicates that there are major
differences between the results produced by the candidate countries and point to
an urgent need to increase employment levels and employment in services, the
reduction of dependence on agriculture and traditional industrial sectors and
the raise the qualification levels.
SPECIAL REPORT
Lawless Rule Versus Rule of Law in the Balkans
Extremist political forces linked with security/intelligence agencies and
organized criminal enterprises have carved out autonomous structures of power in
the Balkans that have instigated conflict and profited ruthlessly from it. These
power structures have been maintained via informal networks that allow them to
operate with impunity from prosecution, suborn elected politicians, extort
profit from entrepreneurs, and manipulate the media.
These political-criminal networks have the motivation and means, through
coercion and politically motivated violence, to obstruct the transformation to
self-sustaining peace. Failure to acknowledge this threat earlier and develop
the means to address it adequately retarded peacebuilding in Bosnia and Kosovo;
it is also the primary barrier to democracy in Serbia.
In Bosnia and Kosovo, the international community has begun to attack the
resources that sustain these rogue power structures: their capacity for
political violence and illicit sources of income. For the rule of law to take
root requires a comprehensive approach to building capacity, developing
effective safeguards to ensure public accountability, and forging an enduring
partnership between local institutions and the international community.
In Serbia, civilian authority and acountability need to be asserted over
intelligence functions; the crimes of the Milosevic regime must be vigorously
prosecuted; and thorough reform of the legal code, judiciary, police, and penal
system must be carried out with international assistance.
The effort must focus on the power brokers responsible for violence-prone
networks in each ethnic community, many of whom were also perpetrators of war
crimes.
To dismantle these power structures permanently, the support of civil society
must be mobilized. One avenue is public exposure of the damage these
political-criminal elites have inflicted within their own ethnic communities.
Even more basic is the need to reassure moderate political forces and honest
judges and police that they will not be abandoned as they undertake the
long-term process of freeing themselves from these predatory structures.
In the Balkans, organized crime is a model of multi-ethnic collaboration; the
response must also be multi-ethnic. In addition to cooperation among
governments, steps are needed to forge regional and international networks that
bring groups from civil society together across ethnic boundaries so they can
reinforce each other in addressing this shared problem.
Unless these predatory power structures are dismantled and the rule of law
institutionalized, political extremism and organized crime will continue to
fester and destabilize the Balkans.
The United States should pick its friends with care and make it clear that
criminals of all ethnicities should be brought to justice. During the past
century, the United States discovered that chronic political unrest in the
Balkans could endanger U.S. interests in ways that were impossible to ignore.
The likely consequence of future neglect would be for the Balkans to degenerate
into a haven or transit point for terrorism.
The Global Review of Ethnopolitics The latest issue of THE GLOBAL REVIEW OF ETHNOPOLITICS is available at
www.ethnopolitics.org.
Featuring articles by Florian Bieber, Thomas C. Davis and Andrei Panici; a forum
discussion on India with contributions Gurharpal Singh, Niraja Gopal Jayal,
Katharine Adeney and Maya Chadda; a contribution to our practitioners' corner by
Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley; a research note by Sandra F. Joireman; a
review essay by Stephen Ryan; a website review by Stephen Hopkins; and twenty
pages of book reviews.
All items can be read online and downloaded free of charge.
Working Hours The European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions
has published a study on working hours in the EU. Working hours are longest in
Greece, Finland and Belgium whilst average working hours are shortest in France,
the Netherlands and Denmark.
BBC report
on AIDS in CEE
Eastern Europe's HIV 'time-bomb'
A huge HIV and Aids epidemic is on the brink of devastating former eastern-block
countries, according to a report in the medical journal The Lancet.
Injecting-drug users and a rise in unsafe sex practices in former communist
countries will soon cause a major HIV/Aids epidemic, say experts. Eastern Europe
and Central Asia have the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world. Figures
from UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation show there are a million HIV
positive individuals living in the former Soviet Union. The authors of the
report say that urgent action is needed to prevent further HIV spread in the
region. Drugs and prostitution Social upheaval in the former communist block in
the 1990s has led to rapidly declining socioeconomic conditions. In view of the
current levels of HIV prevalence, Eastern Europe will soon be confronted with a
major AIDS epidemic.
Dr Françoise Hamers
This, doctors say, has led to a sharp increase in substance abuse, prostitution
and unsafe sex. Data collected from 27 countries in the former communist block
shows that in countries like Estonia, the Ukraine, The Russian Federation and
Kazakhstan, HIV has been spreading through intravenous drug use over the past
five years. But what is worrying doctors is that HIV is now being transmitted
through heterosexual sex - particularly as many HIV positive drug users have
unprotected sex with multiple partners. The report recommends that HIV
prevention programmes for injecting drug users should be made a priority in the
area. Doctors are worried that HIV cases might spread in a similar way to Spain
and Portugal. These were the countries in Western Europe with the highest
numbers of HIV positive injecting drug users. But they also have the highest
rates of HIV transmission through heterosexual sex. Economic migration In
central Europe HIV incidence is much lower with almost half the cases found in
Poland and a third in Romania. Again, most are caused by sharing infected
needles - mostly between drug users, but also in medical programmes by
inadequately sterilised equipment. But doctors say these relatively small
numbers should not lead to complacence. One of the authors of the report, Dr
Françoise Hamers from the Insititut de Veille Sanitaire in France, said: "Rates
of HIV in central Europe remain low at present, but behaviours that promote HIV
transmission are present in all countries. "Improved measures to prevent further
HIV spread are urgently needed." The report also emphasises the need to monitor
economically motivated migration from eastern countries with the movement of
infected individuals to Central and Western Europe also a growing concern.
South East Europe The Migrations, Refugee and Demography Committee has published a report on
"the displacement of populations in South East Europe: trends, problems,
solutions".
The Poor and
the Market The international network Social Watch has published its annual report "The
Poor and the Market" in which it points out that "the net transfer of financial
resources towards developing countries has been negative each year since 1997".
Cohesion Michel Barnier, commissioner for regional policy has presented a second
progress report on economic and social cohesion revealing the analysis of the
situation of the regions in Europe. The report also provides a summary of "the
main debate" on the future of regional policy in the Union for the period
starting in 2007 within the context of an enlarged EU.
Products elaborated within EU PHARE twinning project "Fight against drugs"
Description:
The following products are available for download:
- Manual for teachers
- Manual for pupils
- Manual for doctors
- Romania Drug Situation 2001 - Report for EMCDDA
The Manual for teachers and the Manual for pupils are part of the BARBACANA
educational programme that includes three brochures dedicated to pupils within
the secondary schools, parents and teachers, as well as videotape supporting the
training course. The package will be used for a prevention pilot programme,
which will be run in six cities of Romania: Bucharest, Timisoara, Iasi,
Constanta, Sibiu and Cluj. In a second phase, the programme will be extended all
over the country.
The manual for doctors includes general information regarding the treatment of
the drug addicted, to be used for the first contact with this type of patients.
The report was elaborated by the Reitox National Focal Point for the European
Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). It contains information
about the national strategies on drugs, the epidemiological situation (health
consequences, social and legal consequences, etc.), as well as about the demand
of reduction interventions.
For further information, click on the link below.
Download
European Platform of Women
Scientists As announced in its Science and Society Action Plan (Action 24), the
Commission plans to set up a European Platform of Women Scientists, which will
develop activities designed to promote women scientists and involve them more
actively in shaping the science policy debate at national and European levels.
In preparation for this, a study on networks of women scientists was launched in
November 2002.
The aim of the study is to identify and survey existing networks and to develop
scenarios and provide recommendations for setting up the Platform. This study
will be carried out by Bradley Dunbar Associates Ltd and will run from November
2002 to June 2003. Further details will be available shortly on the Women and
Science EUROPA web pages.
Women in Industrial Research (WIR) On January 23rd, the report "Women in industrial research: A wake-up call
for European Industry" of the high level expert group (chaired by Prof. Dr.
Rübsamen-Waigmann, Vice President of Bayer AG, Head of Antiinfective Research
and Dr. Ragnhild Sohlberg, Vice President, Norsk Hydro ASA) will be presented to
Commissioner Busquin and the press. The report will be available from the WIR
web-site
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/wir.
It is planned to organise an international conference, in Berlin, on June 13/14,
2003, to present the report and discuss the results and recommendations, with
researchers, managers, politicians and other stakeholders. If you are interested
or would like to be kept informed, please contact
helga.ebeling@cec.eu.int
At the end of October 2002, the Commission set up the Enwise Expert Group to
study and report on the situation facing women scientists in the Eastern and
Central European countries and in the Baltic States. This Group will put forward
recommendations to improve the role and place of women in European scientific
research (European Research Area's objective) and to increase the number of
female participants from the targeted countries in the 6th Community Research
Framework Programme (2002-2006). To this end the Group should deliver a report
to the Commission and to the respective political and scientific national
institutions concerned by mid- December 2003. See Enwise homepage at:
www.europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/women/enwise_en.html
The Women and Science Unit,
European Commission, Research DG,
B-1049 Brussels
Fax: +32 2 299 37 46
http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002/science-society/women.htm
EUMAP: Minority Protection Reports (inter alia on Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia
and Roma) EUMAP - http://www.eumap.org/
25 November 2002
MINORITY PROTECTION REPORTS RELEASED
"Monitoring Minority Protection in the EU Accession Process"
"Roma and Russian-speaking minorities in EU candidate countries still face
serious problems. Although the accession process has resulted in the adoption of
special policies to address these issues, they do not enjoy broad political or
public support, and implementation has been poor. Roma and Muslims within EU
member States also face disadvantage and exclusion and the EU is not prepared to
meet the additional challenges that enlargement will bring, as it lacks a
comprehensive framework for minority protection."
For the full text of the report "Monitoring Minority Protection":
http://www.eumap.org/reports/2002/
Volume One: "An Assessment of Selected Policies in Candidate States"
http://www.eumap.org/reports/2002/content/07
Volume Two: "Case Studies in Selected EU Member States"
http://www.eumap.org/reports/2002/content/09
Press releases, including a general release and individual country releases:
http://www.eumap.org/whatsnew/pressinfo/
CORRUPTION "Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Corruption and Anti-corruption Policy"
Full reports on ten accession countries, together with a regional overview.
Online here:
http://www.eumap.org/reports/2002/content/50
JUDICIAL CAPACITY "Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Judicial Capacity" Full reports on ten
accession countries, together with a regional overview. Online here:
http://www.eumap.org/reports/2002/content/70
REPORT ON
THE SITUATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE The European Youth Forum has produced a Report on the Situation of Young
People in South East Europe, which gives an overview of existing research in the
field and which presents possible measures and recommendations for governments
in the region to help them deal with the challenges in the youth sector.
You can find the report in pdf version on:
http://www.youthforum.org
BILLIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY? II The use of EU pre-accession funds and their environmental and social
implications – Second Briefing
Brussels, June 2001
