Can multiple streams predict the territorial cohesion debate in the EU?

Is There a Rise of the Territorial Dimension in the Eu Cohesion Policy?

this paper examines the role and importance of the territorial dimension of eU Cohesion Policy, during its five programming phases (1989 ‐2020), by relating this implementation process with several territorial elements, and by assessing their constant changes, namely in three main components and related elements: (i) the ‘policy strategy’ designed to include an integrated territorial perspectiv...

How to strengthen the territorial dimension of ‘Europe 2020’ and the EU Cohesion Policy REPORT

The Eu Stem Cell Debate: Can Patenting Stem Cell Innovations

issued a preliminary and non-binding guidance opinion (‘the Opinion’) in the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the CJEU’) Case C-34/10 Professor Dr Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace eV, which has provoked numerous responses from both sides of the embryonic stem cell patenting debate. Oral proceedings took place at the CJEU in Luxembourg on 11 January 2011, before the entire Grand Chamber of 13...

Can hand dexterity predict the disability status of patients with multiple sclerosis?

  Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disease. Hand dysfunction is one of the main complaints of patients with MS. The present study aimed to compare hand dexterity of MS patients with low Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) scores and healthy adults. It also sought to identify the predictors of disability status of patients with MS based on their m...

Cohesion and Growth in the EU

The analysis of economic disparities within the European Union strongly depends on the regional level concerned. Whereas the economic gap between the member states of the EU15 has decreased over the last decades, regional disparities on the NUTS2-level have rather deepened. The reason for these contradictory findings can be found in the increasing disparities within many of the member states: E...