The paper tackles the problem of making direct payments in the EU countries more equal. Two sets of indices and their evolution are being presented: payment rates per product and per hectare of eligible area. The need of redistribution of direct payments is being stressed, followed by the discussion on different scenarios of distribution among Member States. The model finally accepted by the EU...

BACKGROUND Internationally, several initiatives exist to describe standards for post-disaster psychosocial care. OBJECTIVE This study explored the level of consensus of experts within Europe on a set of recommendations on early psychosocial intervention after shocking events (Dutch guidelines), and to what degree these standards are implemented into mental health care practice. METHODS Two ...

A main feature of European fisheries management is a programme to reduce the level of capacity in EU fisheries. A criticism of such programmes is that the remaining fleet can increase their level of fishing effort thereby reducing the benefits from the programme. The extent to which the remaining fleet is capable of increasing effort is partly dependent upon the current level of efficiency of t...

Although Member States retain the primary responsibility for organization and delivery of health services under Article 152 of the EC Treaty, this policy space is still shaped by Community law and policy. The Community did not have legal authority in the field of public health until 1999, when the public health article was amended and renumbered by the Treaty of Amsterdam as the current Article...

Based on a discrete choice experiment with 336 consumers, this study investigated whether the consumer propensity to choose a simplified European Union (EU) vs. non-EU denomination of origin for beef, instead of a specific country-of-origin (COO) denomination, depends upon the amount and type of credence information provided to the individual. The likelihood of choosing the EU/non-EU denominati...

The Italian National Transplant Centre (CNT) is coordinating with the Italian National Blood Centre (CNS) the Joint Action '!' (www.eurocet128.eu), already built the European Tissue Establishment and Tissue and Cell Product Compendia between 2011 and 2014 in order to provide European Member States with a tool which would grant traceability of tissues and cells at human transplant purpose across...

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, millions of people in Europe are still struggling with poverty. This despite the fact that Europe is a relatively economically well-off region. Taking a conventional relative measure of poverty, calculated in terms of income below 60% of the national median, it is estimated that about 16% or 75 million people in the European Union can be termed p...

The European Union budget is subject to a strict annual balanced budget rule. Given different types of expenditure within the budget, this rule has most effect on and is most threatened by spending on the Common Agricultural Policy. This article examines the merits of applying a balanced budget rule to the EU budget and explores the links between the budget and the CAP. The presence of the rule...