The European Union (EU) recently committed to becoming ‘the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.’ Active labor market (ALM) policies are a critical part of the European Employment Strategy (EES) – the plan designed to achieve this objective. ALM policies entail several possible externalities that, spilling across national boundaries, may create incentives for Europ...

Based on Paul Feyerabend's distinction between guided and free exchange, the author argues that the accession of the post-communist states to the European Union took the form of the former kind, i.e. the form of communication where all participants in the process voluntarily embrace the meaning of law developed through inter-institutional discourse within the European Union. However, due to the...

Having access to high-quality healthcare is a priority issue for European citizens and is recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. The right to healthcare also encompasses situations where patients travel from one EU Member State to another and receive treatment there. This paper will explore the contradictory relation between the competence of EU Member States to regulate the...

The current debate regarding the future of the European Union (EU) is underpinned by three fundamental assumptions. First, the time has now come, the argument goes, for the EU to define its ‘final’ institutional configuration. Second, this endeavour must not – indeed, cannot – be based on the logic of incrementalism that, by and large, has shaped the development of the European Communities/Unio...

The establishment of the European Common Market has involved the free movement not only of capital and goods, but also of persons and services. The principles of free movement also apply to the health care sector, i.e. they allow for the free incorporation of health care providers and the cross-border delivery of services. Since the 1970s, the European Union (EU) has passed numerous regulations...

This article presents the steps and considerations that led to the development of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control s (ECDC) long-term strategy for the surveillance of communicable diseases in the European Union (EU) for the years 2008 to 2013. Furthermore, it outlines the key features of the strategy that was approved by the ECDC s Management Board in December 2007.

Historical trends and levels of nitrogen (N) budgets and emissions to air and water in the European Union and the United States are markedly different. Agro-environmental policy approaches also differ, with emphasis on voluntary or incentive-based schemes in the United States versus a more regulatory approach in the European Union. This paper explores the implications of these differences for a...

In the time when Republic of Croatia is a candidate to enter European Union (EU), it is proper moment for all members of the Croatian Derma-tovenereological Society to learn more about UEMS-Section DV. The European Union of Medical Specialists – UEMS (Union Européenne des Médecins Spé-cialistes) started its activities in 1958 with the main goal to promote high quality specialist medical care an...

In view of the opening of EU membership negotiations with Turkey on 3 October 2005, this text deals with the debates on the country’s accession to the Union conducted to date both in the European countries and in Turkey itself. The main point of reference are the concepts of European identity that can be derived from the European and Turkish debates. A distinction is made between two lines of a...

BACKGROUND There is a gap in knowledge on long term pace of population aging acceleration and related net-migration rate changes in WHO European Region and its adjacent MENA countries. We decided to compare European Union (EU-28) region with the EU Near Neighborhood Policy Region East and EU Near Neighborhood Policy Region South in terms of these two essential features of third demographic tran...