One of the most important aspects of the pending free market of the European Community of 1992 is the free movement of labor among the 12 Member States. Without a fairly even level of social security development, such free movement of workers could produce large social and economic dislocations due to the unevenness of economic development within the Community. Portugal, one of the lesser devel...

This Article attempts to provide a practical guide to individuals attempting to determine which mergers and acquisitions fall under Community jurisdiction. Part I reviews the basic considerations the European Economic Community Regulation No. 4064/89 gives to the term “Community dimension.” Part II examines the separation of jurisdiction between the Commission of the European Communities and th...

According to the European Foundation economic incentive methods can be described as methods which financially reward those enterprises that ensure and develop good and safe working conditions (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1995). In recent years European policy makers have become more and more interested in economic instruments such as economic incent...

A Plan for a European Economic Community was developed at the University of Berlin in 1942. There are striking similarities with that introduced 1957—and which became foundation stone Union. Particularly is innate hostility both to liberal economic values and democracy—a permeates EU this very day.