Statistical data shows that a large number of maritime accidents are related to recreational craft. For instance, in Spain, more than fifty percent of the emergencies are related to pleasure boats at sea. Recreational craft marketed in the EU must comply with harmonized technical safety and environmental requirements defined by Directive 94/25/EC, as amended in 2003....

The aim of this paper is to reflect the situation of health legislation alignment in Turkey in its accession process to the European Union and Customs Union Agreement, and to discuss the the EU's health priorities of in parallel with the Turkish ones. The health legislation alignment processes consist of three titles which are: European Union alignment process, the harmonization done in the fra...

This issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) sees the first of a new bimonthly section of articles entitled the European Lung Corner. The European Lung Corner will introduce topics of European Union (EU) affairs relevant to respiratory medicine and science. As you may or may not be aware, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) has an office in Brussels, Belgium, situated in the heart of...

European Union Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas recently hailed 'upgraded' non-genetically modified (GM) crops as an alternative to GM crops. A comparative analysis of the environmental risks associated with such non-GM herbicide-resistant crops and GM herbicide-resistant crops is presented here. The analysis highlights serious weaknesses in the European Union (EU) regulatory fram...

European), a failure (L’Echo), a betrayer of ambitions (De Standaard), a result that nobody wanted (Libération), a wound leaving Europe disabled (Le Soir). In such a mood one would be eager hastily to throw away in the stream the failing EU and its unfinished Treaty. However, this would amount to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Wisdom does not advise anybody to do so but rather to com...

the european :union: has aspired to create an “ever closer :union:” among its people since the articulation of the european :union: citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. however, attempts at creating this “ever closer :union:” have focused on homogenizing european citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. gend...

B y providing free access for European medical specialists to the European job market via two relevant directives (issued in 1975 and 2005), the European Union (EU) has effected an automatic recognition of the diplomas and certificates of qualification in medicine in all member countries. This is only acceptable on the basis of harmonised training standards across the entire EU. Thus, it is man...

Social and economic policies are inextricably linked with population health outcomes in Europe, yet few datasets are able to fully explore and compare this relationship across European countries. The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey aims to address this gap using microdata on income, living conditions and health. EU-SILC contains both cross-sectional an...

Defense counsel in European antitrust proceedings have long bemoaned the fact that "fundamental rights" did not effectively find their way into the fabric of the rights of the defence, despite their appearance in the European Convention on Human Rights (the "EHCR"). Many had hoped that this situation would change with the embodiment of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union int...

Using a GARCH model we provide evidence that higher inflation uncertainty leads to higher inflation in the new European Union (EU) member states and candidate countries only prior to EU accession. During EU accession and entry inflation uncertainty has no effect on mean inflation. This result supports the consideration of policy regime shifts in assessing the nominal uncertainty-average inflati...