This major report highlights the positive contribution that the euro has made to macroeconomic stability over the past five years, as well as its key role in accelerating economic integration in Europe.

On 20 October 2004 the Commission adopted the convergence report 2004, which re-assessed the conditions for adopting the euro in Sweden. This re-examination was seized as an opportunity to analyze also the situation in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,...

This report is presented in accordance with Article 45(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 laying down general provisions on the Structural Funds. It is the fifteenth annual report on the implementation of the Structural Funds, covering activities during 2003. Following the work begun in 2001 and...