The overall aim of this project has been to derive quantitative thermodynamic and kinetic algorithms and use them to develop personal computer based programs that can predict microstructural development as a series of contours around welds. The work has covered both single- and multi-pass...

The final industrial goal of this project is to develop a technology for high productivity casting of small round section bars (85 mm diameter) with ultrafine solidification structure that means equiaxed structure with very low segregation. The final target is to reach productivity per strand of...

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...

The European Parliament adopted the report by Richard Corbett and Iñigo Méndez de Vigo on 12 January 2005 by 500 votes to 137, with 40 abstentions: it has approved the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe and "wholeheartedly supports its ratification".