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.

Taking a look at the first ten years of the single market programme SMP and reflecting on its impact on the functioning of product markets in the European Union. In the ongoing market integration process and the product market reforms, what are the impacts and strategic behaviours?.

Published in context with the the Commission Communication COM(2003)283 final, this fourth annual report on public finances in EMU forms part of Commission efforts to upgrade the analysis and surveillance of fiscal policies in EMU and to place emphasis on the quality and sustainability of public...

As part of the research project on the social implications of EMU, the Foundation commissioned a literature review which would focus on the relationship between EMU and reforms in the public sector. The study provides an overview of the policies and structure of the public sector in 10 Member...

The Euratom Treaty, establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, governs primarily the activities of the European Union (EU) in the field of nuclear energy. The nuclear fission-related research activities co-sponsored by the European Commission are managed by the Directorate-General for...

Throughout the EU there is a growing recognition that standards of occupational safety and health in construction have to be improved. Each year, in the original EU-15 Member States alone, about 1300 workers are killed, another 800,000 injured and countless more suffer ill health1. The human...

A study to perform an uncertainty analysis of the European accident consequence assessment system, Cosyma, has been carried out under contract to the European Commission. The study involved a series of analysis of the uncertainty in different sections of the system, followed by a final analysis...