Over the past decade, social public services have been subject t o widespread reform and modernisation. Policy development has been in the area of costs, more coordinated provision and responsiveness t o user needs. At both national and EU levels, the importance of these services has been...

There is increasing interest in the financial participation of employees in their enterprises within the European Union. The PEPPER II report of the European Commission, published in 1996, concluded that there is more diversity than unity in the use of financial participation schemes across the...

The European Community's Fifth Environmental Action Programme defines sustainable development as 'continued economic and social development without detriment to the environment and the natural resources, on the quality of which continued human activity and further development depend'. Throughout...