Europe-East articles from November 2001

Europe-East archives from November 2001

ENLARGEMENT: COMMISSION PROMISES ACTION PLAN TO PREPARE CANDIDATES.
November 27, 2001... The European Commission is introducing a new action plan to help the candidate countries bring their administrative and judicial capacity up to EU standards in time for accession of as many as ten of them by 2004. This is the major novelty in...

EU/BULGARIA: ASSOCIATION COUNCIL OFFERS SOME CONGRATULATIONS.
November 27, 2001... The EU-Bulgaria Association Council held its seventh meeting on 20 November, in Brussels. The meeting was chaired by Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Belgium and President-in-Office of the Council of the...

EU-POLAND: ASSOCIATION COUNCIL BRINGS BACK CIMOSZEWICZ.(Brief Article)
November 27, 2001... The EU-Poland Association Council, which met in Brussels on 20 November, was remarkable more for the news that Poland was revising its earlier tough stance on land acquisition and freedom of movement of workers (see separate story in this...

EU-CZECH REPUBLIC: ASSOCIATION COUNCIL.(Brief Article)
November 27, 2001... Jan Kavan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and an almost weekly visitor to Brussels these days, headed the Czech delegation at the meeting of the EU-Czech Association Council on November 20. The Council welcomed the efforts...

EVALUATION OF TACIS ENTERPRISE RESTRUCTURING FACILITY.(Technical Assistance for Commonwealth of Independent States)(Brief Article)
November 27, 2001... The European Commission's own evaluation unit has carried out an assessment of the TACIS Enterprise Restructuring Facility (TERF) between 1998 and the present. It found that overall relevance and choice of partners were appropriate, but the...

THE COMMISSION'S REPORTS ON THE CANDIDATES.
November 27, 2001... On November 13 the European Commission issued its annual reports on the pre-accession progress made by each of the 13 candidate countries for EU membership. The overall strategy of the Commission in this exercise is reported inside this issue...