Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey make significant progress towards accession criteria.  They will be set to meet their goal for the accession by the end of 2007 along with Commission’s support to achieve it (view)

Business meets the new EU.  Internal Market, Taxation and Customs, Making the most of the Internal Market after Enlargement, Euro-Czech Forum Conference (view)

Commission defines approach for promoting high-quality services of general interest.  There is insufficient evidence of the added value of horizontal framework legislation compared to the existing sector-specific framework (view)

Commission Initiates Budgetary Surveillance for Greece.  The Commission report on Greece is adopted on the initiative of Joaquin Almunia, EU Commissioner for economic and monetary affairs (view)

Commission Initiates Budgetary Surveillance for New Member States.  The EU budgetary framework applies to all 25 Member States alike and implies, inter alia, that excessive deficits should be avoided (view)

Commission launches state aid probe with respect to Polish steel company Huta Czestochowa.  The Commission today decided to launch an in-depth probe into restructuring of the Polish steel producer Huta Czestochowa S.A. (view)

Commission proposes a fair and balanced share of the EU budget for Bulgaria and Romania.  The European Commission today proposed to grant Bulgaria and Romania a fair and balanced share of the EU budget after their accession (view)

Commission proposes a new partnership for cohesion in the Enlarged Union.  The Union faces many challenges in the period ahead: the rise of new technologies, the quickening pace of economic change, immigration into our towns and cities from outside the Union (view)

Beyond Enlargement: Commission shifts European Neighbourhood Policy into higher gear.  The Commission has now adopted a "Strategy Paper" proposing how the benefits of enlargement (view)

Connecting Europe at high speed: recent developments in the electronic communications sector.  The implementation of the new regulatory framework for electronic communications (view)

Connecting Europe at high speed: reviewing the eEurope 2005 action plan.  The Action Plan forms the basis for a discussion with Member States and stakeholders with a view to identifying changes by summer 2004 (view)

Enlargement and Institutional changes.  1 May 2004 to 31 October 2004 transitional period (view)

Erkki Liikanen, Creating a predictable legal environment for competitive and innovative electronic communications in the European Union.  A new regulatory framework has to be developed (view)

Erkki Liikanen, Innovation and Opportunities in the Enlarging Europe.  There is a need for innovation and a valuing of local technological inputs and skills in order to maximize win-win situations (view)

IST and Innovation Keeping the Leadership in Mobile Communications.  The current new regulatory framework must respect the continuous convergence between the audio-visual, IT and telecoms sector (view)

Erkki Liikanen, Launching the next step for the Internet IPv6.  A fundamental technology for the future of the deployment of Internet in general, which has been largely promoted in the context of the 5th Framework Programme (view)

Erkki Liikanen; Reinforcing eDemocracy.  Information and Communication Technology, and mainly the Internet could accomplish sustaining and strengthening democracy (view)

Erkki Liikanen, Towards the next Generation Internet.  ICT development will not only have a great impact on the economy (view)

EU Action Plan to Boost Environmental Technologies for Innovation, Growth and Sustainable Development.  The European Commission employed a new action plan in order to enhance Environmental Technologies for innovation, growth and sustainable development, thus to accomplish a wider use and competitiveness of companies (view)

EU budget 2004: a historic budget for the year of enlargement.  The EU budget for 2004 is at 0.98% of EU Gross National income, and leaves € 11.8 billion below the maximum amount for payments originally planned by the financial perspective (view)

Friends of Europe "European Policy Summit on EU Enlargement".  Enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy (view)

Free Movement of Workers after Enlargement.  Free movement of persons is one of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by Community law and includes the right to live and work in another Member State (view)

Interpretation of the Challenge of Enlargement.  The European Union is the most intense, ongoing political and technical conference the world has ever seen (view)

Mobile Communications and the EU's New Regulatory Framework.  The US has been strong in ICT-manufacturing industries and in ICT-adopting services, such as in wholesale and retail trade and in the securities market (view)

New Opportunities for Growth in an Enlarged Europe.  The Information Society ambitions of the EU, new Member States and candidate countries are crucial to the further, effective development of economic integration, social cohesion, and cultural diversity of Europe (view)

Re-organisation of public administrations boosts the quality of online services.  Reorganisation of Government Back Offices for Better Electronic Public Services European Good Practices (view)

Commission opinion for the IGC.  That is the main aim of the Opinion: to offer solutions and where solutions cannot be found, to put forward a basis on which we can address them in future (view)

The Commission puts industry centre stage and reinforces competitiveness in an enlarged European Union.  European Commission sketches the contours of an industrial policy for an enlarged European Union in a Communication adopted today (view)

The First Commission of the New Europe European Parliament.  There are good prospects for the coming European Council in June to succeed in getting things moving again and concluding the Intergovernmental Conference (view)