A strong European technology partnership to move towards the hydrogen economy.  European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology" Platform, whose Advisory Council includes key players of the European hydrogen sector (view)

Agreements reached at Estonia's accession negotiations with the European Union.  All following agreements are based on European Union law – the acquis communautaire (view)

Bilateral Relations EU-Cyprus.  Financial co-operation and Pre-Accession Assistance (view)

Bulgaria and the European Union.  The European Council has set 2007 as the target date for Bulgaria's EU accession (view)

Bulgaria Towards EU Accession.  Commission's final recommendation on the readiness of Bulgaria (view)

Croatia: Commission recommends opening of accession negotiations.  

Communicating Science.  Yet, over 200 big research projects have recently been launched by the EU, some of them with a budget of over €30 million (view)

Communication Strategy for the Preparation of Bulgaria for Membership in the European Union.  The integration of Bulgaria in the European Union is a key priority in the programme of the government (view)

Community support for eGovernment projects in Acceding Countries.  Commission services investigate the possibility to provide guidance on priorities for eGovernment projects for regional development in Accession Countries (view)

Economic survey of the Slovak Republic in 2004.  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (view)

Education and Training in Poland.  Polish higher education is provided by 110 institutions for 495 thousand people (view)

Education and Training System in Romania.  The most important point in the national educational strategy is the reform of education and public vocational training (view)

Commission takes second legal step against eight Member States for not adopting new privacy rules for digital networks and services.  The second stage in infringement proceedings involves sending reasoned opinions to Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Finland (view)

Estonia and EU Relations.  These agreements provide a basis for regular discussions on specific issues, high-level meetings of senior officials, and the implementation of pre-accession assistance (view)

EU Action Plan to Boost Environmental Technologies for Innovation, Growth and Sustainable Development.  The European Commission today adopted an ambitious Action Plan to improve the development and wider use of environmental technologies (view)

EU and Latvia Relations.  According to a Latvian opinion poll in February 2004, EU support has decreased to 55% (view)

EU and Slovenia Relations.  Pre-accession assistance to Slovenia on an annual basis from the three Community instruments (view)

EU and Ukraine Summit.  The Wider Europe initiative sets out an ambitious vision for upgrading political and economic relations with the neighbours of the enlarged EU (view)

EU Moves Quickly on Cyprus.  EU has acted rapidly to give new impetus to integration moves (view)

European Ombudsman continues accession tour with visit to Latvia.  The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, will visit Latvia on 15 and 16 April on the latest leg of his tour of the accession countries (view)

European Ombudsman to visit Lithuania on the latest leg of his accession tour.  The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, will visit Lithuania from 19 to 21 April on the latest leg of his tour of the accession countries (view)

European Research Network extended to the Balkans with EU Support.  Basically, this paper is based on a new network, so called SEREN that could improve the online access for researchers, thus enabling them to participate and integrate of the Balkan research community in the European Research Area (view)

EU’s relations with Ukraine.  Summit meetings & Cooperation councils, Political and legal foundations, Technical Assistance (view)

First EU Twinning Project Prepared at Regional Level.  The twinning project started in November 2003 and will be finished in April 2005 (view)

Re-organisation of Public Administrations Boosts the Quality of Online Services.  Public administrations that combine the use of information and communication technologies to deliver new services with the substantial reorganisation (view)

The Commission Welcomes the Adoption of a Programme of Financial and Technical Assistance to Third Countries in the Area of Migration and Asylum.  The new programme is intended as a specific, additional response in order to provide technical and financial assistance to third countries and support their efforts to manage all aspects of migration flows more effectively (view)

Quality of Higher Education – the Most Important Ukrainian Government Task.  Ukraine is an educational state with the wide network of educational institutions (view)

Green light for EUR 250 million rural development programmes for the Czech Republic.  This political agreement concludes the Commission negotiations to launch the Structural Funds Programming for the Czech Republic for the period 2004-2006 (view)

Improvements in the environment for small businesses as Member States learn from each other's strengths.  Member States have made very significant and imperative improvements in the environment for small businesses regarding access to finance, innovation and technology transfer, and consulting small businesses (view)

Information Note of the European Court of Auditors on Special Report No 1/2004 concerning the management of indirect RTD actions under the 5th Framework Programme (FP5) for Research and Technological Development.  FP5 experienced significant organisational problems and delays in the starting phase, beginning with the late adoption of the Decision by the Council and Parliament (view)

Lithuania-EU Relations.  The main steps towards EU membership (view)

Milestones in the relations between the EU and Albania.  

Reinforcing eDemocracy.  The objective of the seminar was to “take stock of eDemocracy experiments, to exchange views on results achieved and challenges, and to learn for future research in a dialogue of researchers, policy makers and practitionersâ€� (view)

No Reunification for Cyprus.  The last-minute attempts to reunite Cyprus before it joined the EU have failed (view)

Croatia: Opinion on the application of Croatia for membership of the European Union.  

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.  Slovakia is engaged in an ambitious reform process which has the potential to quicken productivity growth (view)

Poland on the Road to Accession.  Indeed, accession is much more a large-scale social process than an administrative one (view)

Short Version: The Commission Welcomes the Adoption of a Programme of Financial and Technical Assistance to Third Countries in the Area of Migration and Asylum.  A multi-annual cooperation programme was developed in order to establish the financial and technical assistance to third countries (view)

Short Version: Re-organisation of Public Administrations Boosts the Quality of Online Services.  The success of eGovernment depends on the right combination of ICT, re-organisation and training (view)

The Commission proposes a goodwill package to bring northern part of Cyprus closer to the EU.  This initiative responds to the request of the European Council of Copenhagen in December 2002, and consists of financial assistance worth €12 million (view)

The Commission puts industry centre stage and reinforces competitiveness in an enlarged European Union.  It sets out how the Commission intends to take forward its new pro-active approach to competition on the eve of enlargement (view)

Speech by Romano Prodi - President of the European Commission.  

EC’s Demands for rapid Technological Change.  The European Commission proposed a number of initiatives which aim to encourage co-operation among Member States in order to raise standards of accessible, high quality healthcare (view)

Hungary and EU Relations.  The main steps towards EU-membership (view)

The relations between the Czech Republic and the European Union.  define the relations between the Czech Republic and the European Union and lay down the rules and regulations to be respected by both sides (view)

The Western Balkans: The Road to Europe.  

Towards a knowledge based Europe.  The European Union and the information society (view)

Romania organises training course on FP6 proposal writing.  The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth and the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding (view)

With whom are we negotiating.  Accession’ Negotiations (view)