/library/oar/handle/123456789/4766 2026-08-04T04:16:41Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/4854 Title: A Europe of regions and cities : strategies and prospects for EU enlargement : (part II on Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey) Abstract: Since the opening of accession negotiations in February 2000 with six new candidate countries (Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania and Slovakia), as decided by the Helsinki European Council, the Committee of the Regions entered in a pre-accession dialogue with the regions and cities of these countries as well as making initial contacts with those of Turkey. The CoR has had a key contribution to make to the success of the forthcoming EU enlargement due to its closeness to citizens and to its natural links with the local and regional elected representatives of the applicant countries. Indeed, the CoR first made contact with elected representatives of the candidate countries in 1997. These relations have been formalized through the establishment of a number of joint committees for the Association Council with representatives of local and regional authorities of candidate countries, and the CoR now plans to welcome these colleagues as observers. The local and regional authorities of the applicant countries have a major role to play in developing modem democracy in their countries and implementing pre-enlargement institutional reforms. In addition, the success of accession to the European Union relies on a better preparation and information of the citizens of these countries, and here again local and regional authorities have high responsibilities. And we know their role will grow further, especially with the process of devolution currently underway in these countries. This study complements the first CoR study "A Europe of Regions and Cities - Strategies and Prospects for EU Enlargement" on the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Cyprus published in 2000. It highlights significant differences with the countries dealt with in the first study in particular a strong history of centralism. However, there are positive driving forces to decentralisation and regionalisation to be seen, such as a convergence of regional identities and regional administrative structures. Description: Acknowledgement: The University of Malta would like to acknowledge its gratitude to the Committee of the Regions of the European Union for their permission to upload this work on OAR@UoM. Further reuse of this document can be made, provided the source is acknowledged. This work was made available with the help of the Publications Office of the European Union, Copyright and Legal Issues Section. 2002-10-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/4850 Title: Documentation of Eurostat's database on international migration : central European countries, Cyprus and Malta Abstract: This working paper is one of a series which describes the contents, updating and documentation of the Eurostat database on international migration. The data described here are available on request from Eurostat, (see part 9 for further details about how and from where to request these data together with any or all of the relevant Eurostat publications). The series of working papers has been produced to help users and providers of the revised database as it becomes available in it's entirety on New Cronos, the on-line user interface to the database. Each individual paper describes the contents of one part of the database. This one provides an overview and detailed description of the available data for the Central and Eastern European countries. The text is the documentation provided by the MRU to accompany the revised and extended dataset on migration. Description: Acknowledgement: The University of Malta would like to acknowledge its gratitude to the European Commission. Eurostat for their permission to upload this work on OAR@UoM. Further reuse of this document can be made, provided the source is acknowledged. This work was made available with the help of the Publications Office of the European Union, Copyright and Legal Issues Section. 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z