Denna studie ifrågasätter tre centrala antaganden som ligger bakom EU: s strukturpolitik och hävdar att de regionala skillnaderna i EU-15 är mycket mindre än de normalt uppges vara, att de strukturpolitiska åtgärderna har en mycket begränsad påverkan på konvergens, och att konvergens har en mycket begränsad inverkan på sammanhållningen. Tre alternativ till den nuvarande politiska ramen förtjänar allvarlig diskussion.

This paper describes and analyses various processes of reform currently being discussed and taking place in and around the Council and the European Council, two central institutions of the European Union. Proposed and actual changes in their structure and functioning will affect not only these institutions, but also the EU as a whole.

The purpose of the report is to examine how the EU enlargement in 2004 affects industrial structures and industry location. Even though the focus is on Sweden, effects on the European level are also scrutinised.

The aim of the report is to describe the rise in member state cooperation on asylum politics and to analyse factors that have promoted or impeded this cooperation. Moreover, the report contains a general theoretical discussion on what might explain the interest shown by the states in cooperation on asylum politics.

When the European Convention began its work, the open method of coordination (OMC) was not one of the central issues. However, open coordination cropped up in different working groups of the Convention, slowly but steadily.

The aim of this report is to identify some of those features which, since they are shared by all or some of the existing agencies, are essential in order to explain their legal nature and to highlight some problems that should be addressed in the process leading up to the adoption of a new constitutional treaty. At present, the role of decentralized agencies is premised on the Court of Justice’s idea of an institutional balance of powers, requiring an EU-institution to assume full responsibility.

The report examines the economic effects of institutional choices and how the decision-making rules in the European Union affects policy with regard to expenditures and expenditure structures. The report covers a number of areas, including constitutional problems tackled by the Convent.

In connection with the conclusions reached at the meeting of the European Council in Nice in 2000, it was stated that a clearer distribution of decision-making powers between the EU and its member states should be discussed. A catalogue of competences defines who, or which level, has the authority to make decisions on specific matters.

Transatlantic relations have seen the most dramatic crisis ever, over the issue of how to deal with Iraq. The author argues that the various transatlantic quarrels of recent years are rooted in different developments during the past decade concerning the notion and effect of the concept of national sovereignty.