European competition policy has a dual objective: to prevent Member States from distorting competition by giving favoured treatment to certain enterprises; to prevent firms from carving up markets by erecting new barriers to trade. The policy aims to defend the interests of the consumer and, in ...
The need to prepare society to live with and draw the maximum advantage from the new technologies. As the report from the FAST group pointed out, the stakes are enormous, both economically, socially and culturally. The European Commission will extend its existing programme of studies and dialogu...
In 1983 the European Community and the European Investment Bank borrowed 6.2 billion ECU on the capital markets of the Community's Member States as well as in the United States, Japan, Switzerland and other countries. This money, together with cash held in reserve, financed soft loans totalling ...