The European union funding for job creation and a sustainable and healthy EU economy and environment is channelled through the five EU structural and investment funds. Although there is EU categorization system for EU projects, EU countries apply their own different categorization systems. Some EU countries already apply European categorization system, but many do not. As a result, many project...

Context Although the EU Council stated[1] that “All health systems in the EU aim to make provision, which is patient-centered and responsive to individual need”, numerous sources show important and unacceptable differences in access to orphan drugs in the Member States of the European Union (EU COM [2], EURORDIS [3,4], BE EU Presidency [5,8], EU Council [6]). With this regard, in the context of...

There is currently no empirical evidence on whether or not the use of childlike sex dolls would prevent encourage sexual abuse children. Yet, more and countries prohibit contemplate prohibiting these objects, EU Commission also announced it consider this issue in context fight against child abuse. This article describes compares laws policies five which are banned: Australia, Germany, Denmark, ...

Novel organo-Eu(III) luminophores, Eu(hfa)x(CPO)y and Eu(hfa)x(TCPO)y (hfa: hexafluoroacetylacetonate, CPO: 4-carboxyphenyl diphenyl phosphine oxide, TCPO: 4,4',4″-tricarboxyphenyl phosphine oxide), were synthesized by the complexation of Eu(III) ions with hfa moieties and CPO or TCPO ligands. The thermal and luminescent stabilities of the luminophores are extremely high. The decomposition temp...

Based on a discrete choice experiment with 336 consumers, this study investigated whether the consumer propensity to choose a simplified European Union (EU) vs. non-EU denomination of origin for beef, instead of a specific country-of-origin (COO) denomination, depends upon the amount and type of credence information provided to the individual. The likelihood of choosing the EU/non-EU denominati...

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has been working on matters related to occupational health problems in 15 European Union (EU) member states. EU-OSHA established 10 topic centers on work and health research in 1998. One of the topic centers is assigned for research and information on work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The present report is written because such ac...

The growth of regional trade blocks has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. Regional agreements vary widely but, all have the objective of reducing barriers to trade between member countries that in most cases result in increasingly trade flows and economic growth. This paper attempts to explore the results of trade integration in ECO, EU and OIC block...