Policy Note and Recommendations This document will be examined under item 3 "Main discussion blocks: Removal of Obstacles at Border Crossings" of the draft Agenda for the Ljubljana Council of Ministers. Ministers are invited to discuss the Policy Note and agree the Recommendations.

Two years after signing the Bologna Declaration and three years after the Sorbonne Declaration, European Ministers in charge of higher education, representing 32 signatories, met in Prague in order to review the progress achieved and to set directions and priorities for the coming years of the process. Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the objective of establishing the European Higher Ed...

Scholars and commentators increasingly wonder whether governments’ failure to address socio-economic inequalities is the result of unequal representation. Recent literature on policy responsiveness in United States Europe finds evidence that party parliamentary proposals actual outcomes are closer preferences rich than poor. However, extent character such representation remains thinly understoo...

In June 1991, 36 of Europe's environment ministers and deputies met at Czechoslovakia's Dobris Casde, near Prague, to discuss the environmental status of their nations. During the unprecedented conference, the ministers called for the preparation of a comprehensive report on Europe's extensive environmental problems. In August 1995, the European Environment Agency Task Force (a branch of the Eu...