Legionnaires' disease is underreported in Europe; notification rates differ substantially among countries. Approximately 20% of reported cases are travel-associated. To assess the risk for travel-associated Legionnaires' disease (TALD) associated with travel patterns in European countries, we retrieved TALD surveillance data for 2009 from the European Surveillance System, and tourism denominato...

the eu, which has its roots in the early fifties, in a short time reached nearly all aims to which the founders had refereed. establishing the major institutions and promoting its member states to cooperate in economic, social, political and recently in military issues, the eu is going to attain the old aspiration of the europeans, i.e., a united states of europe. in this regard, the conclusion...

Purpose: The European Union and its European Neighbourhood are mutually dependent. In the next decades, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in response to different challenges. The geographical proximity, economic, cultural and historical links with EU Neighbouring countries make them an important potential source of labour force and, moreover, they are the main countries...

With the Treaty on European Union, signed in 1992, the Union set for itself the objective of establishing the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), ultimately including a single currency. Sustained convergence in economic performance and close co-ordination of Member States’ economic objectives, set out in a timetable, were key elements of this process. Convergence towards low rates of in...

E-commerce that has undergone an increasing trend in recent years has been regarded as the modern method for transfer of information and economic exchange.   This phenomenon brings about massive changes in most of relations between various economic institutions. Such changes have also occurred in tax systems. Hence, the present research aims to investigate effect of E-commerce on tax structure ...

foreign policy cooperation and coordination among the european community member states and presenting europe with a single voice, has long been an important challenge within the european community/european union, especially since early 1970s. in the early 1990s, following the collapse of the ussr and the end of the cold war, there was a general speculation in europe that the ec may be able to p...

To the editor: In their article titled ‘Livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) among human MRSA isolates, European Union/ European Economic Area countries, 2013’, Kinross et al. recently reported on the occurrence of LA-MRSA in humans [1]. The results were obtained by an ECDC initiated study documenting the identification of LA-MRSA (i.e. CC398 and ‘other’ LA-...