European Briefing

Employment and social affairs: European Commission (2005a): Communication to the Spring European Council, Working together for growth and jobs: a New Start for the Lisbon Strategy, COM (2005) 24 of 2 February2004; European Commission (2005b): Delivering on Growth and Jobs: a New and Integrated Economic and Employment Co-ordination Cycle in the EU, SEC (2005) 193 Companion document to the Communication to the Spring European Council 2005, COM (2005) 24. Social agenda: European Commission (2005c): Communication from the Commission on the Social Agenda, COM (2005) 33 of 9 February 2005; Council (1992): Recommendation on the Convergence of social protection objectives and policies, OJ L 245 of 26 August 1992.

Citizenship: Economic migration: European Commission (2005d): Green Paper on an EU approach to managing economic migration, COM (2004) 811 of 11 January 2005; Council of the European Union (2000): Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, OJ L No. 199 of 5 August 2000 and Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, OJ L No. 2 of 5 January 2001. Implementation of The Hague Programme: Council of the European Union (2004): Council Decision 2004/927/EC of 22 December 2004 providing for certain areas covered by Title IV of Part Three of the Treaty establishing the European Community to be governed by the procedure laid down in Article 251 of that Treaty, OJ L No. 396 of 31 December 2004.

Future of the Union: Approval of the draft European Constitution by the European Parliament: European Parliament (2005): Resolution A6-0070- 2004 on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe of 12 January 2005 available at: http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME _LEVEL=1&LEVEL=3&NAV=X&DETAIL=&P UBREF=-//EP//TEXT+TA+20050112+ITEMS+ DOC+XML+V0//EN. Eurobarometer on the draft European Constitution: European Commission (2005e): The future Constitutional Treaty. First results, Eurobarometer, January 2005 available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs214_en_first.pdf).

Relations with the candidate countries: Enlargement: European Parliament (2004): European Parliament resolution A6-0063/2004 on the 2004 regular report and the recommendation of the European Commission on Turkey’s progress towards accession, 15 December 2005; European Council (2004): Brussels European Council. Presidency Conclusions, 16 and 17 December 2004, No. 16238/1/04 REV1. Turkey: European Commission (2004a): Issues arising from Turkey’s membership perspective, SEC (2004) 1202 of 6 October 2004. Romania and Bulgaria: European Commission (2005f): Commission Opinion of 22 February 2005 on the applications for accession to the European Union by the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania of 22 February 2005, COM (2005) 55 of 22 February 2005.

Public services: The ‘services’ draft Directive: European Commission (2004b): Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on services in the internal market, COM (2004) 2 of 13 January 2004; Observatoire Social Européen (2004): The proposal for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market applied to Healthcare Services, Paper presented by Rita Baeten for the public hearing in the European Parliament, 11 November 2004.

Equal opportunities: Report on discrimination against minority groups: European Communities (2005): ‘The situation of Roma in an Enlarged European Union’, European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and European Roma Information Office (ERIO). Office for the Publication of the European Communities, November 2004. Report on equality between women and men 2005: European Commission (2005g): Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on equality between women and men, 2005, COM (2005) 44 final, 14 February 2005.

Social protection: Social security and equality: ruling on family benefits: European Court of Justice (2005): Nils Laurin Effing, C-302/0, 20 January 2005. Joint report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion: European Commission (2005h): Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Joint Report on social protection and social inclusion, presented by the Commission on 27 January 2005.