EU Agreements with the Ceec — Achievements and Problems with Special Refference to the Free Movement of Persons and Services and to Freedom of Establishment
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EU Agreements with the Ceec — Achievements and Problems with Special Refference to the Free Movement of Persons and Services and to Freedom of Establishment
This article focuses on two questions that have proved particularly difficult to settle in the accession negotiations between the EU and ten Central and Eastern European Countries. The article begins with a survey of the present status of EU associations and then seeks to identify the distinctive characteristics of the proposed association relations, as distinct from the existing association relations. It then analyses the two questions: the first of these involves the free movement of workers and related aspects of social legislation while the second deals with the implementation of freedom of establishment which is already possible under the EU Agreements.
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