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Quatre ans après la signature de l’accord d’association comportant une zone de libre-échange approfondi et complet entre l’Union et l’Ukraine et deux eux après sa pleine entrée en vigueur, le Parlement évalue aujourd’hui sa mise en œuvre. Le rapport de la commission des affaires étrangères salue un certain nombre d’évolutions positives en Ukraine, mais met également en lumière des lacunes. Le Parlement débattra à ce sujet lors de sa période de session de décembre.

This paper explores the risk of precarious work in privatised utilities, based on data analysis and literature review. It examines the history of privatisation of utilities in the EU including programme countries and the impact that this has had on levels of employment. Moreover, it presents a range of measures to cushion adverse effects. This document was prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee.

SOEs continue to play a key role in China's political economy, although after more than three decades of experimental and gradual reforms, aimed at preserving rather than eliminating them, their economic significance in terms of output, profit and employment has diminished with the expansion of the private sector. Since the Chinese government uses SOEs as a tool to pursue social, industrial and foreign policy objectives, they benefit from direct and indirect subsidies for factor costs (notably capital ...

This overview of the current situation and trends in the Turkish transport sector was prepared to provide information to the Parliamentary Delegation to Turkey (7-9 April 2015).

Water privatisation stirs up fierce debate. Some level of private sector involvement can be found in the water sector throughout the EU. However, liberalisation has not necessarily followed.

The European Union started a process of gradual reform of the postal market in the 1990s. The Postal Directive adopted in 1997 and its amendments in 2002 and 2008 will achieve full market opening for postal services by 31 December 2010 or, for eleven Member States, by 31 December 2012. Six Member States have already fully liberalised their markets. Although not imposed by the Postal Directive, many Member States also combined their national postal market liberalisation with the transformation of ...

The volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Russia in Montenegro is the subject of much rumour and public debate in the young state. The study examines the importance of Russian direct investment, specifically in the corporate sector and in the real estate, and touches upon Russia's role as foreign trade partner and source of tourists for Montenegro. The exercise is complicated by the existence of multiple channels of investment for Russian capital, as well as by the lack of consistent and ...

The results of privatisation in developing countries have proven very disappointing. Many obstacles which have appeared are related both to the characteristics of the economic, social and institutional environment and to the practical conditions of their implementation. The analysis based on case studies of privatisation of agricultural sectors and services makes it possible to present a nuanced evaluation, to highlight several recurrent characteristics of ongoing reforms and to propose a series ...

Les ports européens, qui ont désormais vocation de plate-formes intermodales, ont subi dans la dernière décennie d'importants processus de libéralisation et de développement technologique. La croissance, qui en a découlé, s'est accompagnée de problèmes de surcapacité.