The European Commission has proposed guidelines for EU research policy from 2007 on

The European Commission has published a Green Paper on equality and non-discrimination in an enlarged European Union

The third summit between the EU and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean took place in Guadalajara on 28-29 May

According to Jacques Barrot, European Commissioner, solidarity, social and economic progress and greater cohesion among the citizens of the European Union constitute key EU objectives. It is a goal set by the founding treaty of the European Union, which speaks of the need to ?reduce the differences existing between the various regions and the backwardness of the less favoured regions?.

Although less well known than other EU institutions, the European Court of Justice is one of the motors driving the integration process