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This text explores strategies at the national level that could succeed in maintaining welfare state goals even under conditions of international economic competition. It discusses the conditions under which European policy could play a protective and enabling role with regard to these solutions

This article explores some of the debates surrounding the gendered impact of both the democratisation process & European Union enlargement on the countries of Central & Eastern Europe. It focuses on three key issues of gender-equitable citizenship: debates about the best mechanisms for achieving gender equality in mainstream politics; questions about the efficacy of civil society activism in relation to mainstream politics; & the pros & cons of gender mainstreaming as a key component of EU enlargement. It also raises the question of the most appropriate frame for achieving more gender-equitable societies: the nation-state or supra-national institutions such as the European Union.

These stories1 come from the European Network on Statelessness - a civil society alliance currently with 53 member organisations in 33 countries - which is gathering case-studies for a campaign that seeks to put a human face on statelessness and demonstrate why further policy action is needed to improve the protection of stateless people. The campaign is organising a petition (available online from 28 May 2014) calling on European leaders to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (in those countries which have yet to do so) and to commit to establishing a statelessness determination procedure. www.statelessness.eu. Adapted from the source document.

European Union / Karsten Metzlaff and Mark Abell -- Austria / Dr. Benedikt Spiegelfeld -- Belgium / Pascal Hollander -- Bulgaria / Boyko Gerginov -- Croatia / Carla Biancotti and Sanja Tkalec-Kovac -- Czech Republic Petr Mrazek -- Denmark / Paul Neale -- Finland / Hanna-Maija Elo -- France / Gilles Menguy -- Germany / Marco Hero -- Greece / Yanos Gramatidis-- Hungary / Dr. Judit Budai -- Ireland / Imelda Reynolds -- Italy / Aldo Frignani-- The Netherlands / Martine de Koning -- Norway / Endre Storlokken -- Poland / Magdalena Karpinska -- Portugal / Manuel P. Barrocas -- Romania / Corin Trandafir -- Spain / Rocio Belda de Mergelina -- Sweden / Anders Fernlund -- Switzerland / Dr. Christoph Wildhaber -- Turkey / Hikmet Koyuncuoglu -- The United Kingdom / Chris Wormald