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This book makes a number of suggestions for policy changes in Europe to improve the conditions of trade to encourage more sustainable use of the forests. These include better trade regulations, improved socio-environmental assessment of aid projects, a code of conduct for the European timber trade and coordination of international efforts to relate the timber trade to the need for survival of tropical moist forests

As Europe moves towards economic and monetary union, the shortcomings in the de velopment of European social policy will be come more apparent. Thus, although there have been plenty of initiatives affecting work ing conditions and the Social Fund is clearly an important instrument of Commission policy, few policy developments at the European level could be said to have had much effect on redis tribution. This article assesses the scope for a more explicit involvement in social policy, es pecially social protection, by the European tier and considers the consequences of a failure to address this issue. Despite the likely opposition to any proposals to confer some responsibility for social protection on the supranational tier, the need for changes in current arrangements is demonstrated. This article reviews proposals for E U level social protection and discusses obstacles to their implementation, notably the lack of cross-border solidarity. It is argued that the manner in which social protection is dealt with will be an important pointer to the future character of the E U and that this issue needs to be given greater prominence on the political agenda.

How are the decisions made which produce the phenomenal arsenals of nuclear weapons in the world today? Who makes them? To whom are they answerable? What role does Parliament play? These questions have until now been shrouded in mystery. But until the answers to them are widely and openly known, those who are concerned about the build-up of nuclear arsenals cannot know how the process works, and to whom they should address themselves. That is why this book is a breakthrough. It explains, for the first time, how nuclear weapons decisions are made in each of the nuclear nations. The Oxford Research Group has brought together, entirely from non-classified sources, a mass of information to throw light on a hitherto invisible and unaccountable process