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Editorial

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DOI10.1177/138826270300500101
Date01 March 2003
Published date01 March 2003
AuthorMichael Adler
Subject MatterEditorial
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This Special Issue of the Journal contains a selection of papers presented at
the Annual Conference of the European Institute of Social Security (EISS)
last year. The theme of the conference, which took place in Jena on 3-5
October 2002 was ‘EU Enlargement and Social Security’. EU Enlargement is
a particularly topical issue since, at the December meeting of the European
Union in Copenhagen, most Central and Eastern European countries
(CEECs) were virtually guaranteed accession to the European Union on
1 May 2004.
The conference, which included an excursion to neighbouring Weimar –
birthplace of Max Weber and home of Goethe and Schiller – was extremely
well organised by Professor Eberhard Eichenho¨fer and his assistants, who
succeeded in creating a very congenial and friendly atmosphere. The papers
were interesting and informative and dealt with the institutional, economic
and social aspects of EU enlargement, the current state of negotiations,
changes brought about by the collapse of communism and the transforma-
tion of command economies in central and eastern Europe, the agreements
made prior to enlargement between the EU and the CEEC and the
problems of frontier regions. Many of these problems were looked at both
from the perspective of the Member States and from that of the Accession
States and papers were presented by young experts as well as by established
figures.
It was not an easy task to select papers for inclusion in the Special Issue. After
giving the matter a great deal of thought, two very interesting pairs of papers
were selected. The papers by Katharine Mu
¨ller and Bernard Casey dealt with
the impact on pensions of the liberalisation of the economies of a number of
Eastern European accession states and assessed the influence of the EU and
the World Bank. Those by Klaus Sieveking and Elspeth Guild focused on the
accession treaties and sought to identify what aspects of social security they
would – and would not – include. Unfortunately, due to a...

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