DG Enlargement | Directorate-General for Enlargement

DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations | Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations | DG NEAR [Abbr.]

Directorate-General C - Foreign Affairs, Enlargement and Civil Protection | Directorate-General K - Foreign Affairs Council, Enlargement, Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection | DG C [Abbr.] | DG K [Abbr.]

president and chief executive officer | chairman and chief executive officer | chairman of the board and chief executive officer | chairman and managing director | president and general manager

Definition: The essential feature is recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive acts. Obsessional thoughts are ideas, images, or impulses that enter the patient's mind again and again in a stereotyped form. They are almost invariably distressing and the patient often tries, unsuccessfully, to resist them. They are, however, recognized as his or her own thoughts, even though they are involuntary and often repugnant. Compulsive acts or rituals are stereotyped behaviours that are repeated again and again. They are not inherently enjoyable, nor do they result in the completion of inherently useful tasks. Their function is to prevent some o ...[+++]bjectively unlikely event, often involving harm to or caused by the patient, which he or she fears might otherwise occur. Usually, this behaviour is recognized by the patient as pointless or ineffectual and repeated attempts are made to resist. Anxiety is almost invariably present. If compulsive acts are resisted the anxiety gets worse. | anankastic neurosis obsessive-compulsive neurosis

Definition: These are severe disturbances in the personality and behavioural tendencies of the individual; not directly resulting from disease, damage, or other insult to the brain, or from another psychiatric disorder; usually involving several areas of the personality; nearly always associated with considerable personal distress and social disruption; and usually manifest since childhood or adolescence and continuing throughout adulthood.

Staffing Programs Branch [ Staffing and Management Category Programs | Management Category Programs Branch | Senior Excutive Programs Branch ]

Natural Resources and Economic Development Branch [ Northern Environment Directorate | Northern Environmental Protection and Renewable Resources Branch | Northern Natural Resources and Environment Branch | Northern Economic Development Branch | Resource and Economic Development Group ]

executive vice president | executive vice-president | senior vice president | senior vice-president

top management approach

(c) it is not, however, necessary to strip the Commission Directorates-General of all their external relations responsibilities; particularly in fields where the Commission has executive powers, the integrity of current Community policies with an external dimension should be preserved; the Commission, striving to avoid duplication, should provide a specific model for the departments concerned, such as the Directorates-General for trade, enlargement and development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States, EuropeAid, ...[+++]the European Community Humanitarian Office, the department for Human Rights and Democracy, the department for Election Assistance, and the externally oriented units of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs;

(c) it is not, however, necessary to strip the Commission Directorates-General of all their external relations responsibilities; particularly in fields where the Commission has executive powers, the integrity of current Community policies with an external dimension should be preserved; the Commission should provide a specific model for the departments concerned, such as the Directorates-General for trade, enlargement and development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States, EuropeAid, the European Community Humanitar ...[+++]ian Office, the department for Human Rights and Democracy, the department for Election Assistance, and the externally oriented units of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs;

Nevertheless, I would like to emphasise that the last two EU enlargement rounds have created a new outlook towards development cooperation policy and its inextricable link to the European Neighbourhood Policy, the latter being the direct result of enlargement.

This option aims at a higher degree of ambition in improving the conditions and rights of the groups covered by existing Directives, extending the scope of the Directive to au-pairs and remunerated trainees and introducing specific admission conditions to ensure better protection for them.