Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (December 1, 2003)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Albania.			320
Austria.		Brief Article	302
Belarus.			380
Belgium.			436
Bosnia and Herzegovina.			463
Bulgaria.			353
Containing the flow: in 1992, a European Commission survey found that 20 million people in Central and Eastern Europe wanted to emigrate to Western Europe. And, it's estimated that at least half a million people enter the EU illegally every year. While many believe legal immigration needs to be easier, others say it's important to manage the flow carefully.			929
Creating the superstate: the European Commission is a huge bureaucracy that administers the EU. Some see it as a positive force for the closer economic, political, and social integration of member states; others see it as a tyrannical and wasteful paper-shuffling machine.			2466
Croatia.		Brief Article	261
Cyprus.			380
Czech Republic.			347
Denmark.			350
Economic indicators.			750
Estonia.			334
Euro facts.		Brief Article	218
Finland.		Brief Article	301
France.			517
Germany.			482
Greece.		Brief Article	235
Growing pains.			2527
Hungary.			442
Ireland.			380
Italy.			365
Latvia.			326
Lithuania.			362
Luxembourg.			349
Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic.			328
Malta.			308
Moldova.			385
Netherlands.			371
Norway.			387
Notes and websites.			356
Poland.			440
Portugal.			365
Quote ... unquote.		Brief Article	279
Romania.			374
Serbia/Montenegro.			383
Slovakia.			351
Slovenia.			345
Social indicators.			738
Spain.			410
Sweden.			416
Switzerland.			400
The (almost) single market: the euro is now the currency used by 12 of the European Union's current 15 members; its common usage across national borders is an important step towards the creation of one, Europewide economy.			2486
The power of unity: Europe has come a long way in the last half century. It has been transformed from a group of war-torn countries to a continent some think is a good model for the rest of the world.			314
Transatlantic misalliance: for more than a century, the Transatlantic Alliance has been a cornerstone of foreign policy in North America and Europe.			2496
Turkey.			554
Ukraine.			490
United Kingdom.			438
Whither Europe? In the spring of 2003, Europeans got a first look at a blueprint for their continent's future in the form of a draft constitution for the European Union.			1919