Headlines:

• The Regions play an important role in promoting Employment
• Help for SMEs
• First steps towards decentralisation in Great Britain
• The Amsterdam Treaty >Ratification in progress
• 350 years of the Treaty of Westphalia
• East-West Cooperation >Preparing the regions for EU enlargement
• Social and employment affairs >The need for interregional action
• Education & training >Creating partnerships and networks
• Financial aid for candidate countries
• Pre-accession financial aid for agriculture
• Pre-accession Structural Instrument
• The key role of the Phare programme
• Ecos-Ouverture: Call for proposals – 1998 to 2000
• The reform of the Structural Funds is launched
• Employment and the regions >Creation of a data base
• The Mediterranean >Action for the prevention of fires
• The Danube Delta >The need for greater cooperation
• Progress report on interregional cooperation between the AER member regions
• Oberösterreich to host the 1998 General Assembly

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