European Parliament 21 November 1997, WRITTEN QUESTION No. 3763/97 by Edward KELLETT-BOWMAN to the Commission. PHARE fund payments to Romania

C 158/188 EN 25. 5. 98 Official Journal of the European Communities of unemployment, and specifically of how the long-term unemployed can be helped to cope with the transition back into the workplace. As the long-term unemployed make up a disproportionately high number of those out of work across the EU, it seems that this is one area in which research could usefully be conducted with EU funding.