Austrian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2002 Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs Produced by: Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs Ballhausplatz 2, 1014 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (0043) (01) 531 15-0 Fax: (0043) (01) 535 45 30 E-mail:
[email protected] The Austrian Foreign Policy Yearbook is a shortened version of the official report addressed to Parliament by the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and has been produced in cooperation with Dr. James Wilkie. The original German version is available at http://www.bmaa.gv.at/service/ or in printed form at the Press and Information Service, Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. 2 Contents Foreword by the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs 5 A. Austria in the European Union 10 I. The Enlargement of the European Union 10 II. EU Policies 13 Austria’s Role in the European Institutions 13 Reform of the European Union 15 Economic and Monetary Union 17 Employment 18 The Internal Market 19 Transport 19 Environment 20 Energy 21 Education 21 Research and Development 22 Building an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 22 III. Austria’s and the European Union’s External Relations 24 The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) 24 The Central and Eastern European States 28 South-Eastern Europe / Western Balkans 34 The Russian Federation 39 Asia and the Pacific 41 The Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean 49 Africa South of the Sahara 57 North America 63 Latin America and the Caribbean 68 B. Austria in Other European Institutions 74 I. The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) and the 74 Partnership for Peace (PfP) II.