ISSN 1022-6559 Based on information from CORDIS News available on the Web at http://www.cordls.lu/news Separate eEurope action plan launched for candidate countries The eEurope Plus action plan, which mirrors the eEurope 2002 action plan but is aimed specifically at the EU candidate countries, was launched in Gothenburg on 16 June. ment of co-operation in the relationship beThe eEurope+ action plan aims to assist in accelerating reform and modernisation of the tween the European Union and its candidate economies in the candidate countries through countries'. the use of Information Society technologies Information Society and Enterprise Commis(IST) and tools. It is similar to the action plan sioner Erkki Liikanen added that'the objective Erkki Liikanen covering the EU Member States, but with adagreed in Lisbon, for Europe to become the © European Communities, 2001 ditions and changes of objectives, actions and most competitive and dynamic knowledge-timetables to reflect the economic and social based economy in the world is now becoming IN THIS ISSUE situation in the candidate countries. a political priority for the whole continent. New Commission task force on skills eEurope+ is an important step forward for both and mobility launched 'This is a good example of how the candidate the candidate countries and the EU,' he said.