The Directory of Trade and Professional Associations in the European Union (6th edition)

I have separately reviewed CBD Research's Directory of European Professional & Learned Societies (RR 2005/227), where I made the first main point that overlap between that and this directory is virtually nil, and that the two titles complement each other quite neatly. I shall have other points of comparison later in this review. The bodies listed here seem very much part of our brave new Europe: “Socio‐professional organizations play an important role in the European Union, since they defend the interests of the sectors that they represent by trying to influence the guidelines or decisions of the Union's institutions....