*[http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=7047&TagID=2 European Union Stands Up to American Corporations], ''Pravda'', May 10, 2003.
*[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=15&u=/nm/20031022/wl_nm/eu_drugs_dc EU Expansion Could Fan Drugs Problem, Report Says], Reuters, October 22, 2003: "The European Union's drug monitoring agency said in a report that the accession of the 10 mainly east European and former-Communist countries raised the prospect of increased drug trafficking and spread of infectious diseases."
*[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=6&u=/afp/20031029/bs_afp/eu_economy_eurozone_031029110718 29 October 2003]: "Four countries set to breach EU deficit limit", AFP: "France, Germany and Portugal are set next year to breach a euro-zone deficit limit, the European Commission warned in its autumn economic report. ... Italy could join the trio in the budgetary doghouse in 2005 unless it changes course, the European Union's executive arm warned in the six-monthly report."