248 pages packed with useful information on residency and entry regulations for those planning to start work or a business or even retire. Guide you through the pitfalls of property purchase and rental with helpful hints on the language, shopping, banking, education. How to approach various authorities with a bias on transport, communications, taxes, local government and social life.Employment: how to find a job, a valuation of skills and qualifications, working hours and holidays, salaries, trade unions, terms of employment, contracts, women in work, seasonal and temporary work, international organisations.Starting a business: creating a new business, buying an existing business and the pitfalls, finance, Chamber of Commerce, EC information's centres, running a business, farming and ideas for new businesses.Useful addresses and personal accounts of expatriates.