With the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP' countries) it signed a series of conventions on aid and trade (Lomé I, II, III and IV, 1975-1989) that led to the Cotonou Agreement of June 2000. ... The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 had a dramatic effect on the political shape of Europe. ...
The history of the British Empire and its position as leader of the Commonwealth in addition to its history of beneficial association with the United States has left many in Britain to believe that it could still maintain its prominent global role and historical status of world leader in political and economic affairs. ... For Example in the 1989, all of the member-States, except Britain, have adopted a Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers. ... Because Europe consists of different countries with distinct histories, unique traditions, and diverse political and economic ...
In the United Kingdom, new communications systems are in many ways more advanced than those in the United States, owing to the UK's history (at least until the recent passage of the telecom reform bill in the US) of less restrictive regulations. ... China, while soaking up new technology like a sponge, is also attempting to control the flow of content over the Internet (having already experienced the world's first "revolution by fax" with the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in which authorities were unable to censor dissidents' fax communications). ...
They limited their movement of jobs by implementing workbooks telling a person's job history, clearly limiting an individual's right to work where they please (Hansen 11/2/12). ... The debate over Muslim girls being allowed to wear these traditional headscarves has been happening in France since 1989 (Hansen, 11/30/12). ... While there have already been some social revolutions to date, in recent history the pattern of violence and the government control of the violence has changed. ...
EU's semi-centennial history began when the six countries signed the Treaty on the European Coal and Steel Community . ... CHRONOLOGY OF EU'S HISTORY(more at http://www.eurunion.org) 1952 Six countries - Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - create the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) by pooling their coal and steel resources in a common market controlled by an independent supranational authority. 1958 The Rome Treaties set up the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), extendi...
A number of aspects of the political environment clearly impinge on business activities. These range from general questions concerning the nature of the political system and its institutions and processes to the more specific questions relating to Government involvement in the working of the econom...
Language Policy and Planning go together. Language Policy is the legal and statutory measures aimed at regulating language use, while the Language Planning is language policy's practical implementation or execution that hinges upon goals, strategies and assessment of outcomes. (Rubin 1983) Hence in ...
Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...
