Europe was the center of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century. All Europeans thought that their nation would continue to be the leader of the world. Europe's technological advances, economic resources, military might and political influence gave the country a sense of superiority th...
The @LIS ISN: 1. reviews and maps existing observatories on the Information Society in the European Union and in Latin America; 2. establishes a Virtual Community of Practice focusing on the implementation of Information Society and supporting the selected demonstration projects; 3. makes available an e-Learning environment to the demonstration projects and to other stakeholders for collaborative learning; 4. organises four yearly bi-regional Information Society Fora of high-level decision-makers ( first Forum in Lima on July 20-21, 2003); 5. sets up a network of i-twinnings, including ...
1. Background To analyse the Chinese culture that it is a pretty broad topic to research, including literature, music and social values, and so on. However, In this paper, I am not going to discuss the whole Chinese culture in depth, illustrating that the Chinese culture is popular with the general ...
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...
Executive Summary This paper is about the European Economic and Monetary Union. Basically, this paper explains what the European Economic and Monetary Union is about. This paper answered the questions about the qualifications set by the European Commission to states who want to join the economic and monetary union. It also answered what gains could the member states get from joining the economic and monetary union, and also the costs for joining. This paper also tackled about the optimum currency area, if Europe is one. ...
The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...
