The Greek Parliament finally consented to Prime Minister George Papandreou's package of austerity measures - the only factor standing in the way of Greece receiving the $17 billion from the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund that it needed to survive the s...
"The expansion of trade was important steps on the road to European economic cooperation, which was to end in full economic integration of the countries of Europe. This road led to the foundation in 1957 of the European Economic Community (EEC). ...
For instance, when China's development of the longest rail link in the world dubbed the "21st-Century Silk Road" became operational, it enabled China to improve the infrastructure of old trading routes between east Asia and Europe as the EU is China's largest trading partner. ...
In the first part of his essay, de Crevecoeur describes American identity: "Here he beholds fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields, and immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards, meadows, and bridges, where an hundred years ago all was wild, woody and uncultivated! ...
There are many arguments that have advocated for bilingualism to be encouraged in the United States. There is one faction that claims it makes foreigners feel accommodated and accommodated and also to facilitate the learning of thousands on non-English speaking students who go for studies. On the ot...
INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO THE PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Tendik Tynystanov TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . 2 The European Union........................................................" 3 About the PCA............................................................." 8 EU Relations with Kyrgyzstan ..........................................." 10 The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement....................." 11 PCA Institutio...
In January 1994, the United States, Mexico, and Canada implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The goal of NAFTA is to create better trading conditions through tariff reduction, removal of investment barriers, and improvement of intellectual property protection. NAFTA continues to gradually reduce tariffs on set dates and aims to eliminate all tariffs by the year 2004. Before NAFTA was established, investing in Mexico was a difficult process. Investors needed the Mexican Government's approval and were also required to meet specific investment guidelines. ...
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...
How successful have the post-communist states been in establishing a stable democracy? Regime Change This essay will study the success rate of the establishment of a stable democracy in post-communist states. It will give a short introduction on democracy, what classifies as democracy, and the different paths taken to democracy, also stating the different problems that post-communist countries had to face when hey began the process of democratisation. In addition to this it will state the collapse of communism and why thee countries have chosen a democratic' government rather than an ...
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...
