This country spans over 301,230 square miles of land and is inhabited by over 57 million people. ... This beautiful country is characterized predominately by two mountain ranges: the Alps and the Apennines. ... Italy is a highly educated country with a 98% literacy rate. ... Originally, Italy was an agriculturally based economy but it developed into the world's fifth largest industrial economy. ... Italy's closest trade ties are with the other countries of the European Union, with whom it conducts about 55% of its total trade. ...

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International business keeps the global economy going, and in order for countries to trade with each other, they must learn and understand the culture and economy of the each other's country. The idea of learning and understanding another country well enough to practice profitable business encompasses everything from the country's being able to perform business practices in its geographical settings to knowing whether or not the country has a balance of payment surplus or deficit. ... We must also know how to market our product in the Country of Belgium most effectively. ... The m...

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The milk business has always been a highly developed industry within the agriculture in The Netherlands. ... The European Union tries to keep competitors from other non-EU countries out of the EU. ... Other (non EU) export countries are Egypt and Russia. ... Another way to expand the livestock of a country is to clone. ... This makes the country extremely suitable for breeding livestock. ...

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The pattern of ruling by the leaders of Europe always suggested the fact that every step taken by the countries belonging to the European Union was based on various treaties which was approved willingly and constitutionally by the EU member countries. From a broader perspective, a treaty can be defined as an obligatory contract between EU member countries. ... It conserved modified and adapted the fragments of model culture; and during the phase of chaos and disturbance, when there was a continuous process of migrations of the various countries under European Union, it shaped up a predisposit...

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The free trade established by MERCOSUR also involves countries within South America. ... The main point of MERCOSUR is to set up free trade among South American countries and to encourage new countries to join (americasnet.com). ... Today, GATT encompasses over one hundred countries and 90% of the world's trade goods (Sabir 1). ... GATT as a whole is based on principles that ensure all participating countries receive benefits. ... The EFTA is currently in the midst of procuring free trade agreements with countries in Central and Eastern Europe and even with other countries around the worl...

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In addition, the Dutch curriculum consists of extremely well developed academic research institutes and laboratories. ... Fishing is traditionally a very popular activity throughout the country. ... There are no licensing laws in the country, so drinks can be purchased all day. ... Dialects were still spoken throughout the country. ... It is the world's 6th largest exporting country. ...

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EU's semi-centennial history began when the six countries signed the Treaty on the European Coal and Steel Community . ... Growing from 6 member states the EU underwent four waves of accession, integrated the majority of Western European countries, and is preparing for further expansion in the East. ... In 1995 the provisions for the "Preparation of the Associated Countries of Central and Eastern Europe for Integration into the Internal Market of the Union- were laid down in a separate document. ... Shortly after that a concept of "candidate states- for these countries emerged. ... The ...

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Task 2 2.1 Different economic systems and resource allocation A country's economic system is its way of organising economic activities, including the ways in which people come to specialise in particular task. ...

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Adopting the single currency is good especially if a country is still on the verge of development because adopting the single currency helps in developing the economic growth of a country. ... All countries that satisfied the public deficit and interest rate criterion passed the qualifications. For countries to qualify for adopting the euro, they have to have sustained an inflation rate high enough to put up to the standards of other countries. ... A monetary would most likely be beneficial to all members states especially those who are not as developed as the others. ... There would be a c...

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And we cannot disagree with the fact that the struggle for social justice has become the main channel for the implementation of moral ideals, the hallmark of a developed moral consciousness. It was also a reflection of the significant changes in a number of capitalist countries, what has noticed F.A. ... After all, the practice of many countries has shown that the free market and distributive justice at the present stage of development of society and the state are quite well together, though, influence each other. ...

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The treaty states: The Community shall develop and pursue its actions leading to the strengthening of its economic and social cohesion. ... Europe has experienced many problems with this goal, specifically with social dumping'(the practice of firms especially from developed Western nations employing labor in countries and regions that have less social standards and therefore lower costs of labor). ... As a result, although progress is made, it is made very slowly and sometimes at the grating and discontent of individual countries. ... These states are known as African-Caribbean-Pacific ...

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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 perfe...

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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...

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For detailed information on Structural Funds allocation by country and Objective see Appendix 2. ... By all means, progress has been experienced in all 4 countries though Ireland's growth exceeds all its fellow countries b far. ... In other words, a third or more of the economic convergence of these countries would not have happened without the Structural Funds. ... Just to have a little view of what is in fact developed from the funds given projects let me quote some examples of success: Aveiro: a digital city Aveiro, a port with a population of 70 000, is steering a course bet...

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By the end of 1991, MEI had its sales companies in twelve European countries and eight sales agents in other five countries. ... PEST Analysis of Europe Political In political aspect, since European countries were integrated together, each member country has common policies and more stable regime. The European Council consists of all number from one person in each country members, which indirectly creates the political harmonization and stability among European country members. Economy Member countries of EU are relatively stable in terms of economic indicators such as GDP growth rate...

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In the European Union, Sweden is the third largest country. ... In this country homosexual relationships have been legal since 1944 (Knoespel, 2014, p. 105). ... In many European countries, programs are put into place like this to better the lives of everyone in their country. ... They were also taken over by these countries at one time or another. ... This formed the country into 25 provinces; this came from areas having differing opinions just like many of the bickering countries in Europe. ...

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In modern defence politics, the WEU and NATO hold a mutual defence commitment, and the Treaty of Union in Maastricht (1992) cautiously doctrined the need for the member states of the new European Union to develop its own defence policy as member states were keen to maintain the WEU-NATO alliance. ... "The North Atlantic Treaty has continued to guarantee the security of its member countries. ... The WEU-NATO alliance without doubt provides a platform of stability for the member states of Europe, amidst the growing threat from lesser-developed regions such as the Middle East and Central Africa....

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Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... 13 years since the downfall of communism, Romania is faced with yet another question, that of whether or not the country has undergone a socializa-tion process comparable to the other former Eastern bloc states. Does the Roma-nian population show any interest whatsoever in taking an active part in the fu-ture political, social and economic development of the country? ...

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It envisions political life in ways that will sharpen, deepen and extend the grounds for developing a better understanding about the significance and meaning of language policy and planning informed by geopolitical events and actions at the national and international levels. ... Under the influence of this orientation, acquisition planning activities would involve teaching and developing materials in the national language only. ... Corpus planners would then develop written forms of as many languages as possible. ... In corpus planning, efforts would be made to develop and standardise minor...

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A close analysis of American immigrants shows that most of them came to the United States to evade political atrocities in their countries. The political situation in various native countries of the immigrants was not conducive. ...

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