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...

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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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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 ...

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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...

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