1. The History of European Integration
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...
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! ...
I would like to start by telling you a story about a young boy aged seven-called Anwar who two years ago started weaving carpets in a village in Pakistan's province of Sindh. He was given some food, little free time, and no medical assistance. He was told repeatedly that he could not stop working un...
British ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe from a historical and cultural perspective. Take a look around. You are standing in the middle of a village somewhere around 100 AD. You are outside, in the open air, somewhere afar you see Hadrian's Wall. You are standing on the road made of p...
