European Union

European Integration What is the EU’s Financial Framework today? What is its future? Is there a next step in the common market? Could Europe recover from the economic crisis, increase its influence and credibility in the world economic hierarchy? Each issue depends on the desire of every country to involve in EU context. It’s not easy to think about the future today, but EU wants to react. Indeed, the European Budget is considered as a “relic from another age” but EU is decided to change this

USA had a 10% deficit relative to GDP in late 2009. BBC says that the public deficit of Greece is 12.7% of GDP. Greece is now threatening to leave the European Union because of their economic problems. Greece is a very good example of what will happen in a few years for many countries. Greece has to have fewer deficits to stay in the European Union, so Greece must take certain measures. Greece has increased its VAT to 2%, lowered the wages of civil servants to 8% and the froze of pensions for retired

largest city in the country. At 450,295 km², Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union in terms of area, with a total population of about 9.2 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometer but a considerably higher density in the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population lives in urban areas. Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995. The country can be divided into three types of climate; the southernmost

Does the EU need to be democratic? There has been in recent years a growing concern, reflected in the abundant publication by various academics and scholars, relating to the legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and its alleged ‘democratic deficit’. Many of these publications seem to have taken the democratic deficit as given and concentrated on explaining its causes and characteristics, leading to solutions which could be put in place to resolve it. Few have explicitly identified and questioned

The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member stats. It was established by the treaty of maastricht in 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community. NATO: North atlantic treaty organisation is an alliance of 26 countries from north America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goas of the North atlantic treaty signed on 4 april 1949. In accordance with the treaty, the fundamental rôle of NATO is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member

crisis. In fact, today, some tensions are re-emerging particularly in the public sector. Unions are mobilizing and are coming together across national boundaries across to improve working conditions. Social and economics conflicts concern all countries, both rich or poor and different sectors and in recent years, the trend has been towards an knock-on effects of this conflicts. We ain’t seen nothing yet! European transport was affected by a lot of disturbances last year. In Great Britain, the strikes

BHS 0009 – European Business and its Environment Assignment 2010/2011 : « European business increasingly has to accept policy at national, European and international levels ». Consider the rational for the existence of policy at these three levels and how such policy affects the decisions made by European business. Use examples to illustrate your answer. By Benjamin GASTINEAU U1071987 To KJ ROWLES Words: 1962 The 2009 summit in Copenhagen, on environmental issue had shown the difficulties

Amphi 1: European business and competition Introduction MS: member states ECB: European central bank UE: - Supranational organization corresponding to a federation of 27 MS - The largest confederation existing in the world and developing many links in terms of legal and commercial activities. - Based on the principal of a common market - The main principal is to organize a free relationship between the different MS. The specificities of the common market are developed through a

Geopolitical Arguments: the example of TURKEY Firstable, a country which desire is to form part of the European Union must be a liberal democracy. The first condition is obviously to respect entirely the Human Rights. Some candidates countries don’t implement that. In Turkey for example mass media are always partially controlled by the government itself controlled by the army. Moreover the disparities between men and women are very strong. In spite of a theoretical balance rights between

government also changed of bank to reduce interest. With all this decisions, Ireland became a confident country and a good place to do business with low taxes. The second reason is the Social Partnership. In effect, the tree partners (government, trade union and employers) made an arrangement about the salary and taxes. The aim of this arrangement was to reduce strike. In exchange for small pay increases, the taxes were cut and the number of strike’s day decreased. With these elements, Ireland became more