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Regional Sociology Term Paper Regionalization in Europe -15 Situation, trends and prospects in the Member States of European Union (EU-15) Summary Introduction * Region and Regionalization I. Regionalization Typology A. Administrative Regionalization B. Local Authorities Regionalization C. Regional Decentralization D. Politic Regionalization E. Regionalization by Federated Authorities II. Evaluation and prospects of regionalization

The Euro crisis The European Union is currently in a deep crisis because of the Euro. It is the single currency of 17 European Union’s member states which together make up the so called Euro area. Indeed, in early 2010, the euro crisis began with the Greek debt crisis where the cost for financing government debt was sharply rising. This crisis caused a crisis of confidence as the fear of a sovereign debt crisis in Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain was increasing. In this analysis of the Euro

Politique Européenne - Sonia da Silva, Lausanne, December 2009 Is European Soft Power a contradiction in terms of neo-realism? In this paper I will explore the significance of Soft Power in International Relations. I will then focus on Soft Power as the source of emerging security and defence policy of the EU by questioning whether this kind of Soft Power is a contradiction in terms of Neo-Realism theory. Since the end of the Cold War, the EU decided to abandon the anarchic Hobbesian world

ARTHUR Student ID : 08120868 DIETRICH Course : European Business L3 EUROPEAN BUSINESS ASSIGNMENT N°2 THE EURO [pic] TUTOR : Lynda Harrison 2005 words University of Lincoln The introduction of the Euro has had success in promoting trade and price stability; it has had only limited success in promoting structural reform across the Eurozone. Discuss about it The single currency has been mentioned for the first time during the Maastricht treaty

either a success or a failure just as, in the case of the Marshall Plan, it would have been premature to make a similar affirmation a year after its launch. 1 2 3 4 Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe, Köln, 10 June 1999, Art. III. South-East European Information Network, Volume 2 Issue 12, June 22 2000, p. 4 (http:/ /www.seein.org). Mabel Wisse Smit: The jury is still out on the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe. Deutschland, Nr. 4/99, August/September RO, p. 22. 4/2000 South-East

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large number of international organizations. According to the European Union, 129 million (or 26% of the Union's total population), in 27 member states speak French, of which 65 million are native speakers and 69 million claim to speak French either as a second language or as a foreign language, making it the third-most spoken second language in the European Union, after English and German. Twenty-percent of non-Francophone Europeans know how to speak French, totaling roughly 145.6 million people

BASCHET European banking system In the last six months, the euro zone has faced its biggest economic crisis. One sparked by the Greek debt crisis which has migrated to the rest of the monetary union. But well before the sovereign debt crisis, Europe was facing a full-blown banking crisis that did not seem any closer to being resolved than when it began in late 2008. With investors and markets focused on European governments' debt problems, the banking issues

the Artic, Atlantic, Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean Sea. It is the 3rd largest continent in area (24,709,000 square kilometres) and 4th in population (524 million people). It is widely accepted that it was named after Amerigo Vespucci, the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a new world. ‘North America” may be interpreted differently throughout the world. In English, it often refers to the United States and Canada exclusively, including Mexico only when referring

Programme organisers European Commission DG Education and Culture EAC – D4, Civil Society Tel.: Fax.: E-mail: 0032/(0)2 – 296 40 94 0032/(0)2 – 299 93 02 andy.kontoudakis@ec.europa.eu ConferenCe organisers MEDIA CONSULTA Wassergasse 3, 10179 Berlin, Germany sven Wolgram Tel: Fax: E-mail: 0049/(0)30 – 65 000 184 0049/(0)30 – 65 000 190 citizenship@media-consulta.com LAUNCH EVENT FOR THE “EUROPE FOR CITIZENS” PROGRAMME TogeTher for europe (2007–2013) ÉVÉNEMENT DE LANCEMENT DU PROGRAMME