Illegal logging is the harvest‚ transportation‚ purchase or sale of timber in violation of laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal‚ including using corrupt means to gain access to forests; extraction without permission or from a protected area; the cutting of protected species; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits (see Box 1). Illegalities may also occur during transport‚ such as illegal processing and export; fraudulent declaration to customs; and the avoidance of
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into their systems‚ stealing valuable intellectual property‚ sensitive information and company secrets. Even military networks can be targeted. These scenarios are not from a Bollywood flick‚ but tangible threats that loom large. In May 2007‚ Estonia — a small but technologically sophisticated Baltic country — fell victim to a cyber attack. The unidentified terrorists bombarded the country’s network with data traffic‚ clogging it and rendering major services unusable. People were not able to access
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higher pensions‚ and so on. In Latvia‚ especially after all the budget cuts‚ indicators in these areas are very poor‚ comparing to other EU countries. So there is no wonder that people often choose to go to countries like Germany‚ UK‚ Ireland or even Estonia. However‚ there are also people‚ who leave Latvia for just a period of time. These are mostly young people‚ who simply want to improve their language skills or have praxis. And after this period of time‚ like 3 or 4 years‚ they return to Latvia
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The Origins of the Estonian Language The Origins of the Estonian Language I just celebrated my fifth year in Estonia and my fifth fruitless year trying to figure out how to correctly speak Estonian. I mean really‚ it wouldn’t be so bad if Estonians weren’t so smug about it. Oh‚ they will congratulate you on your good Estonian even if you can only speak a few words‚ but deep inside they really don’t want you to learn it! They are so happy with their secret code and you can see it every time someone
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the Baltic States at 20.6% grocery share‚ behind VP Market who lead the market with 22.6% share (1). As a subsidiary of ICA Baltic AB (13.9% of sales)‚ Rimi Baltic focussed its growth in Lithuania and Latvia‚ allowing period of underperforming in Estonia. After losing out to Kesko’s K-citymarket and Saastumarket‚ a merger between these two Estonian market leaders and Rimi Baltic took place in 2005. 238 stores now operate in all 3 Baltic States under 3 formats of the Rimi banner – Rimi Hypermarket
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selection of the cases Case study partners 7 7 7 7 8 8 9 CASE STUDIES Case study key insights Classification of countries Nature of case study Case study quick-find 10 10 12 12 13 NORTHERN Europe Case 1: SEA‚ Denmark Case 2: ETM‚ Estonia Case 3: Demola‚ Finland Case 4: REAP‚ Ireland Case 5: Mobility at UL‚ Latvia Case 6: CSE‚ Sweden Case 7: SMIL‚ Sweden Case 8: SPEED‚ UK Case 9: IDI/Digital City‚ UK Case 10: Acua Limited‚ UK 18 19 25 30 35 41 46 52 57 63 70 76 80 84 90 96 EASTERN
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The European Union is a result of an effort to construct a more united Europe. After World War II‚ Europeans were looking for a way to stop another war as costly as this one that had been. This would have to be done in both the economic aspects and also politically. This would be good for Europe that everyone would get an advantage from this unification and get more dominant as a whole. Now let’s look up advantages and disadvantages of EU. One of the advantages of the EU is that both the democratic
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P5 Introduction I am going to talk about characteristic of the local business environment in the Leicester. My chosen business is eastern European restaurant. Product Market This restaurant will be aimed at a niche market for European people who live in Leicester. They are a lot of people from Eastern Europe like Poland‚ Latvian‚ Lithuanian and it will help to me make a profit. I look for European public‚ because I see there are lots of Asian restaurants in Leicester and not many European
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Mending a Bad Marriage is the title of chapter nine of the book The Shift And The Shocks written by the English economic journalist Martin Wolf. In this chapter Wolf makes an interesting speculation on the future of the European Union. Wolf compares the European condition to a bad marriage‚ and predicts the different results that will have the possible legacy of the honeymoon‚ the endurance of the bad marriage‚ and the divorce. Finally‚ the author suggests some interesting policies that the EU should
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ELENA MANDIJA MODEL EUROPEAN UNION - AlBANIA 2013 Motivation Letter ELENA MANDIJA DEAR SIR OR MADAM ‚ WITH THIS LETTER ‚ I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY INTEREST IN BEING A PART OF THE MEU ALBANIA 2013 . KNOWING THAT I CAN BE PART OF THE “MODEL EUROPEAN UNION “ ALBANIA 2013 MADE ME SO HAPPY AND CERTAINLY I STARTED MY APPLICATION AS SOON AS I REALISED IT WAS STILL OPENED. THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS I WANT TO BE PART OF THE MEU ALBANIA 2013 ‚ FIRST OF ALL ‚ GIVING
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