poverty & unemployment going down‚ Europe has transformed itself into a continent brought about through social and economic integration. This radical change stemmed from the vision of post-World War II Europeans‚ longing for peace in order to spur development in their countries . Hence‚ the European Union ‚ more commonly known as the EU was created . The EU as it stands is a social institution that until today‚ stands firm on it’s guiding principle "economic integration resulting to
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Impact of International Trade and European Union on the British Companies Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Findings 2 2.1. Benefits of International Trade 2 2.1.1. Adoption of technologies 2 2.1.2. Access to raw materials 2 2.1.3. Lesser dependency on one market 2 2.2. Relation of British Companies to the World Economy 2 2.3. The impact of European Union policies on British manufacturing organizations 2 2.4. Policies Impacting Decisions for Export within the EU
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The European Union foreign relations challenges in the year 2012 2012 context: In the year 2012‚ the EU had 27 members and had 61 years of history behind (if we consider its beginnings to be rooted in the European Coal and Steel Community or 19 years since the Maastricht treaty which formally created the European Union. Aside from the 27 official members‚ Croatia is expected to become a member this year‚ on the 1st of July‚ There are five candidate countries: Iceland‚ Macedonia‚ Montenegro‚ Serbia and Turkey
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Ireland Housing Executive declined her receipt for the installation. Consequently‚ Freda’s circumstances expose conflict in the legal relationship between the U.K. and the E.U. on the implementation of an E.U. directive. The European Communities Act of 1972 served to make all European Community Treaties directly applicable in the British legal system.1 This is best captured in Lord Denning’s description of the Act: ‘any rights or obligations created by the Treaty… legal effect in England without more
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in the international system”. The brief background information on the EU will help with knowing exactly how it helped in Libyan crisis and in what ways. The European Union is made of a group of countries in Europe which joined forces in order to mutually benefit. The United Kingdom joined the group in 1973. The inspiration for the European Union grew out of the desolation that was brought to Europe through the two wars as well as the great economic depression. It is an economic and political object
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4. VITAMIN CARTEL CASE 4.1 EU INVESTIGATION FINDINGS According to the World Trade Organization (WTO) (2001)‚ in 1989 two European vitamins manufacturers Roche and BASF started the cartels. They decided to increase the prices of vitamins A and E gradually to a geographic division to the world’s markets. Roche and BASF skillfully garnered over seventy percent of sales in these markets and later successfully co-opted their principal rivals‚ Rhone-Poulenc and Eisai. Through 1991‚ these four companies
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS IN THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Giedrė LAPINSKIENĖ Vilnius Gediminas Technical University‚ LT-10223 Vilnius‚ Sauletekio‚ 11‚ E-mail: gielap@gmail.com Abstract. Taking into account the current financial crisis‚ the European Commission has launched the new strategy “Europe 2020‚” released as the follow up to the Lisbon strategy. Both strategies encourage the European Union countries to be competitive and to maintain the sustainable development
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TURKEY’S POSITION AT EUROPEAN UNION AND TURKISH IMPRESSION IN GERMANY Introduction Countries tried to show their power and sovereignty with hard power. But now we are living in a century that soft power can be more powerful than hard power. Cultural diplomacy is one of the strongest soft power items of last century. With right strategy of cultural diplomacy‚ a new image of a country can be created at other countries. This can affect so many statistics of a country in a positive way‚ such as
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8. Is European Union undermining the sovereignty of its individual member states? In order to give an answer to the question above‚ it is worth mentioning that the two key points that this essay will analyse [the EU and the notion of sovereignty] are both really hard to define from just one point of view‚ therefore different theories will be taken into account to give a complete and fulfilling outlook of the effect that the creation of the European Union had given to the concept of modern sovereignty
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instance when a company that is situated outside the European Union makes agreements with companies that are situated in the EU. This is found in the cases United Brands Co. v. Commission1 and Europemballage Corp and Continental Can Co. Inc. V. Commission2 United brands is an American company which exports the ‘Chiquita’ bananas globally‚ including the EU. The Court has ruled that the company was abusing their dominant position. Once selected European distributors/banana plantation operators have
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