The Threat of Chinese Market to the European Companies China is the single most important challenge for EU trade policy. EU-China trade has increased dramatically in the past few years‚ doubling between 2000 and 2005. Europe is China’s largest export market; China is Europe’s largest source of imports. This trade policy paper addresses the economic and competitive challenges that flow from this change and the responses the EU should adopt in the area of trade and investment. The EU’s open
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The European Court of Auditors Introduction The European Court of Auditors is the fifth institution of the European Union (EU). It was established in 1975 in Luxembourg to audit the accounts of EU institutions. This report will cover 3 aspects which are history‚ organization and president. Then it will give some criticism about the declaration of assurance and the size of the court. History The Court of Auditors was created by the 1975 Budgetary Treaty and was formerly established on 1977-10-18
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Social Differences Preserving the unique history and cultural differences of European nations presented itself as a roadblock to early European cooperation. •Long standing rivalries/histories •Nationalism (France 1960s DeGaulle withdrawal from NATO) •Class/Wealth/Ethnic distinctions between Nations Political Differences Political disagreements between Europe’s leaders lead to an impasse in early European cooperation. •Concerns over Sovereignty/ Central Power over Europe/ Central
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Britain’s relationship with the European Union in 2013 Syed Shabab Uddin B225003 Executive summary Britain’s long-standing relationship with the European Union has recently come under a lot of media spotlight. The issue? Whether or not Britain should remain part of one of most advanced and intricate examples of regional economic union. January 23rd saw David Cameron give a speech at the London headquarters of Bloomberg discussing Britain’s relationship and his administration’s
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Impact of European Union policies on UK businesses Case scenario – if the UK is pulling out from the EU club Legislation - A vast majority of UK law is derived from the EU‚ estimated at 80% of law currently in force in the UK. As such‚ withdrawal from the EU will have a huge effect on legislation applied in the UK. - The Treaties (the TEU and the TFEU) would cease to apply‚ including as part of those‚ the fundamental freedoms (free movement of goods‚ services‚ capital and persons/workers)
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Alexander Ivanov INTL 2700 Oreste Foppiani Is a European Union military a real possibility? Before beginning an argument like this‚ certain parameters have to be established. Definitions have to be given and set‚ and the scope of the investigation has to be fixed. The most important parameter‚ one that will echo throughout the paper‚ is the definition of a military. A military is a rather broad term‚ if explored in detail‚ but Wikipedia gives a surprisingly concise definition of it –
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RETHINKING HEGEMONIC STABILITY THEORY: SOME REFLECTIONS FROM THE REGIONAL INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Petropoulos Sotirios1 First Draft 1 Phd Candidate at Harokopion University‚ department of Geography‚ Researcher at the Institute of International Economic Relations The paper examines the ability of the hegemonic stability theory to interpret the creation and development of regional integration schemes in the developing world. More specifically‚ this paper aims at testing
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can notice a trend of constant growth of environmental pollution in Europe and also elsewhere in the world. Every year European Union produces around 2 billion tone of waste materials and the number is getting 10% bigger every year. There is also a constant increase of carbon dioxide emissions that are a result of increasing consumption of energy and cars. Majority of European Union members is fighting with utmost and more and more frequent weather conditions‚ heat waves and floods‚ that have disastrous
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European Union (EU) Response to Economic and Financial Crisis By Dragan Kosanovic 3-18-2013 The European Union (EU) is a family of democratic European countries‚ committed to working together for peace and prosperity. It is not a State intended to replace existing states‚ but it is more than any other international organization. The historical roots of the European Union lie in the Second World War. The idea of European Union was perceived to prevent destruction from ever happening again.
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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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