Parliament clears visa-free travel for Albanians‚ Bosnians [de] [fr] Published: 08 October 2010 [pic][pic][pic] The European Parliament yesterday (7 October) backed visa-free travel to Europe’s Schengen area for Albanian and Bosnian citizens‚ setting the EU assembly on a collision course with France‚ which opposes the proposal following its controversial crackdown on illegal Roma camps. Background Schengen is a village at the border between Luxembourg‚ France and Germany‚ where on 14 June
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Introduction On December 12 1999 the Maltese oil tanker Erica sunk in the Bay of Biscay outside the French coast of Brittany. The vessel had broken in two spilling an amount close to 19800 tones of heavy fuel oil. Additionally 6400 tones remained in the bow section of the sunken vessel and approximately 4800 tones in the stern section. Even though all crew members were rescued‚ this event would inevitably turn out to a huge disaster. Most of all because of the environmental consequences of the
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THE EUROPEAN TOUR OPERATORS CASE Table of contents Contents 1 PESTEL Analysis 4 1.1 Political Factors 4 1.2 Economic factors 4 1.3 Social Factors 5 1.4 Technological factors 5 1.5 Environmental Factors 5 1.6 Legal Factors 6 2 Porter’s Five Forces 6 2.1 Force.1 Threats of New entrants 6 2.2 Force.2 Threat of substitute products or services 6 2.3 Force.3 Bargaining power of buyers (Customers) 7 2.4 Force.4 Bargaining power of suppliers 7 2.5 Force.5 Intensity
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EU Commits EUR 610 Million to Ukraine in MacroFinancial Assistance The EU agrees to provide balance-of-payments support to Ukraine within its policy instrument of macro-financial assistance. The total of EUR 610 million‚ provided under the program‚ is to complement financing supplied by the IMF. The respective agreement between Ukraine‚ and the EU was signed during the 16th Ukraine - EU summit‚ held in Brussels‚ Belgium‚ on February 25‚ 2013. According to the document‚ the Eastern European
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This section explores the means employed by the EU to pursue its goals by searching answers to the following sub –questions: 1. What instruments did the EU employ when dealing with good governancein Vietnam during the period 2000 - 2013? 2. To what extent does the deployment of these instruments reflect the EU’s exercise of normative power? Aiming at realizing its objectives‚ the EUdeployed different means to implement its good governance agenda in Vietnam throughout the period 2000 – 2013. Itcontributed
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Question 1: From an Institution-based view‚ what opportunities and challenges have been brought by the Integration of EU markets in both Western Europe and CEE? The home market from the European Union is one market which everyone has free movement with goods‚ services‚ capital and people. This was not always the way if we look back before the time of the EU we had a Europe which was overfilled with conflicts and wars. Because of the foundation of the EU we got a lot of opportunities in the Western
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As discussed in the previous section on the regional regulation on the right to housing‚ one can notice the development of interpretation on the right to housing which based on either international instruments or regional instruments. In addition to regional courts‚ many of the UN Human rights’ bodies established by human rights instruments have been dealing with the issue of housing related to specific theme of the instruments. In the European setting‚ the right to housing is not directly protected
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For Greece‚ membership in the European Union has meant a sense of security and belonging. It has also brought Greece closer to its ideal of becoming a more western country. However‚ as most human endeavors‚ the process has not been free of problems. Greece has an identity one could describe as distinct from other Western countries. For example‚ they practice Orthodoxy rather than another form of Christianity as most Western European countries do – and‚ further‚ some academics (give a couple of names
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4.3.5 Captives in Sweden The charters of 1976 an 1977 granted three groups‚ SKF Re‚ Electrolux Re and AGA Re‚ the right to operate in insurance activities in Sweden. SKF Re. and Electrolux Re. Captives were mainly involved in the reinsurance of foreign risks of companies of the group. AGA Re on the other hand had the charter to reinsure both Swedish group and foreign company’s risks‚ but this charter expired in 1984. In recent years a number of Swedish groups have set up captives abroad. For example
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An comprehensive article by Jonathan Portes‚ The immigration‚ free movement and the E.U referendum‚ addresses the European Union formation and immigration policy of E.U. Portes centers typically on the immigration policy of E.U. Portes lays down his arguments that “The EU was founded on four basic principles: free movement of labor‚ capital‚ goods and services: these four freedoms were set out within the original accord of Rome‚ which spoke of the abolishment‚ as between Member States‚ of obstacles
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