The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration.
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
The rise and limits of populist parties and movements in Europe - published: 09/03/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Political life and election
Any success of a populist party is often considered as a threat, a rise endangering Democracy. Even if there is a lot of passion over this issue, it is true that there has been a rise of populist parties in Europe, from the 1980s to late 1990s, a rise which has stabilized or reversed...
An analysis of internationalization strategies of French companies in Eastern Europe: the case of Ineo Polska
Case study - 33 pages - Business strategy
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 rapid changes have occurred in Central and Eastern European countries. Their economic development has literally boomed and they rapidly fulfil the requirements of the Copenhagen Criteria to be a member of the European Union. In 2004, most of them...
Byzantium : The Balkans, Europe
Essay - 18 pages - Medieval history
As a thousand-year empire (324-1453), the universal state that was disparagingly called Byzantium by new-age historians, was the Christian and medieval continuation of the Roman Empire whose inhabitants called themselves Romaioi Romans. Christianity as the state religion and Constantinople as the...
Europe's leading telecom companies : overstretched and under threat
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
According to Campbell in 2002, the classic prescriptive process can be defined as a “strategy that is planned in advance and which follows a rational process through each stage from analysis to implementation.” Widely recognised as the most principal theories for strategy development,...
English Teenagers Worst Behave in Europe
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
During this seminar, we were asked to show a stereotype commonly admitted about the United Kingdom. When we mention the English educational system, we first think that it is very strict; because we have in mind images of young boys and girls with uniforms, and English people in general are told...
American HRM model vs. European HRM model: Is the American model exportable to Europe?
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
The success of the American firms and the rapid economic growth of the country seem to give significant emphasis on the US way of managing a business. Seen as part of management, the US strategic human resource management models are often considered to be the best practice and the key to success....
International accounting Corporate reporting regulation: Understanding differences ? USA/ Europe
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Throughout the globe, U.S.A. has been famous for their notion of freedom, their way of life, and their entrepreneurship, stemming back to its very origins. This is a legacy from the very first pioneer, which still affects them nowadays either in their private or business life. It's a country...
Växjö the greenest city in Europe
Case study - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
In this paper we will talk about Växjö in terms of global warming and the effects of environmental responsibilities and the "green image" of companies. On the lower levels it is even better if there is cooperation between companies and municipalities, and when a municipality is involved in...
Importing mangos from Philippines to Europe (France)
Market study - 11 pages - Business strategy
Big scale production and world wide distribution of fruits are a relatively recent phenomenon that we actually attribute to the development of transportation systems, of intensive production techniques and of the conservation ways. While the tempered fruits market is growing very low and actually...
Media policy in Europe
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Multiplicity, as well as, pluralism is the background main beliefs that cause most of the wiles in the European communication also media strategy. Accordingly, the affirmative significance related to these concepts may be subjugated in the wiles for diversified, as well as, continuous...
Human resources in Europe
Essay - 10 pages - Human resources
For the last three decades, the liberalization of the exchanges and the development of the Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) led the globalization of the economy. The flows of the FDI with the amount of 648 billion dollars in 2004 are sixteen times today than at its being in 1950 . The growth of...
The Nationalities of Europe (1848-1914)
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
Garibaldi was born on July 4, 1807 in Nice, in a French liberal family. He saw Rome when he was 13 years old for the first time. And at that time Italy was occupied on all sides by foreign dynasties. He began his intellectual training in 1833 with a trip to Marseille. He encountered a colony of...
Human Resources Management in Europe
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
The term 'human resource development' (HRD) refers to educational activities, training and development related to work life. It is often used in a broad sense to encompass all learning activities related to work, it further identifies the development and learning activities of people who...
How to launch and make successful a potential top selling drug against obesity in major markets (USA, Europe and Japan). Dealing with regulations and marketing of these different market
Essay - 10 pages - International marketing
In the first part of this document, we will present a theoretical aspect into the market for medicines that represents around 1.2 billion people worldwide. We will describe the process of entering each market. Each drug is marketed in a very specific way, involves governmental approval after a...
The abolition of death penalty in France and Turkey: History, similarities and differences of two lateness abolitions in Europe.
Essay - 17 pages - Political science
Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a personal by judicial process for retribution and incapacitation. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences . Death penalty exists since the Antiquity. Effectively if we follow...
Great Britain and Europe
Essay - 3 pages - European union
In 1950, the French Foreign Secretary Robert Schuman set out his idea of a Coal and Steel Community between France and Germany, which would be an organization open to some other European countries if they would accept the idea of a supra-national power. Great Britain refused to be part of it. The...
Organic cosmetics market in Europe
Market study - 114 pages - Brand management
The European market for natural cosmetics is a dynamic market. The organic cosmetics segment is no more a niche market in Europe and has gained marketshare in the classical cosmetics segments. It has grown at double digit speed (30-40% for France, the fastest growing market). As a...
Tourism in Europe: the emergence of ICT and e-business
Case study - 16 pages - Digital & e-marketing
This project is a global analysis of the European tourism industry. It tempts to establish a comprehensive panorama of the Tourism in Europe, throughout the actors, the major destinations, and the key figures. This report then underlines the significant changes the European tourism...
The role of the Catholic Church as a key opponent since the 1970s against the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
One can observe that, among the different opponent actors who played a role in the opposition, the Catholic Church took a greater place in Eastern and Central Europe until the collapse of the communist regimes in the countries, by encouraging and aiding political opposition to...
The French energy transition: a case of Europeanization?
Case study - 15 pages - Political science
Since the beginning of the European integration in the 1950s, the energy had always a peculiar place in the European project. The first energy source in Europe after the Second World War, coal, was the key to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951. The...
The external dimension of European Union immigration and asylum policies - redefining security in the European region
Essay - 7 pages - European union
In February 2003, Tony Blair proposed at the Thessaloniki Summit to create 'transit processing centres' outside the European Union (EU) frontiers in which asylum seekers would be withheld during the time their procedure was completed. Though the proposition wasn't well received at...
European Union representation in international forums
Essay - 5 pages - European union
American diplomat and political scientist, Henry Kissinger, once asked, "Who do I call when I want to speak to Europe?" In other words, he was wondering what exactly Europe has in place for its representation on the international stage. This is a valid query in light of the fact...
The European debt crisis, can the world ignore it and keep it European?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The European debt crisis brings as a result of how Europe had made an attempt to solve the financial crisis faced by most countries and as a result an immediate end in their prosperity and put them in great debts. In an attempt by the European to defend itself against collapse has created...
Civil-military relations in Kosovo - the stakes of the European involvement
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 2003, after the outbreak of European divisions over the question of Iraq, the European Council adopted the European Strategy developed by Javier Solana in a document, 'A secure Europe in a Better World', stating that 'Europe should be ready to share in the...
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) - European Union as a hard power?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
With the treaty of Maastricht's coming into force in 1993, the European Community became the European Union and the Common Foreign and Security Policy became one of the three pillars of this new Union. This step of the European construction was very important because it signified the will of...
National Parliaments and the European Union - publié le 18/03/2010
Essay - 5 pages - European union
The adoption of the Lisbon Treaty on December 1, 2009 puts into perspective new dimensions of the role of national parliaments into the decisional core of the European Union. Indeed, this Treaty offers to the national parliaments more power to intervene into European affairs but it also...
From the Great Powers to the European Union: assess and discuss the role and impact of the European influence in the Balkans
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On the 21st of July 1774, the town of Kuchuk Kainarji in Bulgaria was the scene to the signing of the treaty that would end the Russo-Turkish War. From then on, the history of the Balkan peninsula would coincide with the receding of the Ottoman empire and the expansion of European influence....
European labor markets: Characteristics and operation (including the role of trade unions and long term unemployment); impact of European integration and migration
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
The labor market is truly a special market because labor is not like any goods. Labor market involves particular regulations and arrangements because what is sold is people's time and skills. Besides the economic goal of performance there is also a social requirement to fulfill. This is why labor...
How and to what extent the new economic geography explains industry specialization patterns in Europe?
Case study - 8 pages - Geography
The discipline of economic geography is concerned with the impact of the geophysical, social, and political environments on political activities (Hodder & Lee, 1974). It addresses the influence of location, distribution, and spatial organization of economic activities on productivity. According...
