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...
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...
L'Union européenne et ses voisins orientaux
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Since the creation of the European Union, a community of fifteen states defined in the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the question of enlargement is subject to controversy. The years pass, the European project more fictional than real continues to face the harsh reality of a heterogeneous...
United States - Europe relationship
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Three days ago, President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama met in Washington to address economic issues and the European role in the sanctions against Iran. This meeting has been the main news in the European media, the American media barely spoke about it. This difference of views is...
Globalization: Knowledge-based economy in Europe - published: 06/10/2010
Essay - 31 pages - Economic politics
It is a fact that today's European economy is strongly impacted by globalization. European firms have the opportunity to go to the global market. In order to be successful and to achieve a local and international development, those companies have to adapt and to reinvent their strategies. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 economic, territorial, and cultural impact of the European Union on the Danish identity - published: 09/01/2009
Case study - 5 pages - European union
Created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union now has 25 member states. Over the years and decades, it has developed a wide range of policies with an emphasis on economic measures. The member states have had to adapt themselves to this new system of governance and to the presence 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...
How and why were the european communities created?
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The European Community called the European Union since the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, is a political and economic community of twenty-seven member states and almost 500 million people. In this essay, I will make clear the reasons and the means which permits the EU to become a major world power...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
What prospects for intelligence-sharing within European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)?
Essay - 3 pages - European union
September 11, 2001 has revealed an unprecedented threat that one could define as 'hyperterrorism'. At the time, what impressed the European observers most was the unability of the US to prevent such a violent attack from happening in its territory and European leaders swore to coordinate...
Eastern European Markets: Slovenia
Essay - 17 pages - European union
The Republic of Slovenia lies at the heart of Europe, where the Alps face the Pannonian plains and the Mediterranean meets the mysterious Karst Slovenia is a South Eastern mountainous country which has borders with Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. It entered the World Trade...
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...
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...
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...
Which extension is possible for Europe and and with what consequences?
Essay - 18 pages - Economy general
"A day will come when all the nations of the continent will merge strictly in a superior unity and will constitute the European brotherhood" it will have been necessary more than a century so that this premonitory speech of Victor Hugo pronounced in 1849, pass from utopia to the reality. The...
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...
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...
Paternity leave - history, statutory in Europe, limits, reappraisal
Essay - 6 pages - Human resources
Launched by the Jospin government on the 1st of January 2002, this 11 successive day's break (18 in case of multiple births) has been added to the 3 already entitled days since then by the labor law. It is open to every father namely wage-earners, independent workers, farming workers, civil...
Nations and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Essay - 4 pages - European union
There is a controversial debate on the existence of a European identity. Before the development of the Nation-State in its nationalist form and the two World Wars, there existed a ?vague sense of cultural commonality' . We can distinguish periods of unity in the history of Europe into...
