the key indicators and trade balance of each country of the region with the EU. 2. WESTERN BALKANS IN GENERAL Western Balkans is a region in Europe which includes Albania and states of Former Yugoslavia without Slovenia. Those countries are Croatia‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ Montenegro‚ Serbia‚ Kosovo (as defined as UNMIK 1244)‚ Republic of Macedonia and Albania. The surface of this region is approximately 265.000 square kilometers and total population within is 24 million inhabitants. Historical
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Communism and Even Laughed is an interesting and educational book about the struggles and dysfunction of communism in Croatia. I found this book incredibly personal because it showed the point of view of a woman who is experiencing life growing up in a country where communism had ended‚ but continued in the minds of it’s people. Not only does she speak of the lack of common luxuries that Croatia has‚ but she relates them to western culture in a time when America was progressing faster than we ever have.
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War II‚ Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and was partitioned. A fierce resistance movement sprang up led by Josip Tito. Following Germany’s defeat‚ Tito reunified Yugoslavia under the slogan "Brotherhood and Unity‚" merging together Slovenia‚ Croatia‚ Bosnia‚ Serbia‚ Montenegro‚ Macedonia‚ along with two self-governing provinces‚ Kosovo and Vojvodina. Tito‚ a Communist‚ was a strong leader who maintained ties with the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War‚ playing one superpower
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SAN FRANCISCO COFFEE HOUSE: AN AMERICAN STYLE FRANCHISE IN CROATIA By Ionut Georgescu‚ Cohort 13‚ Ionut.georgescu@global-‐innovation.com.ro 1. Should Tensek and Pacek consider franchising over organic growth? In a certain moment‚ YES. “Franchising is the practice of leasing for a prescribed period of time the right to use a
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Franelić‚ I.‚ Pejak‚ M. (2008)‚ European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. Report for the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb‚ Croatian Public Health Institute‚ Zagreb Leffert‚ N.‚ Benson‚ P O ’Leary‚ Z. (2009) The Essential Guide to Doing Research. London. Sage Publications. Roviš‚ D (2010) Capacity building for health promotion and drug prevention in Croatia‚ Journal of Public Health‚ vol. 19‚ 1‚ pp. 57-68 doi 10.1007/s10389-010-0385-z Seale‚ C Silverman D.‚ (2010). Doing
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feeling that you’re in good hands with such an experienced‚ knowledgeable brand owner as Durex is doing sex surveys every year to explore situation on the market. Durex Company in Croatia is also dealing with these researches. Results of Durex Sex survey 2005 showed that people in Croatia are having sex for the first time at an average age of 17.3. People have had an average number of 7.5 sexual partners (men have had more sexual partners
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Technology 1 ERP System Implementation and Business Process Change: Case Study of a Pharmaceutical Company Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic and Mario Spremic Department of Business Computing‚ Graduate School of Economics & Business‚ University of Zagreb‚ Croatia The main objective of this paper is to present the impacts of information technology (IT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in business process renovation and to discuss selected aspects of the business processes and information modelling
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“Star Wars Episode 8” spoilers reveal that Disney and Lucasfilm are using drones to shoot down paparrazi spies during the filming in Croatia. After news broke out that “Star Wars Episode 8” spoilers have leaked out aerial photos of the very open and public set in Croatia‚ securities were implemented to ensure spying doesn’t happen during the filming of the eighth installment. Making Star Wars has explained that there is an elite “Star Wars” team that will willingly go to drone warfare with people
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But they are divided among twenty- four ethnic groups and three religions--- Roman Catholicism‚ Eastern Orthodoxy‚ and Islam. Both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used in Yugoslavia‚ which is composed of six republics. These republics: Serbia‚ Croatia‚ Slovenia‚ Montenegro‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ or Macedonia Yugoslavia’s physical geography is equally varied. To the north stretches the Danube River and Hungarian Basin. A Nation Divided Yugoslavia means “Land of the Southern Slavs”. But a
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subject to legislative changes which could potentially negatively impact the financial situation of the company. SFCH must also take into account the public view of franchising in Croatia. Due to the smaller population and limited number of franchises in the country‚ franchising is not a well known practice in Croatia. Not only is the general public misinformed about franchising‚ local banks have virtually no understanding of the practice. This situation limits the number of people who might be interested
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