Influence of the EU on Democracy in the UK One of the objectives of the creation of the European Union was to develop a single market and remove trading barriers so there would be standardisation of technical regulations and convergence of conditions between European markets. With this in mind‚ it saw the need for employers and employees to work together in order to achieve this. The main statement of the European social policy is the Social Charter (approved by 11 of the then 12 member states)
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Turkey: The eternal candidate to the European Union Geographical aspects concerning TURKEY: Turkey is situated in Anatolia and the Balkans‚ bordering the Black Sea‚ between Bulgaria and Georgia‚ and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea‚ between Greece and Syria. Other neighbours include Iran‚ Iraq‚ Azerbaijan‚ Bulgaria and Armenia The area of Turkey is 783‚562 km (land-98%) and 9‚820 km (water-2%). The country of Turkey straddles two continents: Asia and Europe. The European
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the term EU-15 is used to describe the states which made up the EU before the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. The issue that is being discussed relates to the economic impact of this enlargement round on the European Union. For practical reasons only some aspects of the economic impact on the European Union will be discussed. This seems to be an important issue since the 10+2 round brings countries into the European Union which GDP and thus the standard of living is far below average of the EU-15. The
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NAFTA/EU The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by the governments of Mexico‚ Canada and the United States. It creates a three way trade bloc in North America. The agreement was made on January 1‚ 1994. The trade bloc is the largest in the world as of 2010. The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states which are located mainly in Europe. Its capital is de facto Brussels. The EU operates through a system of independent institutions
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Compare the decision making process in the EU to that of other European Nations I am going to talk today about the processes of decision making in the EU and how it compares to that of the European nations‚ focusing mainly on western European nations such as France and Britain. I will firstly outline the processes undertaken by the EU when decision need to be made. Decisions made in the EU have a great effect on all member states‚ as such it is important that all the nations involved have a
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Eu Yan Sang was founded in 1879 and specializes in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It evolved from a small shop in Malaya selling traditional Chinese herbal remedies‚ to a global healthcare company manufacturing and retailing traditional Chinese medicines and herbs. It was listed on SGX in 2000 with operations in Hong Kong‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore‚ Australia‚ Macau and China‚ giving it a strong foothold all over the Asia Pacific region. Ranked 16th in consumer health in Singapore in 2011 and 7th in
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History of the Treaty of Constitution for Europe – TCE: The establishment of a Treaty of Constitution for Europe (TCE) was a treaty attempting to create a solid constitution for the European Union that was unratified. The ideia was replace the current European Union treaties with a Constitution text‚ with legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights and expand Qualified Majority Voting into policy areas. The Treaty was actually signed on October 2004 by representatives of 25 member states
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Slavery in the United States: Attempts at and Failure of Compromise The Path to Civil War Ms. Wallace • Sobrato High School Thursday‚ November 3‚ 2011 It all started at the Constitutional Convention The Three-Fifths Compromise Allowed southern states to count 3/5 of their slave populations for purposes of determining how many representatives they would receive in Congress. Since the number of electors a state receives in the electoral college is based on the number of members of Congress it has
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European Union and Republicanism In this paper‚ I am going to look at the possible organization of the European Union through the prism of republicanism. Continuing the idea of my previous writing‚ I would like to make the public goods be the object of the present paper. However‚ the reason to place public goods in the center of this discussion seems obscure for me. Possibly‚ my perception is stipulates by the concept of the republic‚ especially what is main within this concept‚ that is namely
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What were the political consequences of the attempts to deal with the threat of communism in Australia in the 1950’s. There were many Government attempts to ban the Communist Party of Australia in the 1950’s. The idea of “Reds under the Beds”‚ was presented in the Communist Party Dissolution Bill and the Petrov Affair‚ which Menzies used to his political advantage. These two attempts to ban the Communist Party led to a significant change in the Australia Labor Party in the 1950’s that changed the
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