Exergia is an independent firm of consultants operating internationally in the fields of energy and environment. It is a member of SESMA, the Hellenic Association of Management Consulting Companies (the Greek branch of FEACO). The company, founded in 1991, maintains a rapid growth rate through expan...

Perspectives on Global Telecommunications According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the 1996/97 World Telecommunications Development Report, it would take the gift of second sight and more to predict the course of the telecommunications industry over the next few years. On...

Modern European Economics German Reunification- On October 1989 the East German government was in crisis. President Honecker resigned, and his successor, Egon Krenz, promised to give Germany a reform. November 9, it was decided that the Berlin wall no longer served as a function, and east and we...

In the current world of computers, security has become a major source of contention among the industries leaders. Digital security, in particular, is one of the most heated topics of debate, and companies compete daily to offer the best, most cost effective and practical digital security soluti...

Too young to vote? At age 16 we are old enough to pay tax, get married and have kids, join the armed forces, pay adult fares on public transport, and be employed full time. we don't have to go to school, and our parents are no longer entirely in charge of our life. But there are still some things...

I. Introduction Regional integration efforts were created in order to remove economic barriers between nearby countries and prevent conflicts. It involves the trade of good without tariffs and quotas; free movement of services, labor, and capital; removal of trade policies that provide an advantage...

On the 1st of January 1999 the euro became the official currency of over 300 million Europeans in 11 of the world's most developed nations. Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain have all opted to gradually phase out their nati...

Dear Upper Management, I believe that we should move our company to Turkey because Turks have a very strong work ethic. Another key advantage is Turkey's low wage rate, significantly lower than others in the region. In America average employee for Jarcs Incorporated gets paid $12 per hour. If we m...

easyJet launched in 1995 as the UK's first 'no frills' budget airline. Exploiting a 1987 European Commission rule change, allowing any airline with a valid Air Operators Certificate to operate on any route within the EU, Stelios Haji-Ioannou launched the airline with an initial £5million. He...

Is Europe likely to catch up with the US? The European Union has gone through a number of different stages of economic integration since the late 1950s. Having started as a Free Trade Area the process of globalisation increased the need of further integration and led to a rapid development in the...

Development is a direction that every country should follow. Development is rarely distributed evenly within country, therefore core and periphery regions appear. Core is usually capital city, with relatively educated people. These areas are characterised by rising population through in-migration w...

Should be ‘Spam‘ banned? First I would like to introduce a problem of spamming. It is the mass sending of unsolicited commercial mail via Internet. Do spamming means to inundate the Internet with one type of mailing list and its obtrusion to people or companies, which do not want to...

Organizations like the WTO, EU, and NAFTA certainly have a positive influence on agricultural trade internationally. The United States has always traded internationally in the area of agriculture. U.S. AG Trading has resulting in almost $50.9 billion being exported and $38.9 billion being imported....

Globalization, according to its proponents, was supposed to be the panacea for the economic ills of the world. The results of opening up of economies' and free trade' during the past two decades[1], however, have at best been mixed. While the developed and rich countries have benefited f...

The decline of the dollar relative to the world's major currencies has caused concern among many executives, academics and policy planners in this country and abroad. The article from which this paper is based on is from the on-line version of BusinessWeek magazine titled, "The Falling Dol...

Economy, Finance, Industry, and Trade in Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland is currently enjoying a period of economic growth - Output and employment rising and unemployment falling - GDP*per head in Northern Ireland increased almost by 58%, this compares with a 49.9% increase in the UK as a whole...

Economic Overview As an affluent, high-tech industrial society, Canada today closely resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, the pattern of production, and high living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transfor...

Uniting the People and Government By the end of World War II, the nations of Western Europe all faced the burdens of the post-war economies. If not destroyed, a nation was in chaos and needed dramatic reconstruction. This is where democratic societies stepped in; recreation of sturdy government w...

By the end of World War II, the nations of Western Europe all faced the burdens of the post-war economies. If not totally destroyed, a nation was in chaos and needed dramatic reconstruction. This is where democratic societies stepped in; the recreation of sturdy government was crucial to the revival...

1. Introduction The Enlargement of the European Union is a great opportunity for European Countries to end the artificial divide that has split the continent for the past 60 years. Both, the EU and the candidate countries are able to profit economically and politically by the new enlarged domest...