The European Unification 500 years ago, the European age began. Portuguese seafarers swept Europe out of the medieval age, and boldly helped Europe to grow. During the European age, constant wars were fought among the many nations that made up Europe. By 1945, Europe had all but destroyed itself...

The Delegation of Trade Authority in the EUEven though, for the past several decades, member states of the European Union (EU) have been derelict with their power to act as independent players in international trade negotiations, they have recently begun to recapture some of their lost trade soverei...

30 countries and even more distinct cultures;it is now trying to adjust to new economic systems throughout the world. Today with the trend toward big trading blocks like: N.A.F.T.A. or G.N.A.T.T. Europe is trying to advance it's old Trading block called the European Economic Community (EEC) to becom...

Food safety is an issue that has plagued the food service industry since its beginnings. Although distributors as well as consumers have done an excellent job at curbing the issue, still there are issues that are simply "Inescapable". Many problems with food are associated directly with the envir...

What's in a Name? As an American citizen one is identified by a name, a social security number, a driver's license number, and perhaps even a birthday. However, there is something else much more important in defining the individual; culture. The beliefs, customs, rituals, and even surr...

The Euro and Its Potential for Harmfully Affecting Britain Great Britain, a leading country in the world since the industrial revolution is likely to eliminate a major barrier between itself and the formation of a European state in the next several years. The introduction of a new currency, the ...

Summary The beginning of the book gives stories of different people around the world and explains how these people are affected by their existence in a "global village". These examples are given for two reasons. The first is to show how the entire world is connected and the second is ...

Early in our great nation's history the trend was set to oppose and reject any attempt by the government to impose unfair or unnecessary taxation. Many debates have formed from this issue and most recently, with incredible strides having been made in the technology sector, the discussion has turned ...

Marshall Plan In the spring of 1947, the atmosphere in Europe was unstable and tense. World War II left behind misery, unemployment and a housing crisis. The cold weather intensified the severe economic and social dislocation that plagued the continent following the long and destructive war. At t...

EU Expansion This report is about the expansion of the European Union and the recently presented draft constitution. According to The Pocket Oxford English dictionary (seventh edition) this is the definition of a Constitution: Act/method of constituting composition; form in which state i...

"I am here in a country that hardly resembles the rest of Europe," said the French philosopher Montesquieu in 1729. Europe, then known as the 'old continent', was an aggregate of great powers, which had no interest in any sort of unification. Nearly three centuries later, new na...

Introduction Italians are the largest number of Europeans to have immigrated to the United States. They were part of one group of many people who left their homeland to seek a better life in the United States of America. America was known to be the land of opportunity so they decided to seek thei...

Mad Cow Disease There are two new diseases in a growing line to plague humankind. Bovine Spongiform Encenphalopathy and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, better known as mad cow disease, are new kinds of diseases that appear to be unstoppable. Mad Cow disease is caused by a mutated ch...

The ways in which nations interact with the world have, arguablysince the Industrial Revolution and even more so since the beginning of thejet age, depended upon their corporations. Globalization, first throughrapid international physical transit and more recently through instantaccess, at le...

Analysis of Luxembourg Introduction The purpose of this essay is to discuss the history, economy and politics of Luxembourg. First I will start by briefly discussing the history of Luxembourg and the recent economic trends and political structure of Luxembourg. Then I will discuss the cou...

If all states were democracies there would be no more wars. This is the statement that the Democratic Peace Theory claims to be true. It is a decidedly difficult statement to agree with however because at a glance it would appear that democracies are involved in war nearly as often as any other type...

In recent decades, migration has become a major global phenomenon and Europe has received a significance share of it. In order to move along with the changing demands of society, various countries within Europe had to make modifications to their legislations. However, it was not until a decade ago t...

The politics of privacy in America are imprudent and sentimental, fired by heart-tugging anecdotes that capture public imagination. Not too long ago TV actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered by an obsessive fan that obtained her address through the department of motor vehicles. This later led Con...

Why the Euro Does Not Stand a Chance For many years the United States has been the economic powerhouse of the world. The American economy has seen faster and larger growth when compared to any other industrialized nation. During national elections, one of the issues the media loves to discuss i...

Article Review - Letters from an American FarmerIn this Article the Farmer wants to know the feeling of an Englishman when he first time set foot in America. The main reason the Englishman Have come to America is due to the condition prevailing in England .These refuges are coming to very modern soc...

As the second World War was coming to an end, the representatives of some fifty nations met in San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter in an attempt to unify many countries. The date was June 26 1946, and the countries that signed the charter did so to put themselves in a better position i...

The Immigrants Experience In America1.During the peak period of the pre-Civil War immigration, from 1847 through 1857, 3.3 million immigrants entered the United States; 1.3 million were from Ireland and 1.1 million came from the German States. Most immigrants came essentially because of poor economi...

HungaryGeneral InformationGeographyHungary is located in Central Europe and occupies 93,030 square miles, sharing borders to the north with the Slovak Republic, to the northeast with Ukraine, to the east with Romania, to the south with Croatia and Serbia and to the west with Austria and Slovenia. T...

Trade Wars:Repeal of The Tariffs During the time between when President Bush decided to use economic statecraft and when he eventually relinquished his hard-line stance, a variety of factors influenced foreign policy of the greatest superpower in the world, the United States. In order to fully unde...