... , it goes to show that Turkey will also improve its human rights in society as the economy gets better and the turkish people start demanding change. Another reason why Turkey should be added to the EU is because their is an "increasingly well-educated population can help the EU cope with the problems of an ageing population " (bbc). This is true for multiple reasons. Young people ... added pressure of more people without a job, it may not be such a good idea at this time to add Turkey to the EU. There is also the fear that with recent scares of bankruptcy in places like Greece, the same...

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... are just a few figures: Food is cheaper When you protect your agriculture, the cost of your food goes up " by an estimated $1,500 per year for a family of four in the European Union (1997); by the equivalent of a 51% tax on food in Japan (1995); by $3 billion per year added to US consumers' grocery bills just to support sugar in one year (1988 ... billion, including $12.3 billion for the US, $0.8 billion for Canada, $2.2 billion for the EU and around $8 billion for developing countries. The same goes for other goods When the US limited Japanese car imports in the early 1980s, car prices...

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... literary Dutch. Dialects were still spoken throughout the country. Finally, Modern Dutch extends from 1550 to the present day. The most important event during this time frame for language was the publication of the Statenbijbel from 1619 to 1637. The Statenbijbel is the authorized version of the Scriptures, which spread Modern Dutch in the southern part of the country. Between 1516 and 1814, Modern Dutch lost its ... diminished, coal became a vital instrument to produce energy. After World War II, the Dutch turned to petroleum and natural gas as sources of energy. Portions of these fue...

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... Serbia, which had become more explosive. Therefore Austria seized the chance of a war between them by accusing Serbia for the assassination. However this war was supposed to remain local. Nonetheless the Austro-Serb quarrel explains the outbreak of the war, however it does not explain why it became a world war. These are a few reasons that are suggested for the escalation of the world war. However some are more plausible than others: o Naval race ... likely by backing up Serbia o Germany backing up Austria The above points which are highlighted in bold, show the more plausible reasons f...

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... very well educated and sought to exercise the power they had to protest all of the injustices going on in Europe. They opposed war and the spread of communism. After the world wars, Europe aimed to protect against even more violence in the region. To avoid this, many European countries began looking for greater international cooperation in the region. The successful treaty between several Western European states expanded heavy ... industry and encouraged economic growth throughout Europe, and a few years later the European Union was created. The EU was created to encourage economic grow...

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... resentment led to a series of wars and confrontations between the two countries. The English were largely an isolated community who were busy consolidating their power while the French and Spanish fought for control of northern Italy. The English were Anglican and would be sympathetic towards their fellow Protestants in Europe when the drums of war would begin to beat. MittleEuropa was a piece ... aroused for Charles the 5th was that the Reformation had spilt MittleEuropa causing warfare between the Protestant German princes and the Catholics to the south. Charles was able to swiftly crus...

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... Because of Australia's proximity on the globe, trade to and from South-East Asia, in particular Japan and China, has seen a steady, overall increase in the amounts of imports and exports we perform over the last thirty years. There has also been much work on improving the tarnished relationship between Japan and Australia after the second world war, and a peaceful future looks ... promising as Australia leads the world in the amount of students studying the Japanese and Chinese language, for a nation that doesn ... 't speak it natively. The primary reason for this trading change is that ...

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... . Nationalism played a big role in Europe. It allowed the people who believed in old Europe to participate/live in the same community and government system with the people who agreed with the newer ways of Europe in the early 19th century. This was a big lead-in to the First World War because in addition to the clash between nation-states, there was rising internal friction within nation-states ... as well. The map of the European alliance system in Thick Facts 1 ... can be helpful to understand why Germany in particular was itching for a war. Within the Triple Entente, only France and ...

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... their stated goals is to "promote economic and social progress- in Europe. The treaty states: The Community shall develop and pursue its actions leading to the strengthening of its economic and social cohesion. In particular, the Community shall aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favored regions or islands, including rural areas. Europe has experienced many problems ... situation to achieve these end-results. Although during the Cold War, the United Nations was relatively powerless and almost a puppet of...

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... ; how to control Germany and secure a solution to the problem. The forth republic initially tried to achieve alliances and international control of Germany via control of the Ruhr arsenal, economies attachment of, the Saar to France, occupation of the Rhineland and the prevention of a German state. Three of these had to be abandoned by 1949, owing to differences between the four occupying powers. France then began to look ... of goods, workers and services. The first step along this way was the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) This was the first supra-national organisation and wa...

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... activity. EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton said: "Trade and investment create the dynamism that enables communities around the world to share their skills, experience and opportunities. Rather than resorting to protectionism, we need to manage globalization better." OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria added: "As recession looms, governments must resist pressures to reduce aid or ... restrict trade and cross-border investment." On the trade front, a successful conclusion of the stalled Doha Development Round of trade talks would help restore business confidence and boost flagging e...

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... stagnant financial system. The paper below goes into the history and consequences of the Marshall Plan. The Second World War left Europe in hunger, misery, unemployment and a housing crisis. The income for most people was largely destroyed, and a deep depression spread among the population. At the war's end, not only did the economy of the countries lie in ruins; the entire framework of the European economies had been upset by the war and its aftermath ... gain for the United States, because of the Marshall Plan, to have found valuable trading partners in the West European states and re...

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... well enough to sway an election? Maybe. Even though it is more likely a compilation of issues which caused the Tories to lose the election it is with out doubt that Labour's intentional "quieting" of its pro euro outlooks helped to sway the election in its favor as it added to their already decent platform. Furthermore Blair is hoping to introduce a referendum in support of ... the euro before the end of his term in 2006, however with less than one third of the population who actually support the euro under his belt it is questionable why he still ... wishes to pursue the euro; Even th...

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... 1998; pp.147) It hasn't just been the Commonwealth that Britain has been concerned with outside of mainland Europe, the idea of the "special relationship" with the US has also taken centre stage when analysing Britain's approach to the EU. Every British Prime Minister (PM) from World War II onwards has had to make a choice between the EU and the US, which has been especially visible in ... recent months when taking into account the recent situation in Iraq. The problem has been that ... George Bush's poodle and that relations between Europe and America increasingly involve zero-sum calcu...

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... control when it comes to foreign affairs? Legally standing it would seem that the Foreign Secretary who oversees conduct on foreign policy in the United Kingdom, even though this has not always been varying from Prime minister to Prime Minister. For the Prime Minister alone holds the ability to declare war and or deploy British troops. This obviously like everything in British law leaves ... Kingdom. Great Britain is constantly pushing policy that furthers themselves from the European Union including that of not having the Euro as their currency rather keeping the British pound which is...

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... that society benefited from a division of labor and commerce, and free trade benefited consumers in all nations. Mercantilism was the dominant trading policy for the European countries between 15th and 18th centuries. Mercantilism The United States was a direct result of the policy of mercantilism aimed by the British. The United States became a colony of England. It served as a market for British goods and exported to England goods ... a time when America trading is developing so rapidly. I believe that the war with the terrorists now is the biggest barrier in the U.S. future developme...

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... that this idyllic notion of Britain was a plain hoax. Throughout the history, Britain suffered under a political, war and economic turmoil. All of the above was a direct consequence of politics. Britain was always one step a head from the rest of the Europe, concerning the governmental structure of the country. But it seems that, although at one point the British Empire was at its highest point, this country never had ... of their voters. Political winds in Britain influenced the economic status of the country, too. The old game of playing a member "when we want to be one" of the Europe...

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... in poverty and they had to work in industrial areas to earn money. There were still wars at that time such as the Franco-Prussion war in the 1870s, and going to restaurants would not be the best thing to do. However, in the 1890s onwards, France had industrialized rapidly and lower-class and middle-class citizens had emerged from poverty. Although there were still ... lead to World War I, France was generally peaceful in the 1900s. Going to restaurants was likely to happen and people at time were wealthy as the Americans before the Great Depression started. Nevertheless, the story took ...

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... , March 5th 1997] Turkeys continued disputes with Cyprus would put the whole E.U. ideoligy in to question. Cyprus is due to join the E.U. in May 2004. One of the main aims of setting up the E.U. was to contain states like Germany in Post War Europe from ever waging war on another European country. Therefore the pact made between these member states, that they shall not attack eachother could come ... into contest. Turkey has been involved in a land dispute with Cyprus, they have had a 29 year occupancy of a third of Cyprus and because of this tensions between the two countries have risen...

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... international relations and it tries to serve the needs of all her members. The UN was set up in 1945 after the WWII to preserve world peace/ Today, there are already 189 members in the UN. When war breaks out, the Un security council may issue a stern warning to the aggressor, organise a boycott or take military action to end the war. The UN security concil consists of 15 members ... , with 5 permanent members. The international court of justice also helps members to settle their disputes oeacefully. It is like a world ... court where countries can present their disputes. However, the U...

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... that this idyllic notion of Britain was a plain hoax. Throughout the history, Britain suffered under a political, war and economic turmoil. All of the above was a direct consequence of politics. Britain was always one step a head from the rest of the Europe, concerning the governmental structure of the country. But it seems that, although at one point the British Empire was at its highest point, this country never had ... of their voters. Political winds in Britain influenced the economic status of the country, too. The old game of playing a member "when we want to be one" of the Europe...

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... system or nation to a minimal extent. This is because the European Union connected many nations (mainly European countries), free trade between countries developed the economy for for many, and internationalism promotes peace, security, self-determination, economic stability, and humanitarianism between nations. The European Union connected many nations. The creation of the European Union (EU) mainly helped European countries. The European Union wasn't just committed to free trade; their ... and saw much success from it. Internationalism promotes peace, security, self-determination, eco...

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... as to form an alliance with other states or territories. From this, it is important to practice diplomacy in forming relation with other countries to maintain and ensure the peacefulness between states. Same goes to the nowadays method of diplomacy. In order to protect and promote as well as practice our national interest, diplomacy is very important. This is because by diplomacy we ... our national interest. In addition, negotiation is one of the type of diplomacy which is very suitable to use because through negotiation both countries will get their own benefits and the issues or prob...

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... time there was only one party which controlled everything. Before being like other communist countries, Albania was in a very difficult situation, it had just come out of war so everything was damaged and affected by the war. The new regime managed successfully to build houses, hospitals, universities so that everyone would be able to learn to read and write. In this way they won ... the hearts of Albanians but later all this was followed by many mistakes and step-backs. While other European countries were trying to work together and make the great European family work ... problem to f...

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... , until its fall, had been considered the United States" number one competitor. After the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, they have been very quiet on a global level. The fact that Russia is the only country with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the United States does play a factor, but the instability of the country provides a coordination problem, which helps the United States rest easily. Russia has been ... must go through to solidify as a collective actor in world politics. As it has been shown, no one country stacks up to the United States in terms of power. What we ...

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