... the exciting literatures, I find out that researchers collected data through network mapping, targeted email requests and document analysis. In my research, I only use network and document analysis methods. Instead of researching on what EU and China did for their bilateral relations, I focus on researching some new successful cases which can be related to Chinese culture. As Staines ( 2012 ) stated that ... studies of EU - China cultural relations must highlight the many extraordinary success stories which have catapulted cultural institutions to high levels of public visibility. Hence...

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... continued to strengthen and reshape the union. Today the EU boasts its own monetary system complete with central bank, several legislative bodies and a Supreme Court. With the addition of 10 eastern European nations in 2004 the population of the EU will increase by 75 million to 450 million citizens.5 This Enlargement presented an enormous management challenge forcing the adoption of ... of the EU. Intergovernmentalism is a term used to describe the institutional arrangements and decision-making procedures that allow two or more governments to cooperate in specific area while still reta...

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... deathrate (Cia.gov, 2002), only the small amount of foreign-born immigrants that come to Germany each year are keeping the population growth rate in the positive. Germany has even been considering performing a 180-degree turn on their current immigration policy by passing legislation to allow orderly immigration of highly skilled foreigners into the country. Anti-foreigner sentiment is high with ... the Bundesrat having it's members voted by each states population. The Judicial Branch is called the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) (Say that 10 times fast!) The Fede...

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... complete opposite. This proposition does nothing to increase English proficiency only punishes those who haven't had fair opportunity to learn it. For example in Huntington Park, municipal court employees were forbidden and punished if they spoke to each other in Spanish (Nichols 2). This minority of people who are mainly segregated are those who speak Spanish and Asian languages and they will be segregated ... the big picture and since it didn't apply to them didn't try to look. Although passed years ago there has not been a lot of publication of affects that it had on California, thou...

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... EP. Failure to adhere to this requirement may render the measure taken as invalid.8 The European Court of Justice points out that it is important for the EP to give its opinion in relation to an adoption of legislation.9 Despite having all of these legislative powers, it is more ... have the right to request the Commission to submit a proposal to address specific issues that the EP thinks are of considerable importance in implementing the Treaties.11 On top of that, this right extends so far as to put an obligation to the Commission to provide reasons to the EP ... active legislative po...

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PART I Problem Analysis In March 2010 the European Commission (EC) released the Europe 2020, a ten-year strategy which aims at making Europe a dynamic and competitive economy. Europe 2020 focuses mainly on R&D, reducing school drop-outs, the number of people living in poverty and greenhouse gas emissions , but its most important goal is to achieve an employment rate of 75% at EU-level by 2020. ... rate of 75% the European Employment Strategy (EES) was designed by the Treaty of Amsterdam. This concept consists of annual guidelines and targets for Members States (MSs) based on the 2020 goals in...

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Situation Analysis: Introduction: Germany is the world's most significant market for wine. More than fifty percent of wines consumed in Germany come from foreign producers. In 1999, imports have been equivalent to 12.4 million hl at a total value of two billion dollars. Core countries to import to Germany are EU countries (around 80%), namely Italy, ... 160.3 156.3 156.3 - Beer 131.9 131.2 127.5 127.5 - Wine 18.3 18.1 18.1 18.0 - Sparkling Wine 4.8 4.9 4.7 4.9 - Spirits 6.3 6.1 6.0 5.9 The German wine market developed rapidly in 1998. This positive development was based on a growth in red win...

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... . Also, the US has a lot of foreign investors, and if they decided to invest somewhere else, US economy would collapse (Barber, 2002). On the other hand, European economy, since the introduction of the common currency, is getting stronger. Inflation in Europe is declining, interest rates are stable and unemployment is improving. The US economy is not the only one ruling the world ... twelve currencies have been eliminated, these companies have to look for other ways of making business. A new concept has been introduced, the euro-dominant travelers" checks. Tourists can use them in Europe...

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... carcasses. Wallgren and Lindahl (1996) suggested that males were bitten more because they were more willing to fight for food. On the other hand, studies have shown that female pigs are more active during sexual maturity, and are interested in genital exploration and anal massage, further encouraging that females are more common to be those who bite the lazy and less ... High levels of aggression found within a certain breed compounded with an unfavorable environment increases incentive to bite. Lund and Simonsen (2000) discovered that significantly higher levels of aggression were found...

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... applications can be found at the local post office; if the post office does not accept applications, then the federal, state, or probate court will have applications. One should bring two identical passport sized photos, a certified birth certificate for proof of citizenship, and a state issued I.D. ... give a copy to a friend or family member at home and carry the other one separate from the originals. Visas are not required for U.S. citizens in most European countries with stays shorter than 90 days. There is still a small number of countries that require visas before entering their co...

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... change in consciousness and society beliefs often requires reevaluation of the needs for human and individual rights. Reevaluation is often overlooked or ignored until there is a revolution by the people forcing the government to change human and individual rights. The fight for individual and human rights began by the working class with the rise of communism. Communism relies on the ... violence to control European society. Fascist governments used violence as a cleansing device, eliminating the bad elements from society. Yugoslavia implemented the ethnic cleansings as a form of punish...

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... working Saturdays, 100% for working Sundays and working night hours between 8 pm until 8 am. The French Christian Workers" Confederation that started in 1919 consists of 250,000 members and is strongly represented by private education, the medical professions and social services. Creating stable jobs and maintaining ... fills in the gap between various categories and generations of employees and provides a democratic view that allows employees to be informed and ask questions regarding any new proposals and make the decisions regarding the new proposal. The CFDT overlooks the inequaliti...

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... ."" Greece has been spending irresponsibly for the past 15 years, creating a debt of over 150% of its GDP of $318.7 billion. Greece is in a bind, as it's accepted a payment of $145 billion from the ECB over five years on the basis that it also reduces its spending and increases taxes. One issue is that these imposed tax increases will not give Greece ... highest of all Eurozone nations, but a more important figure is that 27.9 percent of its GDP comes from industry, making it the largest producer of goods in the Eurozone. Because Germany's economy relies so heavily on exports, the succes...

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... there was, the waiting list is so long it could take years to find one, and by that time, the boy would have passed on. Yet right around the corner, scientists have developed technology that would enable them to grow the organs he needs with samples of his DNA. ... affect society and whether or not it is ethical. Although there is little disagreement about the profound effects the cloning of human beings would have on, the question remains of whether these effects will be positive or negative. Cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer, is the production of individuals ... who are genet...

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... parents and closed relatives. Finally marriage by consent which involves agreement and arrangement of the two people themselves. This is the practice in the United States and in most Western countries. There are two principal forms of marriages - monogamy and polygamy. Each of these involves different arrangements between ... fixed by priests, brides, and groom's family get together at groom's house and fixes the marriage date. On the day of marriage, under the canopy, a marriage platform is erected. On the platform, until the marriage is solemnized, the bride sits to the right of the g...

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The Maltese Islands are a group of small, low islands aligned in a NW-SE direction and located in the central Mediterranean at: Latitude: 3548'28" 3605'00" North Longitude: 1411'04" 1434'37" East They are situated on a shallow shelf, the Malta-Ragusa Rise, part of the submarine ridge, which extends from the Ragusa peninsula of Sicily southwards to the African coasts of Tripoli and ... cheese pastries), timpana (a macaroni, cheese and egg pie), and fenek (rabbit), which is usually fried or baked in a casserole or pie. Agriculture plays a wide multi-functional role in Malta and contributes to t...

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... million from the IMF.1 Per IMF's website in a transcript of a press briefing on Greece consisting of members of the IMF, European Central Bank (ECB), and European Commission (EC) in Greece provided several suggestions on how Greece can achieve stability in the country. The parties suggested severe reform in government and private sector is in dire need to reduce corruption. The structural ... reform will concentrate on areas in the healthcare, public enterprises, tax administration, privatization of state assets, and ... 's emergency liquidity assistance. Briefly, I will approach the fa...

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... euro per day. This means they see no future here. Supporting a family is almost impossible on one euro a day, especially in Kosovo when our families typically include four or more members. This means that one euro is split in four ways a family. People are ready to sacrifice everything to have more income. If they ... have Albanian schools. They did not allow us to study in Albanian, and we were forced to study in their schools. So this means that our people gave their best that could do just to see us in a better place. We gained independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. From that...

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... see what measures it proposed to exit the euro crisis," said Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman (Castillo). The majority of the responsibility to bail out countries that have overspent in previous years falls on Germany, who is expected to contribute one of the largest shares of bail out money at $54.7 billion. Japan will also contribute $60 billion to the International Monetary ... Fund, while China will contribute $43 billion. The United States declined to contribute this round (Castillo). In return for their large contribution, Germany requested cutbacks from aid recipients s...

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... that after the widering away of the nation state, other, older lines of division become of importancte again ( Huntington, 1993, pp 30, 48 ). On the other hand, Ignatieff argues that the answer to this bloody quetsion is found in the way the national identity of an indivivual is percieved, influence by his personal experience but also manipulated by the authorities. Suddenly, the ... history. One part shares the common Western European history starting with feudalism, while the other was heavily inlfluenced by the developments in the Ottoman Empire (Huntington, 1993, p. 30). An intersti...

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... fears spread of racism" was published by BBC News. It was based on evidence taken from the German police force in Germany. It was shown by the figures that racist crimes, including attacks on foreigners in Germany, had increased over more than fifty percent from ten thousand in 1999, to sixteen thousand in 2000 (www.bbc.co.uk/news) An increase of racist related rimes has ... also been seen in other countries, particular highly Sweden. In contemporary Europe there has clearly been a rise of racism. Harles Westin strongly ... . This led to people e.g. the employed, which were not necessar...

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... the US should provide bilingual services to its immigrants mainly by basing its argument on reasons derived from the benefits gained on its educational, social and economic aspects. Bilingualism can be taken to mean fluent regular use of two languages in the day to day communication. Scientist have been able to show that being able to speak two language is even more ... only argued that bilingual lead to national disunity ethnic group isolation and even encourage economic disparities between the rich and the poor (Mujica, 508). Opponents, on the other hand, felt that the English only mov...

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... practices. Also as terrible as it is slavery was one of the main basis's on which America was founded on. Besides taking Africans from their native land, Europeans had a negative view on other nations in general. A play by William Shakespeare called The Tempest involved the crew of a ship being shipwrecked on an island. Caliban, the only native there was a hideous creature made to be inhuman ... seen as an uncivilized animal. This is also parallel to Europeans befriending these nations that were explored but eventually enslaving them, which is what Prospero did to Caliban in the story. ...

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... . It was also a capitalist country where all business and property was owned by individuals and not by the government. America also believed in the people's liberty where their rights were protected and the government didn't interfere in people's lives. Russia, on the other hand was completely the opposite. It was run by dictators, where you could only vote for the communist party. One ... also divided east-west. The east is where they had one-party states as opposed to the west that had liberal democracies and steered away form dictatorship. On 4 April 1949, "twelve nations signed an ag...

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... all practices alike or 'the admission that the market alone cannot effect competition'13 but the EU has succeeded in framing cohesive and consistent objectives, identified in the Commission's Ninth Report on Competition Policy. Some of these objectives are achieving fairness in the market, protecting the consumer and penalising unlawful state subsidies.14 The proof that Competition law is connected with ... .'26 There are three broad categories of what article 101(1) prohibits: agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practises.27 The ...

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