... country for being the fourth energy corridor of Europe. Turkey and the Diversification of European Energy Supply Geographically, Turkey is located in a strategic region connecting Europe to the Caspian and Middle Eastern regions, which hold a substantial amount of the world's oil and gas reserves. According to Barysch, Turkey is located between 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves and the European ... is officially given a go ahead in July 2009. It is the flagship project of the diversification idea of the EU and vitally important for Turkey, EU, the Caspian and the Middle Eastern Re...

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... of language. A generation of mobility in the labour market and the long-term effects of World War II influencing the migration of labour from the Middle East and Northern Africa into Western Europe have led to a growth of the "multi-cultural" society. However, that alone requires further qualification, by ... without doubt provides a platform of stability for the member states of Europe, amidst the growing threat from lesser-developed regions such as the Middle East and Central Africa. The influence and strength in unity with the United States is justly favourable in these times for main...

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... sake of brevity at this point and with regard to the experiences during the last 215 years of the American history and the last 12 years in (central-)Eastern European Countries I − a true believer in institutions, I now admit − decide here to further follow the second answer: "Constitutions matter!" 9 ... which will prevent a return to the unstable pre-war system, with Germany once again caught in the middle between East and West, is to integrate (Germany itself and) Germany's Central and Eastern European neighbors into the West- European post-war system and to establish a wide rang...

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... high point of the kingdom's supremacy and extension. After that, for a prolonged period of over hundreds of years the information and learning of the Middle Ages sustained to originate from the departments that Charlemagne created. Later on, the first sign of insecurity and affinities to suspension were started to developed when ... of Verdun, the entire kingdom was equally distributed among three brothers. The western side of the Franconian Empire went to Karl the Bald and the eastern region of the Franconian Empire went to Ludwig the German. Italy with Rome and the original regions of ...

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... to 1945. Today's European Union is a heavily integrated bloc of interdependent states which is about to absorb most of the former Communist part of Eastern Europe, making this Union an entity comprising 27 states by the end of the decade. During the last half a decade Europe has shown remarkable ... whilst the latter includes the new axis between London, Madrid and Rome and in an enlarged Europe is bound to include most of the Eastern bloc which have recently joined NATO and have already openly manifested their US sympathies. As said previously, there is nothing particularly new about ...

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... Romania is faced with yet another question, that of whether or not the country has undergone a socializa-tion process comparable to the other former Eastern bloc states. Does the Roma-nian population show any interest whatsoever in taking an active part in the fu-ture political, social and economic ... Thus, in October 2002, the Hungarian president Ferenc Madl was the first Hungarian head of state to be visiting Romania after the breakdown of the communist Eastern bloc. A few days ago during a meeting with the Romanian Diaspora on the Black Sea coast, the Romanian prime-minister Nastase...

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... mirroring the American thought, which is not social. In that sense, Europe primarily has appeared to be a bipolar model: social popular government versus oppression; Manichean; a fight in the middle of good and fiendishness. As indicated by the European Idea, social citizenship must be unrestricted, particularly that of its most defenseless individuals. Obligation regarding the feeble is a community excellence that ... nonattendant in American belief system. Thus the Socialist development is to a great extent truant in the New World. That is the key: the social intuition. The immense div...

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... of economic liberalization and globalization. Its economic growth averaged to 6% a year, led by strong advances in the services sector. Brief Description of Poland Poland remains the leader in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), as well as in terms of its annual growth. Fifteen years of successful economic reforms has made Poland an attractive destination for ... (NBP) is in charge of Poland's monetary policy, regulated by a ten member Monetary Policy Counsel (MPC). Poland's current currency, the zloty, ended 2004 as one of the strongest currencies in...

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... high quality in this country. There is a 99% literacy rate for citizens over the age of 15 years old. In the year 1995, Germany had a unification of their western and eastern parts as a result of the end of a four-decade long Cold War. When this happened, the whole country basically kept the West German political and economic system, instead of using ... a combination of the two Eastern and Western regions. Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor preferred this approach, calling it a "fast track" to unification. And so with that, the country resumed using West Germany's Basic Law ... i...

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... 's, immigrants have been coming to America either from the northern or western part of Europe. Another great wave began to arrive around 1890, consisting mainly of people from southern and eastern Europe. This new immigration included European Jews, Greeks, Slavs, and Italians. The Jews reason for there immigration was because of religious oppression and economics. Between 1891 and 1900 3.5 million people ... for immigration was 1901 to 1910. During that decade nearly 8.8 MILLION people arrived in America. Out of all those new immigrants, more than 70 percent were from the southern and e...

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... the E.U. Turkey is one of three countries which has recently applied for membership to the E.U. in 2004. It is situated in South Eastern Europe, and has borders with Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Syria, Georgia and Bulgaria. The country has a population estimated at around 70 million ... Turkey joining the E.U. As I have previously mentioned Turkey has borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria. IT is considered by some to be part the Middle East, and therefore not a European country at all. If Turkey is included in the E.U. then which other countries might try to join? Israel perhaps ... targets. These t...

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... , Switzerland and Austria in the south, and the Czech Republic as well as Poland in the east. Germany is known as a sturdy stiff bridge to the countries of centeral and Eastern Europe. Germany has many extraordinary Geographical features. It has many charming landscapes to come across. Germany is divided into five regions with different topographical features: the North German Plain, the ... people live in Rhine Ruhr where towns and cities are so close together, because there are no boundaries between them! The Western part of Germany has more people than the Eastern. The majority of the...

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... of the Netherlands are machinery and equipment, chemicals, fuels, and foodstuff with the majority of its exports going to the European Union (78%) and the rest going to Central and Eastern Europe and the United States. It has the third highest value of agricultural exports, behind only The United States and France. In 2000 its exports were worth 210.3 billion dollars ... (CIA). The Netherlands also imports a great deal (201.2 billion dollars). 56% of its imports come from the European Union, 9% from the United States, and the rest from Central and Eastern Europe. Much of its imports are ...

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... civil war is not stopped the consequences for the United States are crucial. The continuation of political unrest in Syria could spread to the entire Middle East and require U.S military intervention. Military intervention can be immensely detrimental to the US economy, primarily due to the excessive cost to the ... alliance. Most importantly Russia's economic interests influence the behavior to a greater extent. "Moscow is the number one arms supplier in the Middle East"9 and their weapon sales to Syria and Algeria alone total to forty-eight billion US dollars per year.10 Russia's one a...

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... . These recessions are mainly occurring due to the individual consumer's lack of faith in his or her own domestic market, due to a combination of factors. The trade between Western and Middle-Eastern countries has suffered significantly, and will also continue to be a problem for some time. The WTO's efforts are being undertaken optimistically as economists are hoping for a rebounding worldwide economy. One ... economic recessions of the world will have little effect on China. Another concern that the WTO has taken into concern is the control and elimination of terrorist funding in the M...

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One of the principal reasons for exploration was the urge to find new routes to East Asia. In the 1400s, merchants had brought many goods to Europe from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The products' demand raised the desire for commerce. European countries were mainly interested in spices from Asia. They had learned how to use spices and to conserve ... charters to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh to colonize America. The first English establishment became known as Jamestown, which was in modern-day Virginia. Other areas along the eastern coast as far north as the New World end...

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... Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/) Although the EU forces are not yet compatible, but Global Trends predicts that "NATO will have accepted many, but not all, Central/Eastern European countries. Europena Security and Defense Policy will be set in terms of partnership with, rather then replacement of NATO." The data shown above concludes that the EU has the ... internal and interstate conflict. Upon further research I have found that the US Defense Intelligence Agency further agrees, for their key concerns are that of: a terrorist attack, worsening conditions in the ...

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... types of immigration for years and are ahead of the Germans by almost a decade in policy. Even with 86 million people living in Germany and it being right in the middle of Europe its population is not very diverse. With 91.5% of it's population being German, 2.4% being Turkish, and 6.1% being made up of "Other" groups such as: Serbo-Croatians, Italians, Russians ... world, and the largest in the European Union. Even if you were not to take advantage of it's domestic market, Germany is at the crossroads of Europe connecting Central and Eastern Europe, it also borders 8 other countries th...

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... and Asia and bordering the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas, Turkey utilizes its unique geography to construct its synthesis of modernization. Also, surrounded by the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East, regions capable of exporting their problems through terrorism, Turkey is considered by many to be the front-line state of the new age. It has an widespread coastline on ... the economically and strategically resurgent Eastern Mediterranean, and a demonstrated ability to work with its powerful neighbors, Russia, Iran and Syria. It will also play a big role in the economic and p...

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... profit that is received to the United States for supplying weapons to both Greece and Turkey is not only money, but use of their military bases. Turkey is a the only Middle Eastern ally to the United States, that is why they are so crucial to the security of the United States. Greece is very important to the United States because Greece is ... ...

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