Italia. The land of fashion, food, fun, and beauty. When the Italian's call their land Belpaese, the beautiful country, they are not joking in the least. From the gorgeous Colosseum in Rome to vinyards in Sicily, there is never too much to see and take in in Italy. Italy became a nation state in ...

Brittany The particular significance of Brittany lies in its transformation from a region marginal to the rest of France, both culturally and economically, to a leading agricultural area of the country (Roger Dalton & Corentin Canevet, 1999) Brittany has traditionally suffered out migration, p...

The eastward EU enlargement: effects, expectations and dangers Since May 1, 2004, ten countries in the Central and Eastern European region join the EU as new member states. Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia comprise these ten ...

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...

In this journal entry we ask ourselves who we are as Austrians. What does it mean to be an Austrian and come from our country? Today's Austrians are a complicated and interesting people. They have a long history closely tied with Germany. Both countries share many of the same policy issues, and...

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

Theoretically, the european union is a very good idea, that is the thought that a group of countries can:ŸTrade freely with one anotherŸEstablish policy towards non-member countriesŸCoordinate member`s general econonic and agricultural policiesŸEstablish free movement of labour and capital throu...