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Major Issues Facing The European Union

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Six Reasons the european union Will Not Last
Introduction
The european union (EU) is the heart and soul of modern Europe, yet it is not without its challenges. Whether it comes to trade issues, member … immigration crisis, 3) the open borders policy, 4) the problem of NATO, 5) the ultra-high and potentially catastrophic levels of debt that the european Central Bank (ECB) has made possible through its easy credit and low interst rates monetary policy, and now 6) the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, … it was not actually until 2020 that Brexit officially took place (BBC, 2020). The UK now stood apart from more than two dozen european nations for the first time since 1973. Not only was this a shocking new development that showed the world the UK was going … vocal about their issues with the EU, and now that the UK has officially taken steps to leave……

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Amadeo, K. (2019). Eurozone debt crisis. Retrieved from  https://www.thebalance.com/eurozone-debt-crisis-causes-cures-and-consequences-3305524 

BBC. (2020). Brexit. Retrieved from  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887 

Chadwick, L. (2020). Recession could tip EU. Retrieved from https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/27/could-covid-19-coronavirus-trigger-a-european-economic-recession

Grose, T. (2020). Coronavirus tests Europe’s open borders. Retrieved from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-03-02/europes-open-border-agreement-may-become-casualty-to-coronavirus

Herszenhorn, D. (2019). Europe’s NATO problem. Retrieved from  https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-nato-problem-defense-procurement-training-research/ 

Pew Research Center. (2016). European opinions of the refugee crisis. Retrieved from  https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/16/european-opinions-of-the-refugee-crisis-in-5-charts/ 

Wirtz, B. (2019). The Beginning Of The End Of Open Borders In Europe. Retrieved from  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-open-borders-in-europe/ 

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The EU And European Goverments

Pages: 1 (410 words) Sources: 2 Document Type:Essay Document #:60649240

How has the relationship between the economy and european governments changed in the past 20 years? Has Eastern Europe become more like the western part of the Continent?
Overall, thanks to the … governments changed in the past 20 years? Has Eastern Europe become more like the western part of the Continent?
Overall, thanks to the european union (EU), greater cohesion has been achieved over the past 20 years between the major european powers. There has been a facilitation of the flood of both human and monetary capital between the member nations, as well as trade, … number of its members have fought long and hard to ensure their general stability within the EU and continue their membership within the union. The european union has also had some notable economic successes as a collective unit, such as a recent trade deal with Japan, and enacting anti-trust and privacy … (including Google)……

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Belin, C. & Reinert, T. (2019). The eclipse of the European Union’s global influence. The Brookings Institute. Retrieved from:  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/04/08/the-eclipse-of-the - european-unions-global-influence/

Lehne, S. (2019). Europe’s East-West divide: Myth or reality? Carnegie Europe. Retrieved from:  https://carnegieeurope.eu/2019/04/11/europe-s-east-west-divide-myth-or-reality-pub-78847 

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Investing Overseas Market Entry Decision Making

Pages: 8 (2428 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:23626142

International Acquisition
EU or not EU?
On the question of whether to expand into the european union or not, there are a few different considerations for an American firm. While the EU has a fairly complex regulatory environment that could … material for exporters, and there are US Commercial Service teams deployed across Europe to help American companies enter these markets (Export.gov, 2019). Furthermore, european markets are among the most mature and sophisticated in the world. For an American company seeking expansion, they will find that Europe has … strategy, access to capital markets and financial institutions, along with plentiful potential partners or acquisitions in most fields. The member nations of the european union are sufficiently sophisticated to handle any chosen market entry strategy for the American exporter (CE Intelligence, 2019).
Typically, different industries have different preferences … other EU countries. Or they can buy a company anywhere in the……

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CE Intelligence. (2019) EU – market entry strategies. CE Intelligence.com. Retrieved December 5, 2019 from  http://www.ceintelligence.com/content_manager/contentPages/view/eu-market-entry-strategies 

Chapman, K. & Edmond, H. (2010) Mergers/acquisitions and restructuring in the EU chemical industry: Patterns and implications. Regional Studies. Vol. 34 (8) 753-767

Conyon, M., Girma, S., Thompson, S. & Wright, P. (2003) The productivity and wage effects of foreign acquisitions in the United Kingdom. The Journal of Industrial Economics. Vol. 50 (1) 85-102.

EF.com (2019) English proficiency index. EF.com. Retrieved December 5, 2019 from  https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/ 

Export.gov (2019) European Union – market entry strategy. Export.gov. Retrieved December 5, 2019 from  https://www.export.gov/article?id=European-union-Market-Entry-Strategy 

Girma, S. (2002) The process of European integration and the determinants of entry by non-EU multinationals in UK manufacturing. DOI:10.1111/1467-9957.00305

Girma, S. (2005) Technology transfer from acquisition FDI and the absorptive capacity of domestic firms: An empirical investigation. Open Economies Review. Vol. 16 (2) 175-187.

Lamson, M. (2016) 5 things you need to know before doing business in Europe. Inc. Magazine. Retrieved December 5, 2019 from  https://www.inc.com/melissa-lamson/5-things-you-need-to-know-before-doing-business-in-europe.html

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Income Inequality And Poverty

Pages: 5 (1391 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Annotated Bibliography Document #:25579678

… paper is to identify the efficacy of government social expenditure in the alleviation of problems relating to income inequality and poverty in the european union nations. To achieve the paper's main objective, the DEA technique is applied, which allows for the comparison of the social efficacy of the … nations. To achieve the paper's main objective, the DEA technique is applied, which allows for the comparison of the social efficacy of the european union nations. Also, the Malmquist index is determined and decomposed to identify the changes in the efficacy as well as their sources in the ……

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Bonito, J. D. M., Daantos, F. J. A., Mateo, J. C. A., & Rosete, M. A. L. (2017). Do entrepreneurship and economic growth affect poverty, income inequality, and economic development. Review of Integrative Business & Economics Research, 6(1), 33-43.

Chiazor, I. A., Egharevba, M. E., & Ozoya, M. I. (2016). Widening Inequality and Poverty in the Developing World-Micro-Financing as a Viable Solution. The Social Sciences, 11(13), 3286-3293.

Chotia, V., and Rao, N.V.M. (2017). Investigating the interlinkages between infrastructure development, poverty, and rural-urban income inequality: Evidence from BRICS nations. Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 466-484.

Cyrek, M. (2019). Government social spending in the EU countries: efficiency in poverty and income inequality reduction. Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, 14(3), 405-424.

Omar, M. A., & Inaba, K. (2020). Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis. Journal of Economic Structures, 9, 1-25.

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Combating The Zika Virus

Pages: 3 (1020 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Essay Document #:79152552

… as a result of this latest outbreak of this highly communicable disease (Jakab, 2018).
This recent outbreak was all the more discouraging for european health care officials since it represented the highest level of measles in Europe for more than a decade (Jakab, 2018). International health care ……

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Areas at risk of Zika. (2018). U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved from https://www. cdc.gov/zika/geo/index.html.

Clinical evaluation and disease. (2018). U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved from  https://www.cdc.gov/zika/hc-providers/preparing-for-zika/clinicalevaluationdisease.html .

Introduction to epidemiology. (2018). U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved from  https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section10.html .

Jakab, Z. (2018, August 22). Measles cases hit record high in Europe: WHO rash of 41,000 measles cases in Europe this year alone. Cape Times, 2.

Measles in Serbia. (2018). U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved from https://wwwnc. cdc.gov/travel/notices/watch/measles-serbia.

Takia, A. & Wichmann, O. (2014, October). Measles incidence and reporting trends in Germany, 2007-2011. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 92(10), 742-746.

Tomášková, H. & Zelená, H. (2018, March). Serological survey of measles immunity in the Czech Republic, 2013. Central European Journal of Public Health, 26(1), 22.

What you need to know. (2018). U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Retrieved from https://www. cdc.gov/zika/about/needtoknow.html.

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Immigration Terms And Analysis Of Interview

Pages: 7 (2224 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:15654754

… perhaps evident most in the Huntington (2009) and similar views on the Hispanic “threat.” Even in a post-colonial world, the belief in white/Western european superiority persists.
Juan remains optimistic. Racist views on immigration and attitudes towards Mexicans and other Latin(x) people are not majority opinions, he points ……

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Fox, C. & Guglielmo, T.A. (2012). Defining America’s racial boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945. American Journal of Sociology 118(2) (September 2012): 327-379.

Gonzales, R. G. (2011). Learning to be illegal: Undocumented youth and shifting legal contexts in the transition to adulthood. American Sociological Review 76(4) (AUGUST 2011): 602-619

Huntington, S.P. (2009). The Hispanic challenge. Foreign Policy, 28 Oct, 2009.

Jones-Correa, M. (2012). Contested ground. Transatlantic Council on Migration. July 2012.

Massey, D. S. (1986). The social organization of Mexican Migration to the United States.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 48(7):, Vol. 487, Immigration and American Public Policy (Sep., 1986): 102-113?

Massey, D. S. (n.d.). What were the paradoxical consequences of militarizing the border with Mexico?

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Culture Formation In The Internet Age

Pages: 3 (1044 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:46746942

...European union Online Access and Culture
Access to the Internet has been linked to a number of different influences over culture. As a new means of communication, the Internet has transformed how culture is disseminated around the world, but it has also had a significant influence on how culture is created. All told, the influence of the online access to culture is far-reaching, and there are few touchpoints of culture that have not been subject to the influence of the Internet. Yet, there is often a temptation to oversimplify the influence that the Internet has had on culture, and cultures. This paper will provide an overview of some of the most important among the complex interactions between online access and culture.
Autonomy
One of the major themes in the discussion of the influence of the Internet on culture is the outcome of greater autonomy. The Internet has become the world’s largest store……

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Bauer, J., Berne, M. & Maitland, C. (2002) Internet access in the European Union and in the United States. Telematics and Information. Vol. 19 (2) 117-137.

Castells, M. (2019) The impact of the Internet on society: A global perspective. Open Mind BBVA. Retrieved February 10, 2020 from  https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-impact-of-the-internet-on-society-a-global-perspective/ 

DiMaggio, P. (2014) The Internet and cultural industries. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved February 10, 2020 from  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531341/the-internet-and-the-cultural-industries/ 

Huizer, E., Shah, S., Arroyo, J., Okorafor, U. & MacKinnon, R. (2017) A brave new world: How the Internet affects societies. Chatham House. Retrieved February 11, 2020 from  https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MeetingSummary.BraveNewWorld.pdf 

Voiskounsky, A. (1998) Internet: Culture diversity and unification. Proceedings on Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology. Retrieved February 11, 2020 from  https://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/catac98/pdf/07_voiskounsky.pdf 

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The American Friends And The Peace Movement

Pages: 8 (2337 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:47374510

… (Ingle, 2016). The AFSC essentially helped to support and come to the aid of the victims of war, whether they were Jewish, Russian, european, African, etc. (Frost, 1992). This paper will discuss the background of the organization, why the Nobel Committee awarded them the Peace Prize and … the United States government regarding the latter’s containment policy. The AFSC called for a de-escalation of tension between the US and the Soviet union. Not surprisingly, considering the hysteria of the time (i.e., McCarthyism), the AFSC was monitored and suspected of being a Communist sympathizer as a … and Brethren to manage the governmentally settled Civilian Public Service (CPS) arrangement of work camps for faithful dissenters (Ingles, 1992). The AFSC resettled european outcasts in the United States, and by building up a regional office in San Francisco the organization also opposed the US government’s Japanese-American … setting up provisional houses, managed……

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Franklin, S. (2020). American Friends Service Committee. Retrieved from  https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1167/american-friends-service-committee " target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">

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Principles Of American Democracy

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...European union Why American Democracy Has Failed and Why the Anti Federalists were Right
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The Declaration of Independence, written in 1776, asserted that “all men are created equal.”[endnoteRef:2] It was an Enlightenment notion: Thomas Paine, an avid follower of the Enlightenment Movement in Europe, had written the Rights of Man to support and promote the ideas of the philosophical revolution that had gotten underway decades prior with Rousseau’s Social Contract and the latter’s pursuit of naturalism in opposition to the Old World values, virtues and order.[endnoteRef:3] The problem that occurred in America was that the Founding Fathers were not of the same mind as Thomas Paine, though they readily used his words and ideas in their Declaration of Independence. Paine truly believed in the equality of all men and he was whole-heartedly opposed to the institution of slavery. The Founding Fathers were not, and the equality they expressed in the Declaration……

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Declaration of Independence.  (1776).  Retrieved from  https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript 

Rousseau, J.  (2018). Retrieved from  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/ 

Van Voris, J. (1996). Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. New York City: Feminist Press at CUNY.

Hunt, L. (2016). "Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights." In The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition, edited by Lynn Hunt, 1-31 (Boston: Bedford), 1.

Hunt, L. (2016). "Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights." In The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition, edited by Lynn Hunt, 1-31 (Boston: Bedford), 5.

National Assembly. “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 26 August 1789.” Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/3216

Foote, S.  (1958).  The Civil War:  Ft. Sumter to Perryville.  NY:  Random House.

Brutus No. 1. (1787).  http://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus01.htm

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Peace Efforts Of The American Friends Committee War Relief USA

Pages: 5 (1635 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:43488948

… (Ingle, 2016). The AFSC essentially helped to support and come to the aid of the victims of war, whether they were Jewish, Russian, european, African, etc. (Frost, 1992). This paper will discuss the background of the organization and show that the Nobel Committee awarded them the Peace ……

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Franklin, S. (2020). American Friends Service Committee. Retrieved from  https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1167/american-friends-service-committee " target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">

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