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| | European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The European Union or the EU is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 European countries, known as member states. | | | The European Court of Justice (incorporating the Court of First Instance) (25 judges (and 25 judges of CFI)) | | | On 29 October 2004, European heads of government and state signed the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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| | Talk:List of countries by date of nationhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The date of independence isn't a meaningful notion for most of the older countries and the date of formation of the modern state is too recent to mean anything. | | | Countries like Spain, and the UK, formed by the merger of states, do contain multiple nations. | | | As a rule of thumb, the traditionally accepted "date of natinohood" for most European nations is not that of "independence" but that of Christianization (e.g. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_countries_by_date_of_nationhood
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| | Enlargement of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Whether a country is european or not is a subject to political assessment by the EU institutions, but countries in the Council of Europe that fall onto the border (between Europe and Asia) all have a significant claim for EU membership (as shown with the accession of geographically Asian Cyprus). | | | Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, said the agreements "moved Switzerland closer to Europe." Joseph Deiss of the Swiss Federal Council said, "We might not be at the very centre of Europe but we're definitely at the heart of Europe". | | | Under the new voting system proposed in the draft EU Constitution, which favors small states, the "weight" of each Russian citizen would be one-eighth or one-tenth to that of countries like Estonia or Latvia, and one-half to one-third to that or France and Germany. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_European_Union
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| | European Affairs [A Publication of the European Institute] |
| | Either the European Union gets a constitution that streamlines its institutions, thereby abolishing the rotating presidency, or none of the long list of aspiring member countries is likely to enter the Union in the foreseeable future. | | | A strong European Union composed of 27 countries, all of them members of the euro and the Schengen zone, would almost be bound to feel the need for further institutional revision. | | | The equivalent would be for the United States to admit the Central American countries as new American states, with full voting rights and seats in the U.S. Congress. |
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http://www.europeanaffairs.org/current_issue/2005_summer/2005_summer_05.php4
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| | MSN Encarta - St. Louis (city) |
| | In the 19th and early 20th centuries, areas to the north and south of the central business district were settled by immigrant working families from Germany, Ireland, and many Eastern European countries, and by blacks from the American South. | | | The St. Louis metropolitan area consists of the city proper, six Missouri counties (St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, and Warren), and five Illinois counties (St. Clair, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, and Jersey). | | | The growth of metropolitan St. Louis correspondingly drew down the rural population of the state. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566927/St_Louis_(city).html
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| | European |
| | In April 2000, the families took the case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg; a decision was pending at year's end. | | | With all the other European powers with whom the United States have formed diplomatic relations and with the Sublime Porte the best understanding prevails. | | | Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease. |
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http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/definition/english/Eu/European.html
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| | The Baltic states: security and defence after independence |
| | When there is a clear decision to admit other Central European countries into NATO, Lithuania would expect an explicit or implicit political commitment concerning Lithuania's membership of NATO, or even a clear timetable and a procedure for admission. | | | This clearly illustrates that Lithuania, together with the other Baltic countries, is in the mainstream of European integration and is able to make a positive contribution to Europe's security. | | | Today the situation is different: all Central European countries have now very clearly expressed their wish to join the European integration process, whereas the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have embarked on an integration process of their own. |
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http://www.iss-eu.org/chaillot/chai19e.html
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| | Europe |
| | Almost all European countries are members of the Council of Europe, the exceptions being Belarus, the Holy See (Vatican City), and Kazakhstan. | | | Note that this is not a list of all dependencies of all European countries, some of which are found on other continents. | | | Language: English In rejecting the new European constitution, voters in France and the... |
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http://hallencyclopedia.com/Europe
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| | EUROPA - Enlargement : Key documents on Enlargement 2000 |
| | At its meeting in Santa Maria da Feira in June 2000 the European Council agreed that all of the countries in the region are "potential candidates" of the Union. | | | The Helsinki European Council (1999) stated that the Union will take decisions on the necessary institutional reforms by the end of 2000 so as to be able to welcome new members as from the end of 2002. | | | Most countries have made good progress in the fields of services, capital movement and company law. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report_11_00
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| | Middle East Open Encyclopedia: EU |
| | The European Union or the EU is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 European countries, known as member states. | | | The European Court of Justice (incorporating the Court of First Instance) (25 judges (and 25 judges of CFI)) | | | Below is a table and three graphs showing, respectively, the GDP (PPP), the GDP (PPP) per capita and the GDP (nominal) per capita for the European Union and for each of its 25 member states. |
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http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?title=EU
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| | EEA - Themes - climate - Reports (List of reports) |
| | This, the third of the European Environment Agency's Environmental signals reports - Benchmarking the Millennium, provides an insight into the state of Europe's environment and is targeted at high-level policy makers in EEA member countries and the European Union, as well as the wider public. | | | This report is an indicator-based assessment of European Community and acceding and candidate countries' greenhouse gas emission trends, emission projections and existing and proposed policies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010. | | | This is the third pan-European state of the environment report produced by the EEA. |
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http://themes.eea.eu.int/Environmental_issues/climate/reports
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| | AGIS - Police and Judicial co-operation |
| | In the context of the EU enlargement process, this initiative will reinforce the collaboration and exchange of information and best practices between the European Union (EU) and future EU neighbouring countries in the counter-trafficking field, in particular in the areas of fight against organised crime and victim protection. | | | This project is implemented under the European Commission Directorate General Justice and Home Affairs’ AGIS Programme 2003, with co-funding granted by selected EU Member States. | | | The EC, EP and other European counter-trafficking experts are involved in the implementation of the project activities, along with the national governmental and non-governmental counterparts including law enforcement and judicial authorities, international organisations and non-governmental organisations operating in various fields of counter-trafficking and working with victims of trafficking. |
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http://www.belgium.iom.int/AGIS2003
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| | EUROPEAN UNION - UNITED STATES FACTS AND FIGURES - STATISTICS |
| | The Delegation represents the European Commission in its dealings with the US government. | | | The European Commission is represented in the United States by a | | | The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with the European Union and its forerunners since 1953, when the first US Observers to the European Defence Community and the European Coal and Steel Community were nominated. |
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http://eurunion.org/profile/facts.htm
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| | Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A number of other European countries are negotiating for membership, and several more are expected to begin negotiations in the future. | | | European CIS States (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine), and not seldom the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Poland. | | | Typically, it includes the British Isles (the United Kingdom and Ireland), Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), Northern France, Germany, often all the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), sometimes Poland, and on occasion even Russia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
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| | Australia - Atlapedia Online |
| | In July 1987 Prime Minister Hawke was re-elected for his third term in office and in the same year a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the death rates of Aborigines in police custody. | | | In Feb. 1992 Bob Hawke resigned from his safe Labor seat of Wills forcing a by-election which resulted in the election of an independent, Phil Cleary. | | | In 1947 Prime Minister Ben Chifley unsuccessfully attempted to nationalize the country's banks and Australia became one of the original members of the UN. |
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http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/austral.htm
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| | European Countries Banning the Use of Fluoride 9/18/02Free twice-weekly natural health newsletter of top medical news on subjects including splenda, soy, sucralose, statins, insulin, aspartame, prevention and... | | | Responding to pressure from local and state governments, which bore the major burden of housing the asylum-seekers, parliament in May 1993 amended Germany's asylum law, making it easier for the authorities to exclude refugees from areas where there is no political oppression. | | | Since the Reformation Germany has been divided between a generally Protestant north and a Roman Catholic south and west. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/athens2004
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| | Foreign Governments/Europe |
| | Extensive descriptions of the country's history and governmental structure with briefer descriptions of the constitution and political representation | | | DumaLibrary lists Federation laws by subject andregional laws by region since 1994 | | | British Political Facts (Ref. Room JN 231.B97 1986) lists Votes of Confidence and dates on which major votes were held |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreur.html
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| | FAO - TWENTY-THIRD FAO REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR EUROPE |
| | These countries in which the portion of undernourished exceeds 10 percent and in which the labor force is agricultural-intensive account for 72 percent of all undernourished in the FAO European region (the three Caucasus countries, Bulgaria, Albania and Moldova). | | | Agriculture in these countries was formerly dominated by large collective and state farms, and the irrigation systems there were structured to serve these farms. | | | This mainly reflects the fact that the Russian Federation is the largest country in the region. |
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http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/MEETING/007/Y6451E.HTM
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| | V1003 Science and Society - World Population |
| | These countries were able to achieve replacement-level fertility (enough children born to replace death of parents) within 15-30 years - this is good news. | | | To appreciate the importance of this number, there are 26 new babies born every second, and 25 of these will have been born in developing countries. | | | Because most of the world's population is in developing countries and because they have positive population growth trends, the majority of future population growth will occur in developing nations. |
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http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/V1003/lectures/population
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| | Chile: Population |
| | The great majority of the population is mestizo, that is, mixed Europeans and American Indian descent. | | | Chile is one of the most urbanized countries in Latin America, with 86 percent of the population residing in urban areas. | | | Approximately 89.5 percent of the population is Catholic, and 8 percent Protestant. |
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http://www.ddg.com/LIS/aurelia/chipop.htm
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| | European Countries |
| | You and five classmates have been chosen to serve as a youth ambassador to one of the German speaking countries: Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein or Switzerland. | | | As a group, you will virtually travel to and explore multiple aspects of these countries and design a travel log, which you will share with the rest of the class. | | | Compare and contrast this system to the United States government. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- United States |
| | Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. | | | refugees (country of origin): the United States admitted 52,868 refugees during FY03/04 including: 13,331 (Somalia), 6,000 (Laos), 3,482 (Ukraine), 2,959 (Cuba), 1,787 (Iran); note - 27,239 refugees have been admitted as of 31 May 2005 | | | This page was last updated on 1 November, 2005 |
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| | Country Comparisons |
| | Independent Countries: table, scores on political and civil liberties | | | Population: for developing countries and territories, from OECD | | | GNP: for developing countries and territories, from OECD |
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http://sage.tamu.edu/topics/topic_resources/C/Country_Comparisons.html
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| | List of countries at opensource encyclopedia |
| | Palestine: "State of Palestine" was declared 1988 and recognized by a series of Arab and Muslim countries, see also: proposals for a Palestinian state and Palestinian territories. | | | This is an alphabetical list of the countries of the world. | | | The WikiProject Countries is an attempt to formulate a template for the country articles and expands articles with public domain sources (see Status of the porting of the CIA World Factbook, Status of the porting of U.S. Dept of State info). |
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http://springknow.com/List_of_countries.html
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| | The US and Foreign Aid Assistance - Global Issues |
| | The European Union is linking aid to fighting terrorism as well, with European ministers warning countries that their relations with the economically powerful bloc will suffer if they fail to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. | | | The United Nations Economic and Social Council, when noting that effectiveness of aid to poor countries requires a focus on economic infrastructure, also noted that ODA was hampering aid. | | | The United Nations notes that effectiveness of aid to poor countries requires a focus on economic infrastructure. |
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http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp
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| | All words on European Union member states |
| | EU member states and candidates There are currently 25 member states in the European Union. | | | Acceding countries (with year of submitting and accession): | | | European Commission maps of the EU are available: http://europa.eu.int/comm/mediatheque/multimedia/select/maps_en.html, |
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