EU strategy for Single Market
The EU Single Market strategy is still the nucleus and the core economic driving force in European integration. It also remains the most effective means of responding to the current economic crisis. In mid-April 2011, the Commission adopted „strategic aims“ for the optimization of the Single Market, SM, which consisted of 12 main „projects“ providing stimulus for prospective growth in 2012. Twelve instruments of growth, competitiveness and social progress range from worker mobility to SME finance and consumer protection, via digital content, taxation and trans-European networks.
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20.05.2011 (9487)
International law and the EU legal order
Since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force at the end of 2009, the European Union has become a legal entity, i.e. a Community that could enter into international agreements on behalf of the EU-27 member states. This fact addressed an important issue of correlations between the EU law and international legal order. Several EU Commissioners perform international functions.
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20.05.2011 (10380)
Latvian-French joint venture EMMA – alliance of import and export
A sensational presentation of joint venture EMMA (Eurasian MultiModal Alliance), established by the international logistic company GEFCO and one of the leading and rapidly developing Latvian railway company SRR was held in the Embassy of France in Latvia. The main purpose of joint venture is to implement multimodal transportations from Europe to Central Asia. This alliance primarily is of interest to those, who provide container loading in both directions.
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19.04.2011 (9105)
Rewriting the history of North America
Stone tools were found in 15,500-year-old sediment, pushing back the oldest evidence of human occupation in North America.
Its time to rewrite the story of how Stone Age explorers from Asia crossed over into the Americas and colonised the continents.
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Its time to rewrite the story of how Stone Age explorers from Asia crossed over into the Americas and colonised the continents.
03.04.2011 (8689)
If you want to be happy, be happy!
We often hear the phrase: „think out loud“. To what do our acknowledged and subconscious thoughts lead us? To feeling guilt or annoyance? People do not even star wondering about it. We really need to learn how to notice small pleasant things and stop paying attention on the disappointing ones.
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11.03.2011 (9626)
By the year 2100 whole nations will be under water
The largest American coastal cities are in danger of being submerged. Furthermore, scientists believe that even in our century several nations will disappear from the maps. They will be, literally, swept away by a huge wave. Furthermore, the steady rise of the ocean level caused by the global warming poses a threat to St. Petersburg. Scientists’ predictions are almost 100 percent accurate.
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01.03.2011 (11421)