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| | A lasting peace in Central Europe? |
 | | Civil society in Central Europe has re-emerged, up to a point, as a functioning, dynamic societal body capable of taking on the new challenges of the new dispensation, but it is still going through a process of deep transformation, in different ways and at a different pace in each country of Central Europe. | | | In dealing with the states of Central Europe and their problems, Western Europe should not, perhaps, forget that the totalitarian experience suffered by their neighbours was part of the background which made possible the achievement of their own security-community. | | | The problem with the anti-political character of Central European civil society is that the consolidation of democracy does largely depend on the ability of its defenders to contribute to the entrenchment of a particular relationship between state and society based on the principles of citizenship, rights, representation and the rule of law. |
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| | Chapter 2: Security Strategy for Europe and NATO |
| | Likewise, Central European efforts to establish cooperative relationships with Russia will be key to the enlargement of NATO in a way which expands the security and stability of all Europe. | | | While the vital interests of the United States and its European partners are not directly threatened by conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the partners understand the importance of the issues and the indirect threats to vital areas and interests. | | | The INF Treaty, which removed from Europe and eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, continues to be implemented in Europe and reduces nuclear tension on the continent. |
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| | United States of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States of Europe is a name occasionally given to one version of the possible future unification of Europe as a national and sovereign federation of states similar in formation to the United States of America. | | | The term "United States of Europe" was used by Winston Churchill in a famous speech which he delivered in 1946 at the University of Zürich. | | | He thinks a federal Europe should be created between those states that wish to have a federal Europe (as a form of enhanced cooperation). |
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| | Modernization and Central Planning |
| | The dramatic increase in information processing puts central planning at an even greater disadvantage when contrasted with market planning. | | | The failure of collectivism as a productive economic system in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was fully predictable from the economic calculation debate that occurred more than 50 years ago. | | | The effect of modernization of the economy on the ability to plan through central direction is one issue in the calculation debate that has received relatively little attention. |
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http://www.libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/economics/financialmarkets/modernization.html
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| | ECB: Job opportunities |
| | We at the European Central Bank are committed to performing all central bank tasks entrusted to us effectively and efficiently. | | | Navigation Path: Home > The European Central Bank > Job opportunities | | | The European Central Bank selects its staff without regard to age, ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation or physical disability. |
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| | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - SourceWatch |
| | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is "a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. | | | Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as nonprofit, private corporation to broadcast news and current affairs programs to Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain. | | | Both were funded principally by the U.S. Congress, through the Central Intelligence Agency, but received supplemental private donations as well. |
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| | USATODAY.com - European Central Bank cuts interest rates |
| | ECB President Wim Duisenberg signalled the credit easing earlier this week when he said the surging euro has caused inflationary pressures to retreat significantly while a recovery is expected to build only slowly toward year end. | | | Doubts arose about whether it would make the larger cut as bank officials stuck with their forecast that the European economy should gain speed later this year, and made reassuring remarks that the euro's rise only brings it back to historical average levels that shouldn't hurt the economy. | | | The ECB's main rate is now lower than any set by Germany's Bundesbank, the dominant monetary authority in Europe before it was replaced by the ECB. |
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| | The New York Times > Week in Review > 'Whole and Free' at Last: America Has Second Thoughts About a United Europe |
| | But it is also divided between formerly Communist states in Central Europe that are enthusiastic about Atlanticism, and other countries, led by France, where dislike of President Bush's America is intense. | | | Europe spoke in many tongues at the region's economic forum in Warsaw last month. | | | At the same time, these institutional differences complicate trans-Atlantic understanding because a sovereign America run by an administration for which power is the coin of the realm faces European states that have put their faith in international institutions like the European Union or the United Nations or an international criminal court. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/weekinreview/02cohe.html?ex=1398830400&en=4d41700b5065504d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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| | World Wide Business And Economy Resources |
| | Last updated:May 16, 2005 Database Central Europe deals with economic development and labour costs... | | | Database Central Europe - economy and business in Central and Eastern Europe | | | Global Biz Radio Iraq Economy Irish Business Japan Biz Daily Journal Europe Journal Japan Latino Banking Asia Business USA Business World Fair Trade World Finance Headlines News Archive Weather... |
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| | European Central Bank holds rates firm - International Business - MSNBC.com |
| | The decision by the bank's 18-member governing council, meeting in Frankfurt, was widely expected by economists. | | | The key refinancing rate, which sets the cost of central bank credit to commercial banks, has stood unaltered since June 2003. | | | One of the chief worries for the European economy is the euro's rise against the dollar, which hurts European exporters by making their goods more expensive in comparison to those of foreign competition. |
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| | Credit Union Central of British Columbia :: About Us :: Services |
| | Central is the first provincial central certified under the federal Co-operative Credit Associations Act, which established Canadian Co-operative Credit Society (C.C.C.S.), the national umbrella organization now known as Credit Union Central of Canada (CUCC). | | | Central completes negotiations for the purchase of 13 rural bank branches and their transfer to 11 local credit unions - extending the system's services to thousands of new members. | | | The credit union movement in BC is based on the co-operative, consumer models developed in Europe in the 19th century. |
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| | AEI - Short Publications |
| | When the United States battled Marxist insurgencies in Central America in the 1980s, the Europeans equivocated; when an EC commissioner warned, for instance, of the danger of "external intervention feared by all," he was understood to be referring as much to the United States as the Soviet Union. | | | No one believed that Europes single market required a common currency. | | | Within Europe, the agenda is to defend the culture of the welfare state. |
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| | EETimes.com - Euro bank notes to embed RFID chips by 2005 |
| | The ECB spokesman said his organization has contacted various central banks worldwide — not just in Europe — to discuss added security measures for the currency. | | | The EUR 200 and EUR 500 bank notes in particular — equivalent to roughly $200 and $500 in value — are expected to be popular in the "informal" economy. | | | It is unclear whether the ECB will incorporate RFID chips into all euro bank notes or just on the larger bills. |
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| | ECB: Second High-Level Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American Central Banks held in Rio de Janeiro on 26 November 2004 |
| | Governors thanked the Banco Central do Brasil for the outstanding organisation of today´s Seminar in Rio de Janeiro and underscored the value of this unique form of policy dialogue between Latin America and Europe, which they will continue in the future. | | | The aim of the Seminar was to continue the policy dialogue between central bankers of Europe and Latin America that was initiated at the first Seminar in Madrid in 2002. | | | It was noted that the effectiveness of central bank policy in transmitting monetary impulses depends, among other factors, on its credibility, the financial structures of an economy and the degree of financial development. |
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| | Europe Business Daily |
| | CEEBIC - Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center | | | WIM Duisenberg, the father of the euro and former head of the European Central Bank, was found dead in his swimming pool in the south of France yes... | | | Business Europe - Free Small Business Information and Advice |
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| | European Central Bank |
| | The European Central Bank is an equal opportunities employer. | | | The ECB values are competence, effectiveness and efficiency, integrity, team spirit, transparency and accountability and working for Europe | | | Candidates bear full responsibility for the timely submission of their application and the ECB cannot be held liable for any delays occurring outside of its own systems. |
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| | The Geography of Multi-Speed Europe |
| | For the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), this has come as a response to the challenge of integrating possibly twenty-five countries with very different income levels without halting altogether the deepening of integration. | | | Our objective is to use the tools of the “new geography”, in order to describe the possible impact of a multi-speed approach to integration on the location choice of industries and therefore on the long term geography of economic activities in Europe. | | | Economic integration in Europe has de facto become a multi-speed process. |
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| | Europe: Economy and Transportation |
| | The transition to market-oriented economies in Central and Eastern Europe: lessons for private enterprise development. | | | Europe is highly industrialized; the largest industrial areas are found in W central Europe, England, N Italy, Ukraine, and European Russia. | | | The transportation system in Europe is highly developed; interconnecting rivers and canals provide excellent inland water transportation in central and W Europe. |
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| | Boston.com / Business / Europe's economy said to be on mend |
| | FRANKFURT-- European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said yesterday that Europe's economy was clearly headed into recovery -- and expressed little concern about the surging euro currency. | | | Trichet credited a stronger global economy that was increasing demand for European goods, saying that the expansion "reflects the strong momentum of the world economy, which we assume will continue next year." | | | The economy in the 12 countries using the euro currency grew 0.4 percent in the third quarter, breaking out of months of stagnation. |
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| | Lamfalussy Research Fellowship: EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK (ECB) |
| | CALL FOR PROJECTS EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK (ECB) Lamfalussy Research Fellowship The European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking applications from promising young researchers for five Lamfalussy Fellowships in 2006. | | | He was a member of the Delors Committee for the Study of European Economic and Monetary Union, the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements and the first President of the European Monetary Institute (in charge of preparing the third stage of EMU). | | | He was also an Executive Director of Banque Bruxelles Lambert and he chaired the "Committee of Wise Men on the Regulation of European Securities Markets", whose reform proposals were adopted by the EU Council in Stockholm in March 2001. |
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| | Tocqueville: Book I Chapter 15 |
| | Democratic republics liable to perish from a misuse of their power, and not from impotence--The governments of the American republics are more centralized and more energetic than those of the monarchies of Europe--Dangers resulting from this--Opinions of Madison and Jefferson upon this point. | | | In any constitutional state in Europe every sort of religious and political theory may be freely preached and disseminated; for there is no country in Europe so subdued by any single authority as not to protect the man who raises his voice in the cause of truth from the consequences of his hardihood. | | | Almost all the American constitutions have been amended within thirty years; there is therefore not one American state which has not modified the principles of its legislation in that time. |
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| | Public Administration and Urban Studies News - Georgia State University Library |
| | The best in Central Europe - Estonia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia - have gone beyond e-government window dressing and compare favourably with the rest of the EU, articularly in instituting online delivery of public services. | | | The best in Central Europe - Estonia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia - have gone beyond e-government window dressing and compare favourably with the rest of the EU, particularly in instituting online delivery of public services. | | | The governments of most new EU members are moving vigorously to shift administrative operations to online platforms. |
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| | GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Europe - Greece - Economy |
| | U.S. companies are involved in Greece's ongoing privatization efforts; further deregulation of Greece's energy sector and the country's central location as a transportation hub for Europe may offer additional opportunities in electricity, gas, refinery, and related sectors. | | | The new administration has pledged to reduce the government debt to 2.8 percent of GDP in 2005 and to tighten fiscal finances. | | | The government succeeded in 2000 in reducing budget deficits and inflation, allowing Greece to join the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on January 1, 2001. |
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| | central bank - definition of central bank by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | European Central Bank - the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency; "The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve" | | | central bank - a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government | | | Bank of England - the central bank of England and Wales |
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| | Forbes.com: DIARY - European Central Bank (ECB) events to August 5~ |
| | Scheduled speakers are Swedish central bank President Lars Heikensten (1245 GMT) and Estonian central bank President Vahur Kraft (1400 GMT), both in a session on the role of the financial sector in an enlarged EU. | | | TUESDAY, APRIL 27 BRUSSELS- (TENTATIVE) ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet to present the ECB's annual report to European Parliaments's economic and monetary affairs committee- 0830 GMT. | | | THURSDAY, APRIL 29 BOCHUM- ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet attends Economic Forum on "Europe grows up - monetary union, eastern enlargement and the future for the european finance markets" hosted by "Die Zeit". |
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| | The United States, Europe and the Balkans |
| | The burden sharing debate is real, and policymakers in Europe and the United States ignore that it only at their peril. | | | The United States has spent vast resources, effort, and time in the region-especially in the last half decade, when the U.S. military has become a central element of American engagement. | | | The American debate over U.S. engagement in the Balkans is today, as it has been since its inception, conducted primarily in terms of the relative burdens the United States and Europe should carry in attempting to improve conditions in the region. |
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| | o C Consulate |
| | The CCF provides a venue for emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and the of the former Soviet Union to discuss international export controls and to help coordinate technical assistance efforts. | | | Central American Common Market A first effort to establish a Central American Common Market, CACM (Spanish: Mercado Común Centroamericano, MCCA) was attempted in 1960 under the auspeices of the Organiztion of Central American States (OCAS). | | | A means of determining fair or foreign market value when sales of such or similar merchandise do not exist or, for various reasons, cannot be used for comparison purposes. |
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| | Supervision - European Union / European Central Bank |
| | One of its institutions is the European Central Bank (ECB), the central bank for Europe´s single currency, the euro. | | | Its Member States have set up common institutions to which they delegate some of their sovereignty so that decisions on specific matters of joint interest can be made democratically at European level. | | | The European Union (EU) is a family of democratic European countries, committed to working together for peace and prosperity. |
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