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B) The prevention and management of aging people Why does Europe have an aging population? The aging population of Europe is due to the decrease of fertility, the decrease of mortality rate, and the higher life expectancy of Europeans. Indeed at the beginning of the 60th the feminization of the work market delayed the age for having a child, and so it directly limited the number of children per women. Also the values and the culture based of family changed in Europe. The increase of…

1. Is Europe an optimum currency area? While Europe all together is not an optimum currency area, the European Union is. This is because only the countries that make up the European Union share a single currency, the euro. This leads to greater economic benefit in the countries that make up the union than there is in one remaining an independent country. However, there are European countries that are not members of the European Union, such as Great Britain or Russia. These countries are not…

AUSTERITY IN IRELAND COMPARED WITH OTHER ECONOMIES Unfortunately the Greek economy was a house of cards held together by government spending. The Greek government has kept borrowing more and more money even after the current crisis started. The past few years have proved that the Greek Government does not have the right people for managing its economy. The Greek people are also not helping much, as they do not seem to have understood the seriousness of their economic situation. Opposing the…

Introduction The European Union – EU consists of 28 countries that participates in the world economy as one economic unit and partly operates under one official currency, the euro. England is one of the biggest members; however, instead of adopting the euro, they still keep pound sterling as their official currency. One of the reasons for keeping the pound can certainly be found in British pound attack in 1992 and Quantum fund is blame as the culprit. This paper contains 4 chapters which are…

Impact of Brexit on Britain and Eurozone European Union (EU) members are part of the custom’s treaty that ensures that there no tariffs on the movement of people or goods within member states. Nonetheless, there is a common tariff applied on goods and services entering EU. The union does not allow any member to function under independent trade policy, for instance forming trade agreement with other countries outside EU without informing the union (Miller 22). The multilateral or the bilateral…

III. EUROZONE RETAIL PMI • Sales fall modestly for third consecutive month in January. • Downturns recorded in each of the ‘big-three’ Eurozone economies. • Job creation sustained despite recent weakness in sales. The headline Markit Eurozone Retail PMI – which tracks month-on-month changes in like-for-like retail sales in the bloc’s biggest three economies combined – remained below the neutral 50.0 mark in January, registering 48.9. This indicated a modest rate of decline that was…

Greece and the Eurozone Crisis The current crisis in Europe was caused by many factors, one of the biggest being the crisis in the United States in 2008 transmitting over into other parts of the world, such as Europe. Perhaps the single most influential factor to start this crisis began when Europe tried to become more like the United States in its way of being unified with a single currency. In Europe, each country’s economy is very different. The price of Euros appropriate for each country…

Introduction European sovereign debt crisis triggered by the financial crisis of America swept across whole European countries. Why the Eurozone is too weak to resist the crisis? Are there any problems of the Eurozone? The sovereign debt crisis has spilled over to the banks, which increases the credit risk exposure of the banks. It is necessary for us to understand how the crisis impacts banks’ exposure and what are the reactions of the banks with respect to their capital provision. Finally,…

The social and economic consequences of austerity measures imposed by troika on Greece have been devastating. Since 2010, Greece’s GDP has fallen by 25 percent and unemployment rate is 26 percent. The youth unemployment rates are at an alarmingly high level. Currently, over 56 percent of young people in Greece are without a job and there are more than 450,000 families with no working members. After five years of fiscal adjustment and economic hardship under the austerity program, Greece’s major…

European Union and the Schengen Area. Nonetheless, the most notable British exemption from the rest of European Union is its absence from the Eurozone. Of the EU nation’s currently not in the Eurozone only Denmark and the United Kingdom have the liberty to deny joining the Eurozone. The other nations in the EU without the Euro are not a part of the Eurozone because they do not meet the criteria for entry at the present time. British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher stood vehemently…