Institutions of the European Union

for a stronger military and borders. The interview, focuses on the topics of immigration or refugees and the European Union (EU) to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) finally domestic and international relations importance of trade and military. These different topics can be analyzed through international relation theories of realism,…

With home to more than one thousand million individuals, India is world's biggest democracy. India is additionally one of the establishing members of the UN. It signed the declaration by the United Nations at Washington on 1 January 1942 and furthermore, took an interest in the notable UN convention in San Francisco from 25 April to 26 June 1945. India has reliably upheld the purposes and standards of the UN and has made huge commitments to authorizing the objectives of the UN charter,…

Introduction When considering Ethnic conflict, it is usually accompanied by the idea of human rights violations, violence, and political instability. Throughout history, one can see multiple examples of this, some prominent even in the present day. In the world today, conflict between ethnic groups has proliferated, within nations, rather than between states. Belgium is a nation with a rich and interesting history, full of culture, and its own internal ethnic tensions; although it…

currently 8 different kinds of Euribor rates where they are selected to ensure that the diversity of the euro money market is varied accordingly and reliable. 1b) EURIBOR is based on average interest rates established by a panel of around 40 European banks (panel banks) that lend and borrow from each other. Some of these banks include HSBC France, Deutsche bank,…

The world is constantly developing, however many countries still face turmoil. There is a disparity amongst countries where some are significantly more developed than others. The most sensible idea is to live in those countries that have a higher chance of success, although many issues arise once a single nation becomes crowded with immigrants all sharing the same goal. The answer people have found to mitigate the overflow of migrants is to use quotas. A quota in this case is a certain limit of…

Improving a country’s standard of living aims to increase the degree of wealth and comfort that a group of people in a certain geographic area experience by promoting economic growth. The standard of living takes into account many factors, some being; income gap, unemployment rate, poverty level, inflation rate, and gross domestic product. Gross domestic product or GDP is the sum of a country’s consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports. The most common measurement of a…

The European Union has always been recognized as suffering from democratic deficit and the standard of the European Union has been a controversial issue since the early 1990s. Therefore, Lisbon Treaty was lately implemented in order to improve the Union’s democracy. However, it is arguable that whether the Lisbon Treaty is effective enough to tackle the problem of democracy, which will be discussed in the following. In this essay, I will first define what is ‘democratic deficit’ and show the…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…

It has often been said that the European Union suffers from a democratic deficit. This notion derives from the fact that prior to 1979, none of the EU institutions had directly elected members and therefore there was no democratic accountability to the citizens of the EU. It is also regularly asserted that the legislative powers at EU level are confined and dominated by executive actors, namely the Council of Ministers and the ‘unelected bureaucrats’ in the European Commission. However, this…

Ziya Mert Karakaş The EU is a complex supranational entity. It is not a state or a federation and it is difficult to classify. So are the questions whether the Union has attributes of each, and if yes, what are them. The democracy, in the modern times, is a fundamental part of the state functioning and is necessary for the public to involve themselves in the political decision-making. As EU is not a state nor has…