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Jacques Delors
Jacques Delors (Jacques Lucien Jean Delors) 1925-, French economist and politician and European statesman, president (1985-95) of the European Commission. Beginning in the 1940s, he held a series of posts in French banking and state planning, eventually becoming (1969) an adviser to Gaullist... Read more |
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European Free Trade Association
European Free Trade Association (EFTA), customs union and trading bloc; its current members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. EFTA was established in 1960 by Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. Iceland joined in 1970, Finland in 1986, and... Read more |
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European Union
European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community (EC), an economic and political confederation of European nations, and other organizations (with the same member nations) that are responsible for a... Read more |
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European Economic Community
European Economic Community (EEC), organization established (1958) by a treaty signed in 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany (now Germany); it was known informally as the Common Market. The EEC was the most significant of the three treaty organizations that... Read more |
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European Commission
European Commission branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community (EC) were officially merged;... Read more |
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Maxwell Communication Corp. plc
Maxwell Communication Corporation plc Maxwell House8-10 New Fetter LaneLondon EC4A 1DUUnited Kingdom(071) 353-0360 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1964 as British Printing CorporationEmployees: 14,360Sales: |
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Shaoguan
Shaoguan, Guangdong/China Hengzhou, Shaozhou An important communications and trading centre, the city was renamed Shaozhou from sháo ‘harmonious’, referring to the type of music played at the time, and zhōu. Guān is short for shuìguān ‘customs... Read more |
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Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson (James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx), 1916-95, British statesman. A graduate of Oxford, he became an economics lecturer there (1937) and a fellow of University College (1938). Wilson entered Parliament (1945) as a Labour member, and as president of the Board of Trade... Read more |
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Reuters Group PLC
Reuters Holdings PLC 85 Fleet StreetLondon EC4P 4AJEngland+ 441712501122Fax: +441715105896Web site: http://www.reuters.com Public Company Incorporated: 1865 as Router |
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British Telecommunications plc
British Telecommunications plc BT Centre81 Newgate StreetLondon EC1A 7AJEngland(0171) 356 5000Fax: (0171) 356 5520 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1984Employees: 137,500Sales: Read more |
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European Union
European Union (EU) Organization...institutions of the European Community (EC), such as the European Commission...the role and scope of the EC according to the criteria...Committee (which advises on draft EC ... |
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European Community
European Community (EC) Historical organization of Western European countries...EURATOM merged to form the European Community (EC). The United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark joined...1993, the ... |
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EUROPEAN UNION
EUROPEAN UNION, short form EU. An association...Sweden. In 1993, the EU subsumed the European Community (EC), previously known as the European...and Swedish. All eleven are used in EC meetings with simultaneous translation... |
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European Commission
European Commission Institution responsible for...European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament (EP). It was established (1967) with the creation of the European Community (EC). There are 20 commissioners, two... |
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Western European Union
Western European Union (WEU). This international...Assembly to ratify the European Defence Community plan (EDC). The collapse...remained the primary West European security organization...within NATO and to promote EC foreign policy ... |
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European Economic Area
European Economic Area (EEA) Economic union...1992) between the 12 members of the European Community (EC) and six of the seven members (Switzerland rejected the notion) of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The... |
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European Monetary System
European Monetary System (EMS) System set up in 1979 to...monetary stability among the then nine members of the European Community (EC). The EMS had three main components: the European Currency Unit (ECU), a monetary unit weighted... |
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European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice (officially Court of Justice of the European Communities) Court responsible for the interpretation and implementation of European Community laws. The court will also rule in cases where member states are alleged to ... |
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Europe
...the Alpine chain is the great European plain, which extends from the...communism; the Warsaw Pact was its e European counterpart. Several economic organizations, in particular the European Community (EC), worked towards closer intra... |
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dairy industry
...situation until Ireland joined the European Economic Community (see european union) in 1973. For a period...share to the growth of the European butter mountain. The output...protective shell provided by the EC, the dairy industry was far... |
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EC
EC • abbr. ∎ European Commission. ∎ European Community. ∎ executive committee. |
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European integration
European integration The...Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was established...into the European Community (EC).The EEC excluded...in France, the EC was expanded by...attitude in the European Council in ... |
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European Union
European Union (EU) An organization...replaced the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY in 1993. The EU took over all the EC institutions, such as...extended the scope of the EC according to the terms...political links under the EC. These ... |
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European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice (ECJ) Created...the EEC and its successors, the European Community and the EU. In this role, it has...challenges in the supreme courts of EC member states to the principle that EC law was supreme over national... |
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European Economic Community
European Economic Community (EEC or Common Market) An economic organization of European states set up by the Treaties...was the largest item in the EC budget. The EEC merged with...form the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ... |
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Single European Act
Single European Act (1986) The first substantial...response to the extension of European Community concerns, decision-making...no longer required. The European Council was formally recognized...settle anywhere within the EC and enjoy all the ... |
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European Parliament
European Parliament An elected...parliaments of the EC member states, but...Treaty, which gave the European Parliament the right...voter participation in European elections has declined...held in an enlarged community of 25 member states... |
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European Community
European Community (EC) An organization of Western European countries, which came into being in 1967 through the merger of the European Economic Community (Common Market or EEC), European... |
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Western European Union
Western European Union (WEU). This international...Assembly to ratify the European Defence Community plan (EDC). The pledge...remained the primary West European security organization...within NATO and to promote EC foreign policy ... |
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EU
EU (European Union) Created by the Treaty of Maastricht, it was made up of three pillars: (1) the European Community (EC), whose decisions were made by the European Commission, the European Council, and the ... |
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Europe struggles to deliver the First Railway Package: the European...
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EUROPEAN countries are failing...networks, according to the EC, which has started infringement...FRP). Adopted by the EC in 2000, the FRP is intended...European countries, but the EC was concerned that a ... |
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France, in Close Vote, Backs European Pact; EC Leaders See Monetary Calm
...narrowly approved the European union treaty today, evoking...disillusionment with the European Community's ambitious blueprint...global recession among the EC's 12 member states...meanwhile, told the EC finance ministers at a...called for an ... |
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TRANS-EUROPEAN NETWORKS: EC BOND UNNECESSARY, SAYS PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
...Summary: The Declaration of European Interest, which is meant to symbolise the European Community's commitment to certain...published in February, the EC Court of Auditors did not...and social cohesion in the EC is first and foremost a... |
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION: EC ASSISTANCE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR TO THE FORMER SOVIET...
...the June 25 Council of EC Energy Ministers in Luxembourg by European Energy Commissioner...carried out under the EC's PHARE, TACIS and...Commission in April on Community efforts to improve nuclear...sections, it sets out the EC's financial ... |
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-EUROPEAN COMMISSION: EC clears most of suspended budget lines and seeks...
...PRESSWIRE-15 July 1998-EUROPEAN COMMISSION: EC clears most of suspended...the Court ruling, the European Commission is now calling...administration. "The European Union needs a long...among the recipients of Community funds. The Commission... |
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Nicodrops Announces European Community 'EC' Approval; Assures Global Presence...
...formally received approval from the European Community (EC) to allow the company to distribute...We are quite pleased to add the EC market to the retail distribution...addition of a Mega-Market like the EC" continued Mr. Calpito "brings... |
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EUROPEAN GROWTH INITIATIVE: EC FINANCE MINISTERS SEEK TO RESTORE BUSINESS...
Summary: Community Finance Ministers, meeting...instruments introduced in the European growth initiative (EGI...their joint declaration, EC Finance Ministers spoke...action with that of the EC's main trading partners...by representatives of EC ... |
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Prospering in the European Community: three EC initiative to ensure it....
Prospering in the European Community: three EC initiatives to ensure it In response...the internal restructuring of their EC operations and the external restructuring...of corporate restructuring in the EC is announced in the business press... |
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France one, Holland nil. (by convening The Western European Union during EC...
EUROPEAN community summits are not what they used...aid for the Kurds that the EC summit had just agreed on...from the European Council, as EC summits are known. In the...Community will merge. Many EC members ... |
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European Commission INSPIRE@EC contract.
...The Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) awarded the INSPIRE@EC contract to a consortium using...application that fulfils the EC's user requirements, particularly...implementation of the INSPIRE@EC geoportal and its ... |
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