Search results for "Union"

Understanding the meaning

2009

This article provides an overview of the nature of meaning, emphasizing the associative character of lexical meanings. The essay also comments on the meaning-related difficulties the translator must often overcome in order to reach a coherent interpretation due to the dubious quality of many original texts. The author illustrates this point through texts from the European Union. He also discusses some exceptional situations, especially regarding religious and traditional texts such as the Lord’s Prayer, whose formal power, including the magical ring of words, seems to outshine the alleged universal need for coherence and signification. Thus, any attempt to promote an alternative translation…

The introduction of the Euro and its effects on portfolio decisions

2010

Abstract Examining investment behavior related to the Euro introduction, we address the relevance of different investment determinants. With the advent of the currency union two potential sources of portfolio reallocation can be distinguished: First, the diminishment of exchange rate risk and transaction costs within the EMU. Second, the increase of correlation of EMU returns so that diversification benefits decreased. We test for structural breaks in the holdings of German investors and estimate a market model to account for the two effects. A significant decrease in national and an increase in EMU and rest-of-the-world investments can be observed. Comparing the observed holdings with benc…

Regional currencies and regional monetary zones in Latin America: what prospects?

2009

Reducing transaction costs and the need for international reserves is a primary objective to the establishment of regional payment agreements. Another objective, especially in the case of Latin America where the Ecuadorian promoters of the Bank of the South (Banco del Sur) and the New Regional Financial Architecture are planning the implementation of a regional clearing system, is to reduce member countries' dependence on the U. S. dollar as an international standard and reserve currency. To help improve the design of such agreements, this paper refers to the plan Keynes designed for the Bretton Woods conference. First, it observes that cases were made against this plan from which useful le…

The Effect of EMU on Tourism

2007

Abstract This paper estimates the effect of the euro on intra-EMU tourist flows by using a panel dataset of 20 OECD countries over the period 1995–2002. The results reveal that the euro has increased tourism, with an effect of around 6.5%. This is a noticeable impact given the early stage of the EMU analyzed. The robustness checks show that the evidence of a positive impact is quite widespread across EMU destinationcountries. 1. Introduction The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the euro on tourism among the 12members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. One of theexpected effects of the creation of the single European currency was the increase in trade of goods an…

Attitudes towards the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the European Union: The treaty partner heuristic and issue attention

2018

Why has the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partisanship met with strong public resistance among some Europeans and in some European Union member states, but not in others? This article argues that one important perspective to explain the pattern of support for TTIP is the role of heuristic opinion formation and issue attention. Analysing multiple waves of Eurobarometer data, I find that views of the two treaty partners, the US and the European Union, shape attitudes towards TTIP and that the largely post-materialist concerns over TTIP resonated specifically in those European countries whose citizens’ attention was less focused on economic issues. In showing how opinions towards concret…

The European network for care of children with paediatric rheumatic diseases : Care across borders

2019

Objectives. To provide an overview of the paediatric rheumatology (PR) services in Europe, describe current delivery of care and training, set standards for care, identify unmet needs and inform future specialist service provision. Methods. An online survey was developed and presented to national coordinating centres of the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) (country survey) and to individual PR centres (centre and disease surveys) as a part of the European Union (EU) Single Hub and Access point for paediatric Rheumatology in Europe project. The survey contained components covering the organization of PR care, composition of teams, education, health care and …

An empirical analysis of the relation between infrastructure and road accidents

2017

The concern for road safety in Europe is growing bigger. European Union by its means promote the aim of reducing the number of victims of traffic accidents by half in the period 2011-2020. In order to achieve this objective a lot of actions should be developed. One of our concern is the development of the infrastructure, mainly building motorways. Our research aims to study the relation between infrastructure – motorway versus highway and road accidents. Our findings show that is a great relationship between uses of motorways and reducing the number of accidents.

La trascrizione delle sentenze da cui risultano acquistati, modificati o estinti i diritti di proprietà, comunione, usufrutto o uso

2010

Tratta di esseri umani ed immigrazione illegale: un banco di prova per l’intervento dell’Unione Europea

2007

L'esistenza di una profonda e viva tensione tra esigenze repressive e istanze di tutela anche nel particolare settore normativo europeo della lotta alla tratta di persone e del contrasto alla immigrazione illegale, costituisca un'ulteriore testimonianza della urgenza e della necessità di avviare e incrementare la riflessione e l'analisi critica del diritto penale europeo e delle categorie e degli istituti prescelti nella attuazione delle politiche criminali dell'Unione

OS ECJ-TF 2/2017 on the ECJ Decision of 21 December 2016 in World Duty Free Group and Others (Joined Cases C-20/15 P and C-21/15 P), Concerning the R…

2017

This article deals with the decision taken by the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union in World Duty Free Group (formerly Autogrill Espana); Banco Santander and Santusa Holding (Joined Cases C-20/15 P and C-21/15 P), on 21 December 2016, following decisions of the General Court of the European Union of 7 November 2014 in Autogrill Espana and of 7 November 2014 in Banco Santander and Santusa and the Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet of 28 July 2016. The case concerned Spanish tax rules that allowed Spanish enterprises tax amortization of financial goodwill arising from the acquisition of shareholdings in foreign companies, but not from the acquisition of shareholdin…