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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe
Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.
In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the...
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Europe must work together to alleviate migatory pressure from Africa
Menkhoff, Lukas; Heidland, Tobias - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 164-166
Improved living conditions in Africa would lessen migratory pressure on Europe. The scope of Germany‘s "Marshall Plan with Africa" is too narrow; progress can only be made if Europe works together. A financial system that reaches as many people as possible could be one key to future...
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Der Euro, ein Segen für Afrika? Folgen der Anbindung der afrikanischen Franc-Zone an den Euro (The Euro, a Blessing for Africa? Consequences of the Peg of the African Franc CFA to...
Kohnert, Dirk - 2018
About five decades the Franc CFA - Zone in Western and Central Africa was praised as incarnation of economic and political stability in Africa, backed by France. But free convertibility and fixed parity, guaranteed by the French Treasury, mainly served the interest of a small elite of the...
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The Politicisation of Transatlantic Trade in Europe : Explaining Inconsistent Preferences Regarding Free Trade and the TTIP
Sojka, Aleksandra - 2020
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) generated an unprecedented public contestation across Europe. In this paper, we focus on the sources of such backlash in European public opinion. Previous studies of this issue have analysed opinions on free trade and the specific...
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The Process Towards the Centralisation of the European Financial Supervisory Architecture : The Case of the Banking Union
Montanaro, Elisabetta - 2018
The evolution of the EU supervisory architecture has demonstrated that it took the risk of a euro break-up to barely overcome the Member States and their supervisors' political resistances to centralisation. In the two-tier Europe that is emerging after the euro crisis, the integrity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930490
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African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions
Kohnert, Dirk - 2007
The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of 'good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285664
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Development of grapes and wine-making industry of Moldova on the basis of modern achievements of science and innovations
Gaina, Boris; Fedorchukova, Svetlana; Kobirman, Galina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 219-223). 2020
The wine-growing and wine-making complex of Moldova has come a long way: from metal-intensive technical equipment from … plantations in Moldova are 80% occupied by classic European varieties. The rest - are local indigenous varieties. All … winemaking in Moldova are based on the latest scientific and technological progress, developed and implemented in the Republic of …
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Republic of Moldova : technical assistance report : financial sector stability review
Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2022
The mission conducted a diagnostic review of the financial system and proposes a Technical Assistance Roadmap (TARM) to support the authorities' efforts to strengthen their detection of risks and vulnerabilities and to enhance capacity in financial sector oversight and development. Two modules...
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The East European financial crisis
Åslund, Anders - 2009
This paper discusses the global financial crisis of 2008/9 in thirteen countries, the ten new EU members that previously were communist and the three countries of Western former Soviet Union. Their problems were excessive current account deficits and private foreign debt, currency mismatches,...
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Crisis Region Western Africa - The cradle of African migration to Europe
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities, (pp. 37-55). 2007
In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331405