The European Union is a Economic and political union, formed by 27 member states.this region has a 30% of the world’s GDP, has 500 million citizens (7.3% of the world total)and has 23 official languages. German is the most spoken native language, followed by English, Italian and French.
European Union Background:
1950 the European Coal and steel community made a union between European countries economically and politically. The main founders were Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1970 EU adopted its first plan for a single currency to maintain monetary stability. Euro is the official currency but not for all of them. 1973, Denmark, Ireland and the UK joined. 1977, Greece joined. 1986, spain and portugal. 1992, signed the treaty of Mastrich.1993, free movement of people, goods, services and money among the countries.1995, Finland,Austria and Sweden joined. 2004, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia joined.
watch the following video that summarizes the UE 50 year history in 5minutes, pretty interesting.
OBJECTIVES
Development of a common market: Free movement of people, goods, services and capital.
Customs union between its member states: application of a common external tariff on all goods entering the market
arguments in favor:
1.Giving participation to workers in important decision making, leads to improve innovation and creativity.
2.Co-determinism makes workers and owners motivate themselfs to work and benefit the company, such as promoting integration in the company.
3.The quality of decisions,decisions in the company can be made by owners and workers at the same time. according to this both will be benefited.
arguments against:
1.Co-determinism damages the interests of shareholders, because their main interest is profit, but the main interests of workers are the benefits they receive for their family and society.
2.The belief that the German industry is sufficiently strong and stable and does not need to apply this concept in order to be more competitive.
3.It is considered as a bureaucratic monster, because nowadays it is considered as an old fashion and not competitive principle for modern companies, due to it was created many years ago, which makes it is seen as a routine.
Bibliography:
Piette, Jean-Jacques. 2004. “Understanding management German style”. Les Amis de L’ecole de Paris.
Huijgh, Ellen. 2007. Diversity United? Towards a European cultural industries policy. Social Policy, 28(3): 209 – 24
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2112746,00.html
http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/turkeyeu.htm
http://www.merit.unu.edu/archive/docs/hl/200610_200610_akcomak.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/23/eu-roma-racism-discrimination
OBJECTIVES
Development of a common market: Free movement of people, goods, services and capital.
Customs union between its member states: application of a common external tariff on all goods entering the market
arguments in favor:
1.Giving participation to workers in important decision making, leads to improve innovation and creativity.
2.Co-determinism makes workers and owners motivate themselfs to work and benefit the company, such as promoting integration in the company.
3.The quality of decisions,decisions in the company can be made by owners and workers at the same time. according to this both will be benefited.
arguments against:
1.Co-determinism damages the interests of shareholders, because their main interest is profit, but the main interests of workers are the benefits they receive for their family and society.
2.The belief that the German industry is sufficiently strong and stable and does not need to apply this concept in order to be more competitive.
3.It is considered as a bureaucratic monster, because nowadays it is considered as an old fashion and not competitive principle for modern companies, due to it was created many years ago, which makes it is seen as a routine.
Bibliography:
Piette, Jean-Jacques. 2004. “Understanding management German style”. Les Amis de L’ecole de Paris.
Huijgh, Ellen. 2007. Diversity United? Towards a European cultural industries policy. Social Policy, 28(3): 209 – 24
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2112746,00.html
http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/turkeyeu.htm
http://www.merit.unu.edu/archive/docs/hl/200610_200610_akcomak.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/23/eu-roma-racism-discrimination
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