Flash and Facts

5 September 2014

Education is the Best Investment

It is undoubted that investment in education is the most effective way to increase economic growth throughout the world. The OECD stresses the importance for European countries to invest more and ...

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19 August 2014

Tourism generates Massive Revenues

International tourism receipts reached USD 1159 billion worldwide in 2013, up from USD 1078 billion in 2012. These figures provided by the United Nations Tourism Organization (UNWTO) underline the ...

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19 August 2014

Managing the Impacts of Tourism

It is today crucial to enhance the capabilities of countries around the world to minimize the adverse impacts of tourism while expanding its positive role in development. Obviously, tourism ...

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29 July 2014

Serious Challenges in Europe

There is a real concern across Europe concerning a deep demographic crisis. And the situation should be the most difficult in countries facing a continuous drop in fertility such as Greece, Spain or ...

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29 July 2014

Black Economy is Booming

Undeclared work has become a widespread phenomenon in the European Union.Today, the main reason given is the excessive taxation practised by numerous Member states. But the development of ...

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9 July 2014

Health Authorities are on the Alert

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) announced recently that thousands of illicit online pharmacies, to be more precise 10.600 websites, were shut down in the largest-ever ...

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9 July 2014

Alert is also focused on Energy

The latest International Energy Agency report (IEA) sets the cat among the pigeons by estimating that future investments in energy would not be sufficient to satisfy global demand.The IEA says that ...

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19 June 2014

Fears and Received Ideas

A demographic apocalypse? It seems that previous studies were based on wrong predictions. It is a fact that the number of people on the planet has increased dramatically, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to ...

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19 June 2014

Soft Power

"Attract and co-opt rather than coerce", this is the key of soft power. This concept developed by Joseph Nye at Harvard University rests on three resources: Culture, Political Values and ...

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23 May 2014

How to Feed the Planet

The Food and Agriculture Organization entitled its report " How to feed the World in 2050 ". The FAO considers that by 2050 the global population will be 9.1 billion people, about one ...

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