India, the European Union and Global Trade Governance

2020 ◽

pp. 45-68

Author(s):

Zuzana Kittová

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

World Trade ◽

Global Economy ◽

Global Trade ◽

The European Union ◽

Trading Partners ◽

Balance Development ◽

Main Factors ◽

The Eu

This chapter critically evaluates the position of the EU within the global trade and developments of its position from a long-term perspective, and identifies the main factors behind these developments. With this aim, both the intra-EU trade and the extra-EU trade are analyzed, including the development of export and import values, along with the trade balance development and the structure of the intra-EU and extra-EU trade flows (main trading partners and main product groups). Furthermore, the development of the EU's share on the global trade is studied in comparison to the share of other main world trade players. The chapter examines the main factors that influence the position of the EU within the global trade. Finally, the prediction of the EU trade and of its position in the global economy are developed.

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Post-Brexit Global Trade Relations: The Death of TTIP?

German Law Journal ◽

10.1017/s2071832200021684 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (S1) ◽

pp. 39-44

Author(s):

Amanda Lyons-Archambault

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Bilateral Trade ◽

Market Access ◽

The United States ◽

Global Trade ◽

The European Union ◽

Trade Relations ◽

Economic Output ◽

Transatlantic Trade ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

Prior to Britain's popular referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union, parts of the public in Britain and other European states had already expressed a great range of emotions concerning on-going negotations between the European Union and the United States regarding the bi-lateral Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, more commonly referred to as “TTIP.” In February 2013, the European Commission optimistically projected that TTIP “would be the biggest bilateral trade-deal ever negotiated,” with the potential to “add 0.5% to the EU's annual economic output.” Most notably, TTIP seeks to streamline administrative rules and technical product standards in order to remove trade barriers, and aims to “achieve ambitious outcomes” across three broader areas—(a) market access, (b) regulatory issues and non-tariff barriers, and (c) rules, principles, and new modes of cooperation to address shared global trade challenges and opportunities.

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Intercomprehension – A Mere Dream or a New Way of Learning in Globalised World?

Politeja ◽

10.12797/politeja.16.2019.60.10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3(60)) ◽

pp. 155-166

Author(s):

Dominika Dzik

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Cultural Diversity ◽

Language Learning ◽

Global Trade ◽

Global Communication ◽

The European Union ◽

Unknown System

Nowadays, due to the increased mobility of people and a rapidly developing global trade, a knowledge of more than one foreign language is indispensable. However, mastering several languages throughout a lifetime seems to be an unattainable goal. One of the possible solutions to this problem is the use of English for global communication. But owing to the fact that in the European Union, considerable emphasis is placed on preserving linguistic and cultural diversity, there is a need to increase intercommunication between people speaking different languages. The present paper discusses the concept of intercomprehension, which is recently proven to be the most effective approach to language learning. Its main aim is to encourage students to rely on the similarities that exist between languages belonging to the same family in order to be able to deal with comprehension problems. This concept focuses primarily on mastering receptive skills, which are crucial in the process of decoding the messages expressed in an unknown system. The paper also reports on the advantages of intercomprehension and methodology that could be applied to the process of developing each individuals’ competence.

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Discrepancies in European Union Funding across member nations and sectors as of 2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence ◽

10.2478/picbe-2020-0067 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 708-716

Author(s):

Angel-Cristian Olteţeanu

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Data Collection ◽

International Relations ◽

Union Membership ◽

Political Power ◽

Current Evidence ◽

Global Trade ◽

The European Union ◽

Empiric Data ◽

Trade War

AbstractThis paper aims to explore the discrepancies in attracting European Union funding across member states and across different sectors of activity. Specifically, it aims to discover if there is a set of rule or model that can be attributed to the structure of European Union funding across nations and sectors to discern if some sectors are much more lucrative from the point of attracting European Union funding than others. In addition, beyond the purely economic and business considerations, the article wants to investigate if some ideologies, regimes, or parties are more successful in general in attracting European Union funding by sharing membership between European international parties or other reasons such as funding majoritarian populist parties to sustain European Union membership. The topic is of recent international economics significance in the context of Brexit and the buildup of Eurosceptic sentiments across the European Union as well as the international polarization between blocks of political power in the global trade war. This topic has been addressed partially before, mostly by journalists but represents a niche novelty in academic studies of International Relations. The methodology used will be both through argumentation of historical and current evidence as well as empiric data collection.

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