Toronto is the Western city most affected by Sars, with 140 cases reported so far. The World Health Organization recently warned travelers to stay away from the city, infuriating Toronto officials, who say Sars in Toronto can be traced to one carrier and is under control. The Centers for Disease...
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The EU farm commissioner, Franz Fischler, wants environmental rules included in the trade talks of the WTO. Fishcler believes that including these rules is a fair trade for the EU’s acceptance of reduced farm subsidies which the WTO hopes to enact. The lower farm subsidies will help developing...
Franz Fischler, European Union farm commissioner, has launched a stinging attack on World Trade Organisation members for opposing the EU's demands for environmental rules to be on the agenda of a planned new round of...
The prospect of freeing up world trade darkened at the first meeting devoted to agricultural liberalization held in Tokyo. A draft proposal submitted by Stuart Harbinson, the chair of WTO's agricultural negotiations, calling for deeper cuts in tariffs and subsidies on farming products was...
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America's unparalleled - if benevolent - power makes even its closest allies nervous. As a result, many have begun to question the legitimacy of the superpower's actions, particularly after it went into Iraq without UN approval. Foreign policy expert Robert Kagan says, "A perceived...
Concerns over transatlantic relations, American attitudes toward the United Nations Security Council, and the future of multilateralism stem from a single, overarching issue of the post-Cold War era: the issue of...
As private companies find themselves growing bigger and bigger, they also find that they now have to account for many extra functions – such as maintaining parking lots, managing cafeterias, etc. – that are not considered their "core" business. Outsourcing, according to this article, can...
What does your company actually do? It may seem like a silly question, but it is one that lies at the heart of many current discussions about outsourcing. Many experts suggest that the key to successful outsourcing lies...
En su comparecencia ante el pueblo estadounidense el 24 de mayo, el presidente George W. Bush admitió que “la vergonzosa conducta de unos pocos soldados estadounidenses” suponía la deshonra de Estados Unidos, aunque...
今天，全世界的物质、思想、机构以及人员的交流在成指数增长，这个现象只是一个长期历史趋势的一部分。在人类历史上，人们对更为美好事物的追求一直激励着全球范围内的人口流动、贸易往来和思想文化的交流。
1962年，“全球化” 第一次出现在我们的词汇中，而现在，这个词语已经从一个那时的专门术语变成了今天的一个口头禅。《经济学人》杂志 （The Economist） 已经把它称之为“21世纪被滥用词语之最”。在我们最近的记忆里，没有哪个词语能够像“全球化”一样对不同的人群有如此不同的含义...
长久以来，法国人都对全球化势力持批判态度，认为它扰乱本国经济，并对国家身份形成威胁。法国总统竞选期间，“去全球化”（法语：démondialisation）的呼声已渐渐成为焦点。无论是左派还是右派，法国人对国际融合的抗议正变得越来越激烈，同时，诸如可能出现的全球债务危机，年轻人的结构性失业，以及令人担忧的社会不平等加剧现象，也都是两派共同关心的话题。记者皮埃尔•阿斯基（Pierre Haski）指出，法国的国家政策可能即将发生变化，其中包括法国对欧盟（European Union）政务的主动疏离等，而事实上，2005年法国对《欧盟宪法条约》（European Constitutional...
巴黎：在整个法国为明年的总统大选预热之时，有一个词占据了各大报刊的头条——“去全球化”。法国并非是要阻挡国际大潮，与世界脱轨，但这场打着感情牌的“全球化”辩论却可能引发政策上的变动。不可否认，全球市场的紧密联系为法国公司还有法国的消费者们都带来了不少好处，可在法国，“全球化”从来就不是一个太受欢迎的概念。如今，2008年金融危机的负面效应仍未退去，新兴经济体如中国的影响力又在不断扩大，“全球化”的不受欢迎程度就更胜往常了。“去全球化”的呼声已开始从边缘政党逐渐蔓延至主流政党中。...