The European Union is a grouping of formally equal states, in reality however some subjects played and still play a special role in its development (or in the shaping of the forms of European integration preceding the European Union). From this point of view the position of France can be...

The Japan's economic specificity largely resulted from its insular isolation. However, the 20th century revealed important potentialities that ensue for a disciplined society from its going over to a policy of opening to the external world. Of course, traditions of the East still always play an...

The Lisbon provisions of the European Union form a team economic policy. The annual common priorities of economic policy are to become binding for all the member states both in the sense of goals and the ways of their achievement. The uniform policy is to serve among others the strengthening of...

The economic powers of the EU such as Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy for many centuries have been fighting against each other. Only the 20th century caused that all the four international subjects understood that they must cooperate and not only did they understood but also came to...

From the end of the seventies Chinese economic achievements attracted the whole world's unflagging attention. The sources of the long-lasting development success are many while the specific conditions of modern Chinese uniqueness should be searched even in many thousand of years of shaping a...

The process of unification of the twenty-five EU countries presents many internal difficulties that stem, in the first place, from large spans between thelevels of economic advancement of the individual member countries, but alsofrom certain cultural and civilization differences, as well as from...