This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

The crisis is a system that have its self-destructing cycles. The event supplies itself from its environment. It generates perturbations at all levels. In our days, the crisis (of the economy, of culture, of ideology, of values, of conscience, of organizations) becomes a daily state, a reference...

In order for NATO to remain credible and efficient, its new Strategic Concept must address and find solutions to fundamental issues which are likely to define the Alliance’s missions over the next decade, of which the most important ones concern member states’ ability to ensure and reinforce...