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This article discusses how a flexible labor market model can only lead to less permanent-job contracts, lower wages, and even lead to eventual unemployment. For example, the share of employees with temporary contracts is much higher in the EU than in Romania, however, it has been noted that the EU has higher unemployment rates than Romania... Further consequences of the implementation of a flexible labor market model are also evaluated. Link to "What is a Flexible Labour Market?": http://tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/a2-macro-flexible-labour-markets.html

This article talks about how foreign markets are threatened by the possible creation of a transaction tax for international trade among EU-countries and non-EU-countries, what would incentive the local commerce in europe and favor a protectionist policy in all Europe.

This article talks about the british perspective of the EU common market that had remained for many years and how its detereoration is affecting Britain. Also, the article criticizes the posible adoption of measures helping the EU.

In the face of the Euro crisis, the Economist compares and evaluates the merits/demerits of the two major trade blocs that the United Kingdom is engaged in - The European Union and The Commonwealth.

This Article highlights the problem of water scarcity in war-torn Iraq. The Scarcity of Water has caused the government to make it a priority in solving this problem along with UNESCO and the EU. Any story that involves Iraqi politicians cooperating to solve an issue must be a good sign weither they accomplish it or not. This Scarcity is a central and unifying issue and ironically may produce positive effects.

Nabil, I find this interesting since it associates scarcity with water. I recently read an article that talked about the implications of bottled water being treated as a luxury good in developed nations (branded water even!). And in your article water is being discussed as a scarce resource. Clearly, it would make more moral sense for less water to be sold as a luxury and more distributed to areas where it's scarce, but the profit motive steers the practice in another direction altogether!

Nabil, I also find this particularly interesting because I've always wondered about whether or not water availability will decrease as time progresses and the amount of human beings in the planet increases. I have always thought of water as being incredibly cheap if not completely free (go to a river and sip some water), and this makes it hard for me to think of water as being something that will be depleted any time soon.

The article discusses the stability and growth Pact that regulates EU member states' budgets, and its impact on fiscal policy on member nations. Another dimension of fiscal policy is its political implications, and the article articulates this dilemma. Particularly in the case of the EU, where one government's spending has an effect on all other countries as the currency is common, a government's fiscal policy adjustments have political impacts. thus, aside from the economic implications, governments must consider the political ramifications of their actions before implementing fiscal policy.

Even though water is not a scarce resource, it is becoming scarce in various regions. These regions tend to be highly populated areas such as countries in Europe including Spain and France. In contrast, areas such as iceland, who have everlasting water, do not have a problem of scarcity because of there low population.

Many people believe water scarcity is a problem mainly related to areas such as Africa, Arab Saudi...etc However this problem is affecting Europe as well. Regions such as Spain or France, during summer suffer from lots of fire. This produces lands to become inert in other words, the land becomes unprodutive. This is a problem, but at the same time, the lack of water (rain) is great. This produces rivers, lakes...etc to decrease the amount of water. Finbally all these problems are causing some countries to start having scarce water problems.

this article explains certain issues with regards to price controls of wine. wine cost control is important because subsidizing wine industry is an important topic in the Eu and in world, this article has intself many aspects and problems which could be faced due to wine control and here is also said why is it difficult to control it.

this article talks about that in order to keep Galileo alive, EU member-states had to agree to fund the entire project from the public purse.