EU-IMF assistance to euro area countries: an early assessment. Bruegel Blueprint [No. 19?], 16 May 2013

Three years ago, in May 2010, Greece became the first euro-area country to receive financial assistance from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in exchange for implementing an economic programme designed by the Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF. Within a year, Ireland and Portugal went down the same path. This study provides an early evaluation of these assistance programmes implemented by the Troika in these three countries. The study assesses the economic impact of the programmes and the consequences of their particular institutional set-up.

Juncker raises high expectations with ambitious agenda. CEPS Commentary, 16 July 2014

Based on his speech to the European Parliament on July 15th, following his election as President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker has clearly opted for ‘more Union’ during his five-year term, offering up an ambitious agenda that raises a host of expectations. In this CEPS Commentary, Karel Lannoo outlines the most salient items on Juncker’s agenda, focusing on the most laudable and those that will pose the greatest challenges.

Making the most of Energy Union. CEPS Commentary, 16 December 2014

By elevating “Energy Union” to the status of a Commission mission statement, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker succeeded in forging a new EU consensus on energy and climate change at the October European Council meeting. In a move that was made possible by linking the internal energy market and climate change agendas to security of supply, solidarity and infrastructure, the initiative notably meets the interests of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the peripheral member states. This commentary by a team of energy specialists at CEPS applauds this new development, but cautions that the European Commission will soon need to give it real meaning and substance before Energy Union can become reality. With this objective in mind, the authors outline six priorities to which Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič should give immediate attention.

Essai sur cette question : quels sont les meilieurs moyens de prévenir, avec les seules ressources de la France, la disette des blés et les trop grandes variations dans leurs prix? Mémoire qui a obtenu une médaille d'or de la Société d'agriculture, commerce, sciences et arts du département de la Marne, dans la sénce du 16 aoØut 1819 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal du siége et blocus de Malte depuis le 16 fructidor an 6, époque de la révolte des Maltais, jusqu'au 22 fructidor an 8, jour de lévacuation de cette place par la garnison franca?ise /

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Comptes des Constitutions et de la doctrine de la Societé, se disant de Jesus : rendus au Parlament de Normandie, toutes les Chambres assemblées, les 16, 18, 19, 21, 22 & 23 Janvier 1762 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Traité des maladies des articulations : accompagné d'un Atlas de 16 planches /

Contiene: T. 1 (XLX, 582 p.), T. 2 (647 p.)

Dissertatio physico-medica De aeris natura et influxu in generationem morborum cui accessit corollarium de aere, aquis et locis forojuliensibus. Quam praeside r.r.d.d. Paulo-Josepho Barthez ... tuebatur Joannes-Franciscus Peroncely ... die 16. mensis Februarii anni 1767 ... pro prima Apollinari laurea consequenda ...

Mode of access: Internet.

16-year-old professional jockey Karen Rogers at Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Modernist 16-19 Business Education in a Postmodern world - critical evidence of business practice and business education in the cultural industries

This article examines the continued relevance of the 16-19 business education curriculum in the UK, stimulated by doubts expressed by Thomas (1996), over its continued relevance. We express a concern that business education needs, but is struggling, to respond to significant societal shifts in consumption and production strategies that do not sit easily within traditional theories of business practice currently underpinning 16-19 business education. We examine firstly, the extent to which a formal body of knowledge couched in a modernist discourse of facts and objectivity can cope with the changing and fluid developments in much current business practice that is rooted in the cultural and symbolic. Secondly, the extent to which both academic and vocational competences provide the means for students to develop a framework of critical understanding that can respond effectively to rapidly changing business environments.Findings are based on research conducted jointly by the University of Manchester and the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University. The growth of dynamism of the cultural industries sector - largely micro-businesses and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) -encapsulates forms of business knowledge, business language and business practice which may not immediately fit with the models provided within business education. Results suggest increasingly reflexive forms of consumption being met by similarly reflexive and flexible modes of production.Our evidence suggests that whilst modernist business knowledge is often the foundation for many 16-19 business education courses, these programmes of study/training do not usually reflect the activities of SME and micro-business practitioners in the cultural industries. Given the importance of cultural industries in terms of the production strategies required to meet increasingly reflexive markets, it is suggested that there may be a need to incorporate a postmodern approach to the current content and pedagogy; one that is contextual, cultural and discursive.