Codes of conduct framework agreements between transnational companies and global union federations

A third of humanity saw the Soviet Union as leading the world toward global socialism.

(j) Global advocacy for the African Union vision, to consolidate integration and promote sustainable development in Africa

BERLIN Ever since the global financial crisis erupted in September 2008, the European Union has been in turmoil.

BRUSSELS The global financial crisis has already highlighted both the strengths and the weaknesses of the European Union.

(d) The Union of International Fairs had changed its name to The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry

The European Union welcomes the decision to launch the first regular phase of the Global Marine Assessment (GMA).

Commends the global cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union in the field of peace and security

During the Cold War, the global strategic interdependence between the United States and the Soviet Union was acute and well recognized.

In research funded by the European Union, they studied what the global economic impact would be if global warming were to result in a collapse of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia is tightly integrated into the world economy, rendering the country vulnerable to the current global financial crisis.

Will the Greeks remain in the eurozone? What will happen to the European Union and the global economy if they do not?

In fact, authoritarianism was already on the way out in the former Soviet Union, but the global economic crisis halted the process.

European Union member States and the European Commission were founding members of the Global Fund to Fight HIV AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The efforts of the International Union of Pollution Prevention Associations, the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project, the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme and other organizations all play an important role in advancing this international cooperation.

The process began quietly, with the establishment in 1874 of the Union Générale des Postes (which later became the Universal Postal Union), and went virtually unnoticed by those in fields that lacked any need for global agreements.

First, and perhaps above all, the revolutions of 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union put an end to global bipolarity.

Despite the EU s need to focus inward while weathering the global economic crisis, the Union must not abandon its neighbors to the south.

By contrast, the United States and the European Union account for 54 of global GDP, despite having only 12 of the world s population.

The Union is firmly committed to urgent global action to mitigate climate change a serious, long term challenge for every part of the world.

Europe s global influence is feeble because of its internal quarrels and lack of unity, which render the European Union weak and limit its ability to act.

The 2001 Programme of Action is one such strategy, and the European Union is actively working towards its implementation at the national, regional and global levels.

Direct action by a global union. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) trains and places inspectors on ships to ensure compliance with international standards and agreements.

After the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the bipolar world order, victorious Western capitalism, under the leadership of the only world power, the United States, reigned supreme in global politics, and even more so in the global economy.

Ever closer union means an EU that moves ineluctably from economic and monetary union to banking union, then to fiscal union, and finally to political union.

Trade union resources. A significant contribution to the present review can be made by Public Services International (PSI), a global union federation of 20 million workers in 150 countries, many of whom work to deliver such vital services as water and energy.

A political union may also be called a legislative union or state union.

Of course, there is a remarkable progress, Randa Fakhr El Deen, executive director of the NGO Union Against Harmful Practices On Women and Children, told Global Voices.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, interest in a federal world government and, more generally, in the global protection of human rights, was renewed.

5 Declaration adopted by the World Health Organization Conference in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan (former Soviet Union) in 1978, set goals for global improvement in health (see www.who.int).

Monetary union without banking union will not work, and a workable banking union requires at least some elements of fiscal and political union.

NEW DELHI By marking the Cold War s end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics.

At the end of a global war that claimed more than 50 million lives, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world s two major powers.

The European Union pays particular tribute to the United Network of Young Peacebuilders, a global network of young people and youth organizations active in the field of peacebuilding.

The representative of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources called for a global mechanism for providing scientific advice to regional fisheries management organizations.

One example, at the global level, was the 108th Conference of the Inter Parliamentary Union, held in Santiago in 2003, which adopted a resolution on strengthening democratic institutions.

It has defined the agenda for years to come banking union, fiscal union, and political union.

In a united effort, a major crisis that would have openly divided the Union for years to come and which would have made Europe a global laughingstock was averted.

The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report currently ranks Switzerland's economy as the most competitive in the world, while ranked by the European Union as Europe's most innovative country.

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The Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 created a global air of fear and pessimism, and certainly the belief that the US and the Soviet Union could not be reconciled.

To be sure, there is no global threat on the scale of the former Soviet Union, but there are dangerous challenges emanating from such countries as Iran and North Korea.

While the United States and the European Union (EU) 15 top the list, with their markets exceeding 6 trillion each, developing countries' markets are the main concern of global retailers.

Efforts must be made to adapt human rights protection to the changing global situation, and in that regard Italy used the European Union (EU) as its primary point of reference.