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What's so great about an ever closer union anyway?
20 benets from 50 years of growing ties
Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2007
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1598997,00.html
1 | No Kidding, Peace
It was the Americans - with the Marshall Plan, and then nato - who laid the groundwork, but the
E.U. has helped to give Western Europe its most peaceful 60 years since records were 'rst
kept. Here's the big picture: France and Germany had fought a war in each of the three
generations before the Treaty of Rome. Twice Europe's wars had sucked in the rest of the
world. By locking together economies, societies and political structures, the E.U. has made such
horrors unimaginable. For that alone, give thanks.
2 | The French Countryside
There has to be something to be said for the Common Agricultural Policy, and indeed there is.
The timeless contours of la France profonde - at least south of the wheat and beet belt - are a
testimony to the long subsidy of French farming. The cap may o0end free-trade purists, but on
a summer morning somewhere in the Dordogne there's something to be said for impurity.
3 | Easier Travel
The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö; the Channel Tunnel; high-speed rail links
snaking out from France - all have done their bit to knit the Continent closer together than ever
before. But perhaps above all it is the growth of budget airlines - stimulated by regulations that
came into force in 1997, allowing an airline from one member state to operate a route in
another - that has made easy travel around Europe available to all.
4 | Ireland's Revival
E.U. structural funds aren't the only reason that the Emerald Tiger roars, and Ireland isn't the
only place where money from Brussels has helped build a modern infrastructure. But there's
something about the scale of the transformation of Ireland's economy since membership in
1973 that boggles the mind.
5 | That Burgundy Passport
Remember the days when your passport got scrutinized by some suspicious o:cial on even the
most straightforward trip from Innsbruck to Bolzano? Some of us do. But since the signing of
the Schengen Agreement in Luxembourg in 1985, the free movement of people has become
more than an aspiration - and an attribute of modern Europe, remarkably, that has survived the
struggle against terrorism of the last decade.
6 | GSM
You may not know that it stands for Global System for Mobile communications, but the E.U.'s
decision in 1987 to adopt a common standard for digital mobile telephony gave both the
telecoms and handset manufacturers like Ericsson and Nokia the security of knowing that there
was a huge single market for their products. The consequence: a whole new appreciation for
the virtues of the opposable thumb.
7 | Work Where You Want
It took years for the Treaty of Rome's dream of a single labor market to come to fruition, but
now - cue joke about Polish plumbers - the right to live, work, and indeed retire, in another
Union country is established, and such freedoms will gradually be extended to citizens from the
12 countries that joined since 2004. This means working to the same rules, too; though national
legislatures had taken the lead, the Treaty itself enshrined the principle of equal pay for equal
work for men and women, while the 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights proclaims workers'
entitlements on issues from labor mobility and collective bargaining to equal opportunities.
8 | Good News for Galicia
And Wales, Sardinia and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. For regions on the periphery of their
nations, with proud cultures and traditions of their own, the E.U. has been a godsend. The
Committee of the Regions provides a political voice while the E.U.'s regional policy has
channeled funds for projects aimed to tackle economic and social disparities within member
countries. The consequence? Not a Europe homogeneously harmonized, but one that is more
diverse than ever before.
9 | Cern
Since 1954 the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the outskirts of Geneva has
been in the forefront of advanced particle physics, 'guring out what stu0 we're made of.
Bonus: Tim Berners-Lee was on the sta0 there when he developed a new way for scientists to
share information over the Internet - the World Wide Web.
10 | The Euro
The single currency - introduced on Jan. 1, 2002, and now used by 315 million people in 13
countries - did more than eliminate those tiresome collections of small coins that we used to
bring back from vacation. By making prices transparent, the euro made the single European
market a reality.
11 | Airbus
Sure, we know, the jewel of European industrial collaboration looks pretty scratched these days
as the aerospace company's management weaknesses are exposed. And yes, "launch aid" for
new planes is a taxpayer subsidy by any other name. But the weirdly cobbled together planes -
wings made in Britain, tail 'ns in Germany - have at least ensured that there's some
competition in the global commercial aviation market, and forced Boeing of the U.S. to raise its
own game.
12 | Better Football
Started as the European Cup in 1955, dominated by Real Madrid in the early years, the
Champions League now gets audiences from Minsk to Munster watching the same images, and
the 'nal each year has become Europe's Super Bowl. Plus: the Bosman case in 1995 - where
the European Court ruled that players at the end of their contracts could move freely between
clubs - enabled top teams to become the collection of international talents they are now.
13 | Erasmus
Since 1987, over 1.5 million university students have bene'ted from the Erasmus European
exchange program and taken comparative knowledge of local beers to unimagined heights. The
E.U.'s Lifelong Learning Programme has a $9 billion budget for the next seven years to develop
areas such as cooperation in education policy, student exchanges and adult learning.
14 | Tabloid Heaven
British Euro-skepticism may irritate others, but let's be fair - it has much contributed to the
gaiety of nations. What would the London red tops do without the constant supply of stories -
most of them urban myths - about European standardization of everything from cucumbers to
condoms? Our favorite: the widely reported claim that E.U. safety rules required circus
tightrope walkers and jugglers to wear hard hats.
15 | The Fourth Movement of Beethoven's Ninth
To tell the truth, we 'nd the "Choral" a bit crass, as symphonies go. But at least since
Beethoven's tune was adopted as the E.U.'s anthem in 1985, kids learn at least one bit of
classical music. It would be even nicer if they knew the words of Friedrich von Schiller's Ode to
Joy. Plus: as Iags go, those gold stars on a blue 'eld make a pretty decent one.
16 | Clean Beaches
In 2005, 96% of Europe's coastal beaches were deemed clean enough for swimming, thanks to
the 1976 Bathing Water Directive - toughened up last year - which set binding minimum water-
quality standards. More than 200 pieces of E.U. environmental law, aimed at staunching toxic
fumes, eliminating dangerous pesticides, phasing out cfcs, protecting birds and creating the
European Environment Agency have generally made the place more pleasant.
17 | Safer Food
In 2005 French President Jacques Chirac was recorded unawares by a French journalist joking
with the then German Chancellor and Russian President, "the only thing [Britain has] ever done
for European agriculture is mad cow disease." His point, surely, was that food scares such as
bse had the salutary e0ect of speeding moves to set basic health and labeling standards. The
European Food Safety Authority was established in 2002, and in 2006, food-labeling regulations
were tightened to substantiate nutritional claims like "low-fat" and "lowers cholesterol."
18 | Taking Climate Change Seriously
Al Gore has been the Cassandra of global warming, but the E.U. was the driving force behind
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. As part of the Kyoto process, the E.U. set up its Emissions Trading
Scheme, a market to trade pollution permits for carbon dioxide emissions. In recent months,
Europe has aimed for even lower emissions standards through initiatives on cars and aircraft
exhaust, and has already set minimum biofuel targets.
19 | A Reason to Go to Brussels
We would not go so far as to say that we love the place, but the Belgian capital deserves more
respect than it gets. The food and beer are great, it's developed a nicely cosmopolitan Iavor
and it's more green than almost any other European capital. It is also the home of Magritte,
Bruegel and Tintin, is a center of Art Nouveau and has enough Gothic architecture to do you for
a lifetime.
20 | Eastward Look, the Land is Bright
There were times when it seemed bogged down in bureaucratic technicalities, but the decision
after the fall of the Berlin Wall to o0er membership to the former communist nations of Eastern
Europe was a courageous and generous act of leadership. There are now 11 former Soviet
republics and East bloc states in the E.U., and the boundaries of democracy and free markets
have been decisively moved East.
Write an essay of 200 - 250 words giving your own opinions based on the article
above. Could success of the European Union at least partially be copied into other
countries and continents worldwide? Please continue on the following page. Your
answer will be graded both according to content and to your use of English
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Part 2 – Mathematical and Problem Solving Part
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Please answer the following twenty (20) questions. The correct answer is worth + 1
point, an incorrect and no answer are both worth 0 points. Please answer on sheet
provided on the next page. You have 60 minutes to answer these.
1. A, B, and C share a fee that they have received. A gets 1/5, B gets 2/4 while C’s
share is €3,000. Calculate the share of A.
a) €600.00 b) €2,000.00 c) €2,100.00 d) Other, specify _______
2. The price of a product was rst increased by 10 % and then by 7 %, i.e. €25.20.
How many per cent had the price increased altogether?
a) 16.3% b) 17.0% c) 17.7% d) Other, specify _______
3. What is the price of which 22 % accounts for €22?
a) €88 b) €100 c) €122 d) Other, specify _______
4. Find the single percentage increase or decrease equivalent to a 50 % increase
followed by a 25 % decrease.
a) +25% b) -25% c) +12.5% d) Other, specify _______
5. A college course involves coursework and an end term examination. The aggregate
mark for the course is determined by a 40:60 weighting between coursework and
examination. If a student is given 64 per cent for coursework, what is required in the
examination to obtain an aggregate mark of 50 per cent?
a) 30.0% b) 40.7% c) 36.0% d) Other, specify _______
6. A 10 % increase in the price of petrol decreased consumption by 5 %. How many
per cent and in what direction did the sales returns change?
a) +4.5% b) +5.0% c) -4.5% d) Other, specify _______
7. How will this sequence of numbers continue? 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …
a) 24 b) 34 c) 44 d) Other, specify _______
8. How will this sequence of numbers continue? 1, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125, …
a) 0.03125 b) 0.0625 c) 0 d) Other, specify _______
9. How will this sequence of numbers continue? 8, -4, 2, -1, …
a) 0 b) 0.5 c) -0.5 d) Other, specify _______
10.Solve the following equation. 10(x-2) = 4x + 6 - (1-x)
a) -5 b) +5 c) 3.571 d) Other, specify _______
11.(x
2
)
4
is equal to
a) x
6
b) x
8
c) x
16
d) Other, specify _______
12.(2X + 2)
2
– (4x+8)x is equal to
a) 4 b) -8x + 4 c) 4x
2
+ 12x + 4 d) Other, specify _______
13.If you increase the price of a product by 375%, you have to multiply the original
price by the factor
a) 3.75 b) 4.75 c) 2.15 d) Other, specify _______
14.George and Vladimir invested in the stock. George earned €3,000 on an investment
of €15,000. Find the return on Vladimir’s investment, if he earned twice as much as
George relatively. Vladimir invested €20,000.
a) €8,000 b) €6,000 c) €4,000 d) Other, specify _______
15.A construction job requires the labour of 15 workers for 28 days. How many
workers are needed to complete the job in 8 days’ less time?
a) 11 b) 19 c) 21 d) Other, specify _______
16.Number B is three times as much as number A. On the other hand, number B is one
quarter of number C. What is number A, when number C = 36?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) Other, specify _______
17.My basic salary plus over time salary is altogether 2,500 €. My basic salary is 2,000
€ more than my over time salary. What is my basic salary?
a) €1,500 b) €2,000 c) €2,250 d) Other, specify _______
18.6 kilos of oranges cost as much as 5 kilos of apples. 4 kilos of apples cost as much
as 3 kilos of bananas. 2 kilos of bananas cost €2.40. What is the price for oranges per
kilo?
a) €0.50 b) €0.75 c) €1.00 d) Other, specify _______
19.12 years ago I was 3 times as old as my son. Now I am twice as old as he. How old
is my son now?
a) 12 years b) 24 years c) 36 years d) Other, specify _______
20. There is 80% of water and 4% of sugar in fresh apples. How many per cent of
sugar is there in the same apples, when they have been dried so that the moisture
content is 20%?
a) 1% b) 4% c) 16% d) Other, specify _______
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