... and monetary transfers to the public sector still have to be in the old currency. In Germany, for example, both §244 HGB and §140 AO explicitly require denomination of closing balances and tax reports in DM. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Euro Accounting Currency European Union Electronic data...

... Democracy Politics European Union The political and economic “models” identified with the Nordic countries have long excited the interest of outside observers. Although an American writer, Marquis Childs, was hailing the Swedish “middle way” as early as the 1930s, this interest really took off after...

... and the European Union, culture is what appears on TV and possibly in the kind of newspaper that studiously avoids words of more than one syllable. This kind of culture is strongly influenced from across the Atlantic – the UK, for example, had only five terrestrial TV channels until the end of 1998, so the number...