...Belgium Trade Manual: Canada The following document is a report on the current economic, political, cultural, and industry specific (Food) environment in the country of Belgium. This particular manual was specifically compiled for the Sweets Corporation of Toronto, Canada for June of 2011. C o n s u l a t e o f B e l g i u m -‐ T o r o n t o 2 B l o o r S t r e e t W e s t , S u i t e 2 0 0 6 , B o x 8 8 T o r o n t o , O N , M 4 W 3 E 2 Table of Contents Section 1 – Background Information ....................................................................................................... 3 1.1 - Geography ................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 - People .......................................................................................................................
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...Bulge, all stated that there was hysteria among their ranks, no one knew what to do or what was going on. The intelligence failed to perceive the offensive coming and left the soldiers in the Ardennes in the dark. Assaulting through the Ardennes Woods in eastern Belgium on December 16, many German tanks and a few hundred thousand German troops got through the daintily held American lines. In spite of the fact that the Germans propelled as much as 50 miles in a few territories, the Ardennes hostile was fleeting. Regardless of taking horrible misfortunes, US powers figured out how to defer the foe sufficiently to allow fortifications to be moved into position to end the German drive. By December 26, it was clear that the German development...
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...Belgium - Kingdom of Belgium - Federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch - 3 distinct autonomous regions --- Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels Capital - Each of the 3 has its own legislative body and extensive powers - Divided into 2 administrative communities--- 3 official languages: Dutch, French and German - Majority of the population can speak English as a second or third language - Roman Catholic - 1 CAD=0.747994 EUR - Capital: Brussels - Mild winters : Temperate Cool summers : cloudy, rainy, humid - Border countries : France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands Making Appointments -Telephone/write at least a week in advance -Belgian company will set the time of appointment -Aim to arrive punctually -Public transportation is first class, however the roads are very busy around the Capital, Brussels, therefore, if travelling by car, plan time wisely. -First appointments are mostly socially orientated, Belgians like to get to know someone before proceeding with business - Appointment at 11:30 a.m. = a luncheon appointment -No breakfast meetings, prefer times are mid-morning and mid-afternoon -Office hours: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. with 30-60 minutes for lunch. -Business don’t close early on Fridays - Shops hours: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. from Mon. to Sat. (some close for lunch) -Banks: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. Mon. to Fri -Belgians take a one-month vacation (July-August) -Celebrates traditional European...
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...Global Wine War 1. How were the French able to dominate the worldwide wine trade for centuries? The French were the first to dominate the wine trade and largely due to their time advantage the European Union was able to create laws to assimilate all wine produced from the regions of France and Italy. This absolutely helped shaped the wine industry by having standards and laws; anyone who later produced wine had the structure to produce quality based on the French laws created. Being isolated in the European regions played a huge role in its success. For many years the whole world drank French wine that was grown using strict standards. Their understanding of concentrated retail channels gave the growers an edge in the market place providing a stronghold on the market. Although the France and Italy were reinforced when they produced quantity, if the opposite was rang true France strategically would placed themselves ahead in the wine industry for centuries to come. 2. How should the Australian/ American/ French respond to their situations? Foreign markets attempting to become competitors in a longstanding European dominated market should target their foremost problem; isolation. France is an isolated market with very little variability. Australia, China, and America all have access to the French markets variety in addition to their originating market. They possess the capability to capture even more economic advantage by reducing handling stages, holding less...
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...The emergence and deepening of the European identity has been a significant aspect of integration over the past two decades. The European identity can be classified as a set of values shared by all the citizens of the European Union. The most tangible illustration of a European identity is the European Union (EU), a political-economic union that consists of 28 member states within Europe. Individuals and nations within Europe subordinating parochial interests is an imperative influence for the assimilation of Europe, as it achieves a common sense personified by the identity, based on the beliefs, values and norms. The concept of European identity can be demonstrated through cultural, social and political factors in varying degrees, with reference to the French society. Cultural and social identities involve the existence of a European identity that exceeds the distinctiveness of individuals based on native factors such as national identity or culture group identity, whereas political identities considers the strengthening expansion of a European identity through the influence of European identity. Supporters of European integration regard the development of a European identity as part of the quest to a culturally, politically, economically and influential united Europe. A European identity can notionally exist simultaneously through national or cultural identities, with individuals establishing a hierarchy of importance or relevance for their identities to their lives. Cultural...
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...Essay by David Sedaris ’’Me Talk Pretty One Day’’ ’’Me Talk Pretty One Day’’ is an essay written by David Sedaris in 2005. The essay is about David Sedaris himself and his own experiences to learn a foreign language, French. He has some struggles learning it even though Sedaris has taken some French lessons in New York before moving to Paris. But being 41 years old and start all over in school again can be a challenge, especially if you have a strict teacher. Before David Sedaris decided to move to Paris, France, he took a French course in New York, where he lived so that he would not be an absolute beginner when attending the French class in Paris. The first day of school, Sedaris seems excited and it all seems, as he writes, nerve-racking. He already knows that he is expected to perform, which put a definite pressure on him with the French teaching system, ‘’That’s the way they do it here – everyone into the language pool, sink or swim’’. He also does not feel as confident with the French language as the other students, but he realizes that his nervousness is the least of his problems. The teacher of his French course is a very intimidating woman, who seems to have no interest in the students’ well being. She is picking on the students and making fun of their answers, because of their broken French. Their teacher seems very violent, ‘’We soon learned to dodge chalk and protect our heads and stomachs whenever she approached us with a question’’. She does not hit them...
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...© Roger Bougie 2011 The Larouche Candy Company In 1864 Henricus Larouche started making high-quality chocolate in his kitchen in Ooigem, Belgium. Henricus learned his trade at a famous chocolate shop in Paris, and he and his wife began to make chocolate in bars, wafers and other shapes soon after Henricus had returned to Belgium to start his own business. The Belgian people loved Larouche’s chocolate and the immediate success soon caused him to increase his production facilities. Henricus decided to build a chocolate factory in Kortrijk, a nearby city in the Flemish province West Flanders. With mass-production, the company was able to lower the per-unit costs and to make chocolate, once a luxury item, affordable to everybody. The Larouche Candy Company flourished, expanded its product lines and acquired related companies during the following decades. Within a century the company had become Belgium’s leading candymanufacturer employing over 2,500 people. Today, The Larouche Candy Company is one of the biggest manufacturers of chocolate and nonchocolate confectionery products in Europe. Under the present leadership of Luc Larouche the company has become truly innovative. What’s more, the company has adopted a very proactive approach to marketing planning and is therefore a fierce competitor in an increasingly global marketplace. The number of products the company produces and markets has increased dramatically; at this moment there are more than 250 Larouche Candy...
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...12 simple and easy-to-use tips to make even faster progress and be fluent in no time ! easy-to-use tips to make even faster progress and be fluent in no time ! 12and simple 1 Whatever method you choose, stick to it and follow it to the letter In many cases this makes all the difference. A well-designed course adheres to a strict teaching method and rhythm. In developing and adjusting the method, the course designers have closely studied the results obtained by many of our learners, and have taken into account their relevant comments and criticisms, so make the most of the experience of those who have gone before you and follow the recommendations closely! Of course, it’s not easy to judge a method before you’ve tried it, it makes sense to choose one that offers a money back guarantee. 2 Make a point of studying every day Language learning is rooted in the idea of constant repetition. For example, if you learn 10 expressions and then interrupt your studies, this is what happens: the next day you will have forgotten one of them, the following day two, the day after that 3, and so on. But if you study regularly, everything becomes easier and the "wastag" extremely limited. 3 It is absolutely essential to pronounce the French text out loud Get rid of the idea once and for all that you can learn to speak "in your mind". Repeat out loud. Nobody’s spying on you! When you learn a language you gain the respect and admiration of others. A French person who makes...
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...French Values and the European Union The development of France as a nation and the French identity has been a complicated and gradual process. Though it is true that France is a country in Western Europe and its inhabitants speak French, there is much more to the definition of France as a nation, society, or culture. France began its development by becoming a civilization, something directly opposed to "barbarism" and, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, "the action or proves of civilizing or of being civilized; a developed or advanced state of human society." France then began to develop into a nation, or a modern political institution. Many of its national values are based on Enlightenment philosophers, who said that "governments should be reflections of the governed, of the people" (Lesson 1). Just as France does, every nation has a history, or "origin story," that describes how it originated and what type of being belongs in the French nation. After the Gauls, Roman Empire, and German invasion, the French Revolution finally brought about three values that define the French nation: liberté, fraternité, and égalité (liberty, brotherhood, and equality). The following two articles will show how these values and others, such as French exceptionalism and separatism, affect the French attitude towards the European Union. The first article summarizes France's response to a request from the European Commission for information about its recent Roma expulsions. According...
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...PROGRAM APPLICATION MANUAL VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................... 3 Step 1: Create an account ...................................................................................... 4 Step 2: Privacy preferences .................................................................................... 6 Step 3: Prior education .......................................................................................... 7 Step 4: Social Services ..........................................................................................10 Step 5: Intake Survey ...........................................................................................11 Step 6: Program Request ......................................................................................12 Step 7: Document checklist ...................................................................................15 Step 8: Finishing your application ...........................................................................16 INTRODUCTION This manual will guide you through the steps of the application procedure for a program at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. After you have submitted your online application you will receive an e-mail of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with, if applicable, the payment details for the application fee. After we have received the application fee the application process will start...
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...first Head of State to speak out openly about the spying allegations. Mr. Hollande became the first European Head of State to directly attack the proposed Europe-USA free trade agreement saying “There can be negotiations, transactions in all fields, only once France has obtained these guarantees — and this goes for the rest of Europe and other partners of the United States,” Mr. Hollande said. Earlier French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called on his American counterpart Secretary of State John Kerry to make a stopover in Europe on his way back from the West Asia. “Mr. Kerry should contact us immediately so we can have the required information and explanations,” Mr. Fabius said. France is particularly outraged because press reports say the U.S. spied on the French mission in Washington and at the United Nations. The former was baptised Wabash while snooping operations against the French U.N. mission were called “Blackfoot”. The operation against the Italians and the snooping operations against the Italians went under the code name “Bruneau”. The Guardian’s revelations that France, Italy or Greece were described as “targets to be attacked” by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in order to understand the dissensions within Europe has literally made the pot boil over. Germany and the European Union (EU) on Monday...
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...revolution began in britain before factories were made machines where powered by animal or human or water befopre the inmdusdtrial revolution making cloth was done on a spinning wheel in cottages the first industry that lead to ir was textile industry the main source power for ir machines steam steam engin es were powered by coal one of the major results of the industrial revolution was more products produced at a cheaper price for more people the ir did not lead to crises of .. free time activies workers earned low wages because the owners wanted to keep labour cost down by 1850 majoriy of britain lived in cities and factory towns wwi began when asutria declared war on serbia what was the schliefen plan? germany would invade belgium and tae france than russia the name of the first federal immigration policy the immigartion restriction act what were the rights given to australians through thye commonwealth franchise act voting rights which social legilastion established a minimum wage ? the harvester judgement wwi began in 1914 in which country to australians fight on the westernt front france what is the date of anzac day 25 april what is conscription compulsory military service the british campaign at gallipoli took place in which country turkey wjich primeminester unsuccessfully introduced constription billy hughes investigat the myall creek massacre in detail, why is it inmportant in australian history ? on june 10 1838 a group of white men murderd 28 aborginal...
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...Why the “Schlieffen Plan” failed, by Andrew Wright Andrew Wright was born in Canada, and has traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. He has written a spy novel entitled “After Iraq,” and published several articles online at www.militaryhistoryonline.com/ The “Schlieffen Plan” of the First World War is arguably the most widely known battle plan in the history of warfare. It is thought that Count Schlieffen’s plan was based on Hannibal’s victory at Cannae and inspired by the last chapter from Carl Von Clausewitz’s “On War” entitled “The Plan of a War designed to Lead to the Total Defeat of the Enemy.” Ultimately the plan failed. Or did it? It is well known that certain aspects of the plan were changed by Schlieffen’s successor Moltke the Younger. Many of these changes were crucial to the original plan and Count Schlieffen criticized Moltke the Younger for altering his magnum opus before he died. As Moltke the Younger had made several changes in the plan, once it failed to defeat the French he became the obvious scapegoat. But while it is true that his changes had significantly warped the original version of the “Schlieffen Plan,” one must also remember Moltke the Elder’s (Moltke the Younger’s uncle) sound maxim that “no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” For even Count Schlieffen’s original plan, with all its methodical calculations, failed to take into account a few variables that with or without Moltke’s changes, may have doomed the “Schlieffen...
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...International Marketing Prof. Bohumir Štědroň Nov. 27th, 2014 Ashley Wouters Charles University Table of Contents I. II. Importance in Belgium ......................................................... 1 History ............................................................................ 1 III. Organisation ...................................................................... 1 IV. Sponsors and partners .......................................................... 2 V. Marketing efforts ................................................................ 3 VI. The competition ................................................................. 3 VII. Economic and financial structure ............................................. 4 VIII. Distribution of revenues ........................................................ 7 IX. International financial comparison ........................................... 8 X. Case study ....................................................................... 12 XI. Bibliography ..................................................................... 18 List of figures Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure 1 - First division ........................................................................ 3 2 - Market value of the Jupiler Pro League......................................... 6 3 - Evolution...
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...------------------------------------------------- Katedra politológie Multiculturalism in Belgium Trenčín Michaela Cifrová 28. 11. 2014 Ročník : 1. Mgr Krúžok : 02 Introduction Multiculturalism is the thought and the political direction, built on the assertion that in one democratic state can work together seamlessly to live a group of people with different culture. Highlights the utility of cultural diversity for the company. The goal of multiculturalism is to unite all citizens regardless of their origin, race, religion. Multiculturalism in Belgium „ Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France, with a short coastline on the North Sea.“ „ Belgium became independent in 1830. Between 1970 and 1993, the country evolved into a more efficient federal structure. The power to make decisions is no longer the exclusive preserve of the federal government and the federal parliament. The leadership of the country is now in the hands of various partners, who independently exercise their authority within their domains. The Federal State nevertheless retains important powers, for example in the area of foreign affairs, national defence, justice, finance, social security, important parts of national health and domestic affairs...“ Full name is the kingdom of Belgium. The number of inhabitants in Belgium is 10.8 million and the capital city of Brussels. Belgium today, has three communities: the Flemish Community...
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