All educated European gentlemen were expected to make the Grand Tour, visiting Italy to see its great historical monuments and works of art.

* 1999: European Tour ( with Blink-182 )

* 2008: Rock n Roll Revival Tour: European Tour

* 2008: European Tour ( with Finger Eleven )

Following the surge in popularity, new poker tours soon emerged, notably the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour, both televised and the latter sponsored by online poker company PokerStars.

* Each July the Tour de Paris, a bicycle tour that brings many tourists, both American and European.

Robyn completed a short US tour to promote Robyn, and was the supporting act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour at select European dates in 2008.

In January 2009 the band embarked on a UK and European tour, the " Another Bites Tour ", in which they played their first two albums in full, as well as an encore of their other hits.

Between September and December 1980, the Undertones performed two further tours: the ' Disaster Tour ( European Style )', which saw the band perform in continental Europe and — in December — the ' See No More ' tour of the UK.

These factors led to Sharkey announcing his intentions to leave the Undertones during the ' European Tour 1983 ', which the group performed in May of that year.

* Welsh Golf Classic, a professional tournament on the European Tour from 1979 to 1982

* PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, European Poker Tour event

Williams finished the year with a European Tour late in 1999.

Williams kicked off his Close Encounters World Tour in South Africa in April 2006, when he finished his European leg of the tour.

* Poland European Tour 1968

Fota Island is a tourist attraction due to Fota Wildlife Park which is the only wildlife park in Ireland, Fota House and Gardens, and the Fota Golf Club and Resort ; a European Tour standard golf course which has also hosted the Irish Open in recent times.

Psyche began their 28th year of existence performing selected dates as opener for Nitzer Ebb on their European Tour.

The group then started an international The Occupied Europe Tour ' 83, with the group The Last Few Days, which included sixteen dates in eight Eastern and Western European countries.

The European leg of the 1993 " World Of Hurt Tour " featured Savatage and Non-Fiction as support acts.

* September 2003-Liroy managing and producing Eastern European Tour ( or hip-hop icons PMD, DJ HONDA and K-SOLO ;

The competition is jointly administered by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour, and is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in the USA and Europe.

** Points ( 1 Point = 1 Euro ) earned in official European Tour events from September 1, 2011 to the conclusion of the 2012 Johnnie Walker Championship on August 26

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.

By 2012, 26 varieties herbicide-resistant GM maize were authorised for import into the European Union ,.

In June 2012 the Cypriot finance minister Vassos Shiarly stated that the European Central Bank, European commission and IMF officials are to carry out an in-depth investigation into Cyprus ' economy and banking sector to assess the level of funding it requires.

Charlton then lifted the League One trophy on 5 May 2012, having been in the top position since 15 September 2011, and after recording a 3 – 2 victory over Hartlepool United, recorded their highest ever league points score of 101, the highest in any professional European league that year.

Dublin will be European Capital of Science in 2012.

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

The President of the European Parliament ( Parliament's speaker ) is currently Martin Schulz ( S & D ), elected in January 2012.

In Eurobarometer 77 ( fieldwork in Spring 2012 ), 41 % of Finns trusted the European Union ( EU-27 average: 31 %), 51 % trusted The European Parliament ( average: 40 %), and 74 % were in favor of the euro currency ( average: 52 %).

* 2012 – The European Space Agency ( ESA ) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe ’ s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

GDP per capita is similar to the average European economies but the economy is critically dependent upon substantial support from the Danish government, which supplies about half the revenues of the home rule government who in turn employ about 8, 000 Greenlanders out of a labor force of 40, 156 ( Jan. 2012 ).

In July 2012, the European Medicines Agency recommended approval of a gene therapy treatment for the first time in either Europe or the United States.

On 17 January 2012, the European Commission launched legal action against Hungary over the new central-bank law, judicial reforms, and the independence of the new data ombudsman.

The European Commission launched legal proceedings against Hungary on 17 January 2012.

In 2012 Sarkozy ran for re-election but was defeated by François Hollande who advocated a growth policy in contrast to the austerity policy advocated by Germany's Angela Merkel as a way of tackling the European sovereign debt crisis.

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As a result of austerity measures passed in December 2010, Italy is targeting a public budget deficit of 3. 9 % in 2011 and 2. 7 % in 2012, both among the lowest in the European Union.

In April 2012, at the European Court of Human Rights, Patrick Stuebing lost his case that the conviction violated his right to a private and family life.

However, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008, Greek government debt crisis, 2008 – 2012 Spanish financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, thinkers such as Terry Eagleton, David Harvey, and David McNally have given renewed impetus to the debate on whether Marx was right that capitalism inherently tends towards crisis ( which Marx discussed as the " contradictions of capital ").

Among the various free trade agreements that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at the horizons of 2012 ; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, within the framework of the installation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area ; the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement with United States which came into force on 1 January 2006, and lately the agreement of free exchange with Turkey.