Category: Member states of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries

Countries participating in the SAP have been offered the possibility to become, once they fulfill the necessary conditions, member states of the EU.

In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.

This was the first book of Masses by a native composer: in the Italian states of his day, most composers of sacred music were from the Low Countries, France, Portugal, or Spain.

Episodes of widespread famine and disease devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent, the Low Countries, Bohemia and Italy, while bankrupting many of the regional powers involved.

In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first President of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ), and maintains close ties with other Lusophone states.

Famine and disease significantly decreased the population of the German states and Bohemia, the Low Countries, and Italy, and most of the combatant powers were bankrupted.

The shield had six sections, each representing " the Countries from which these States have been peopled " ( England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and Holland ), surrounded by the initials of all thirteen states.

The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France ( Artois, French Flanders ), and a small part of Western Germany.

# Countries with long-term civil war or large-scale breakdown of rule of law (" failed states ") ( e. g. Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Somalia ) or non-development-oriented dictatorship ( North Korea, Myanmar and Zimbabwe ).

Countries in this situation are often called satellite states.

Countries that are members of regional organizations or party to regional agreements may however issue visas valid for entry into some or all of the member states of the organization or agreement:

However, the gap between rich and poor widened in most nations-the OECD journalist resource ( 2011-05 ) entitled " Growing Income Inequality in OECD Countries " states that with the exceptions of only France, Japan and Spain, wages of the 10 % best-paid workers have risen relative to those of the 10 % least-paid workers and the differential between the top and bottom 10 % varies greatly from country to country: “ While this ratio is much lower in the Nordic countries and in many continental European countries, it rises to around 14 to 1 in Israel, Turkey and the United States, to a high of 27 to 1 in Chile and Mexico .”

Countries that wish to have PNTR must fulfill two basic requirements: ( 1 ) comply with the Jackson-Vanik provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 that states that the President of the United States determines that a country neither denies or impedes the right or opportunity of its citizens to emigrate ; and ( 2 ) reach a bilateral commercial agreement with the United States.

As a result, they were dispersed to other Slavic lands, various German states, and as far as the Low Countries, where Comenius attempted to direct a resurgence in manner similar to the secret Jews ( The Marranos ) in Spanish Habsburg and other Roman Catholic lands.

The first summit-level meeting of Comecon member states in fifteen years was held with much fanfare on June 12 – 14 June 1984, in Moscow ( the 23d " Special " Session of Comecon Member Countries ).

Countries such as Portugal ( which states that one of the primary roles of the Constituent Assembly is to open the way to socialist society ), India and Algeria have used the term " socialist " in their official name or constitution without claiming to follow Communism or any of its derivatives.

Rostock was among the largest universities in Germany at the time and many of its students also came from the Low Countries, Scandinavia or other states bordering the Baltic Sea.

Countries covered included Haiti, Asian successor states of the Soviet Union and Caucasian and Middle Eastern states.

Countries that have employed this device in the past include Great Britain, Russia, Sweden and many German states.

Countries including Belgium, Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta, and seven US states have such laws, including Indiana and Georgia.

After World War II, the principles of international law that upheld the territorial integrity of states were incorporated in the Charter of the United Nations, and subsequently reaffirmed in the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the Organization of African Unity charter respecting the integrity of inherited boundaries, and the 1975 CSCE Helsinki Final Act which contained a proscription that boundaries could only be altered by consent.

Spreading westward along the coastline it is found in the Ertebølle culture of Denmark and Ellerbek of Northern Germany, and the related Swifterbant culture of the Low Countries.

Relative political stability and prosperity in the Low Countries, along with a flourishing system of music education in the area's many churches and cathedrals, allowed the training of hundreds of singers and composers.

By 1433 most of the Belgian and Luxembourgian territory along with much of the rest of the Low Countries became part of Burgundy under Philip the Good.

Nevertheless, major setbacks in Spain at Almanza and along the Rhine in Southern Germany, had caused Marlborough great anxiety and made the Dutch even less cooperative, vetoing the Duke's plans for any major action in the Low Countries.

Two galleries running along the western side of the Small Hermitage from the Northern to Southern Pavilion house an exhibition of Western European decorative and applied art from the 12th to 15th century and the fine art of the Low Countries from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Its remains have been found in what is now Portugal, Spain, France ( excluding the central massif ), Great Britain and Ireland, the Low Countries, and Germany between the Elbe and Rhine, with an extension along the upper Danube into the Vienna basin ( Austria ), Hungary and Czech Republic, with Mediterranean outposts on Sardinia and Sicily ; there is less certain evidence for direct penetration in the east.

Edward's policy of building alliances put him in great debt, and when he left the Low Countries to return to England late in 1338, Salisbury had to stay behind as surety to the king's debtors, along with the king's family and the Earl of Derby.

This term has been hijacked by the Belgicists, who created the " Whole-Netherlandism " ideology or Burgundism, whose aim is a so-called " Whole-Netherlands " ( Heel-Nederland ) combining all the Low Countries into a single multilingual entity This would unite, not the territories in which Dutch people live, but all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands ( which would be similar to the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands ) and Northern France, most likely Nord-Pas de Calais ), along the lines of the historical Burgundian Circle ), creating a Greater Belgium.

The event is often attended by reporters and documentary makers from several European Countries, along with those from the USA and Japan.

During the civil war that raged in the Low Countries in the 16th century, one of the feudal lords of Melsen, Filips III van der Gracht, was decapitated in Ghent along with others for his rebellion against the Spanish occupiers.

The DPA has offices in 80 Countries, 12 regional German bureaus along with 50 additional offices in Germany.

The Phoney War refers to the conduct of the war in Western Europe, primarily along the Franco-German border, between the declaration of war on September 3, 1939, to the invasion of France and the Low Countries by Germany on May 10, 1940.

The Framingham Heart Study, along with other important large studies, e. g., the Seven Countries Study, Nurses ' Health Study, Women's Health Initiative, also showed the importance of healthy diet, not being overweight or obese, and regular exercise in maintaining good health, and that there are differences in cardiovascular risk between men and women.

The regiment fought in the Low Countries, ultimately under the name Lord Lorne's Regiment, until the cessation of hostilities in 1697 when it was disbanded by the Parliament of Scotland along with all other regiments raised since 1681.

In addition, the university, through its Master of Arts in Democratic Governance and Civil Society graduate program, is also part of the highly-prestigious DAAD Public Policy and Good Governance Scholarships for Developing Countries, along with other reputable institutions in political science and public policy such as the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt.

** Beaker culture spreads to most of Western Europe ( Portugal, Spain, France ( excluding the central massif ), Great Britain and Ireland, the Low Countries, and Germany from the Elbe valley west, with an extension along the upper Danube into the Vienna basin in Austria, with Mediterranean outposts on Sardinia and Sicily ).

The occupied Lesser Germania was divided into two provinces: Germania Inferior ( Lower Germania ) ( approximately corresponding to the southern part of the present-day Low Countries ) and Germania Superior ( Upper Germania ) ( approximately corresponding to present-day Switzerland and Alsace ).

The area is the historical heart of the Low Countries, a region corresponding roughly to all of modern Belgium ; the Netherlands south of the Rhine ; the French regions of Nord, Picardy, Upper Normandy, and Champagne-Ardenne ; and the northern part of the German Rhineland ( not including the Moselle ).

The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.

The vast majority of ethnic Franks, divided between Salians and Ripuarians, were confined respectively to the Low Countries, the northeastern tip of modern France and the Rhine river banks all the way down to near the Main and Hesse areas.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

* Godfrid, Duke of Frisia, a pillager of the Low Countries and the Rhine area and briefly a lord of Frisia.

Grandiose imperial desires to turn back the French expansion to the Rhine which had occurred since the middle decades of the seventeenth century were not realized, nor was the French border pushed back in the Low Countries.

The Low Countries () are the historical lands around the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

Later Cimmerian remnant groups may have spread as far as to the Nordic Countries and the Rhine River.

He subsequently held various commands in the Low Countries, on the Rhine and in the Italian Peninsula, where up to January 1799 he served as commander in chief.

The Low Countries were favorably positioned on a crossing of east-west and north-south trade routes and connected to a large German hinterland through the Rhine river.

Meanwhile he had been appointed physician to the elector of Bavaria ; but in 1670 he was again in Vienna advising on the establishment of a silk factory and propounding schemes for a great company to trade with the Low Countries and for a canal to unite the Rhine and Danube.

He served with the Swedes in the Low Countries and on the Rhine, distinguishing himself for skill and courage at Fleurus.

At the end of his apprenticeship and following the custom of the day, he became a traveling workman ; acquiring fresh knowledge in many parts of France and the Low Countries, perhaps even in the Rhine Provinces of Germany and in Italy.

# ‘ Legends of the Rhine and of the Low Countries ,’ 1832, 3 vols.

By 1797 the French had defeated the First Coalition, occupied the Low Countries, the west bank of the Rhine, and Northern Italy, objectives which had defied the Valois and Bourbon dynasties for centuries.