Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.

After the incidents of Moruroa, David McTaggart had moved to France to battle in court with the French state and helped to develop the cooperation of European Greenpeace groups.

Greenpeace has also supported the rejection of GM food from the US in famine-stricken Zambia as long as supplies of non-genetically engineered grain exist, stating that the US " should follow in the European Union's footsteps and allow aid recipients to choose their food aid, buying it locally if they wish.

* The European Energy Council and Greenpeace believes that the entire world can be powered by renewable energy by 2090.

In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the European eel to its seafood red list.

In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the European plaice to its seafood red list.

After an internship at Greenpeace in Brussels, she became an intern at the cabinet of Dutch European Commissioner Frans Andriessen.

Now enjoying control of the nutmeg production the VOC paid the perkeniers 1 / 122nd of the Dutch market price for nutmeg, however, the perkeniers still profited immensely building substantial villas with opulent imported European decorations.

A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

Prices paid by European wood buyers are phenomenally high by local standards, and there is much pressure to utilize this opportunity for cash accumulation, even without legal permits.

Porsche's design and development efforts paid off during the 1978 European Car of the Year competition where the 928 won ahead of the BMW 7-series and the Ford Granada.

In any event, the high prices paid put some European telecom operators close to bankruptcy ( most notably KPN ).

Due to differing valuations in other European countries this inadvertently resulted in a silver shortage as silver coins were used to pay for imports, while exports were paid for in gold, effectively moving Britain from the silver standard to its first gold standard, rather than the bimetallic standard implied by the proclamation.

Race Officials and course workers are usually volunteers, but may include paid staff and, in some European countries, members of the military.

* The adoption of the European directive on equal treatment for women in paid employment ( 1979 ).

The British government paid out large sums of money to other European states, so that they could remain at war with France.

* Reflecting the respect which medieval European scholars paid to him, Averroes is named by Dante in The Divine Comedy with the great pagan philosophers whose spirits dwell in " the place that favor owes to fame " in Limbo.

In 1974, frustrated by lack of commercial success, he released two albums of more conventional rock music that were critically panned ; this move, combined with not having been paid for a European tour, and years of enduring Beefheart's abusive behavior, led the entire band to quit.

During the 17th century, the Spanish Crown paid for the services of prominent European military engineers to construct fortresses.

Many modern European roads were originally constructed as toll roads in order to recoup the costs of construction, maintenance and as a source of tax money that is paid primarily by someone other than the local residents.

Scottish and European Union students studying in Scotland have their tuition fees paid by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.

Curtiz paid part of his own salary into the European Film Fund, a benevolent association which helped European refugees in the film business establish themselves in the US.

The majority of European colonists were English people who arrived as indentured servants and who owed labor time, often up to seven years, to wealthier patrons who had paid for their passage to gain land and laborers.

“ They demanded that Stone ’ s killer be handed over to meet European justice, that a ransom in wampum worth 250 pounds sterling be paid ; that the Pequot cede all of their land to the Massachusetts Bay Colony ; that the Pequot only trade with the English ; and that all disputes between the Pequot and the Narragansett be mediated by the English.

When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the European business partners of Massachusetts merchants refused to extend lines of credit to them and insisted that goods be paid for with hard currency.

In company with Lord John Russell he went to the European Continent and after a Grand Tour through France, Switzerland and Italy lived in Paris until 1822 ( notably with the family of Martin de Villamil ), when the debt was finally paid off partly with the help of his latest patron Lord Lansdowne and with an advance given him by his publishers Longmans.

Although Barth was not the first European visitor who paid attention to the local oral traditions, he was the first who seriously considered its methodology and use for historical research.

When valuing European options written on stocks with known dividends that will be paid out during the life of the option, the formula becomes:

The European court ruled that the Teacake was not, in fact, a biscuit but a cake and as such Marks and Spencer have begun a legal battle in the UK to retrieve the taxes paid which could amount to as much as 3. 5 million UK pounds sterling ($ 5. 6 million ).

The U. S. effectively orchestrated payment of reparations ; under the Dawes Plan, the U. S. loaned money to Germany, to pay the reparations to countries like Britain and France, which in turn paid off their own war debts to the U. S. In the 1920s, European and American economies reached new levels of industrial production and prosperity.

Bulgaria also has the lowest personal and corporate income tax rates in the EU, as well as the second lowest public debt of all European Union member states at 16. 2 % of GDP in 2010.

This reflected the exposure of Cyprus to the global recession and European sovereign debt crisis.

The immense debt resulting from Isma ' il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion in 1882.

In October 2011, Eurozone leaders also agreed on a proposal to write off 50 % of Greek debt owed to private creditors, increasing the EFSF to about € 1 trillion and requiring European banks to achieve 9 % capitalization to reduce the risk of contagion to other countries.

There are widespread fears that a Greek default on its debt would have global repercussions, endangering the economies of many other countries in the European Union, threatening the stability of the European currency, the euro, and possibly plunging the world into another recession.

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.

The empire spent massive sums on Western civilian and military technology to try to modernize and compete with the encroaching European powers, and in the process went deep into debt to these powers.

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 ").

The International Monetary Fund suggested a devaluation of Latvia's currency, but the European Union objected to this, on the grounds that the majority of Latvia's debt was denominated in foreign currencies.

* 2011 – Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.

During the European sovereign-debt crisis, after incurring a € 900 million debt, the people of Parma voted in a direct democratic platform.

After losing his majority in parliament amid growing fiscal problems related to the European debt crisis, Berlusconi officially resigned as Prime Minister on 16 November 2011.

In 2008 the total Spanish public debt ( government debt ) relative to the total GDP was well below the European Union average, and in fact the government budget was in surplus.

In 2012, public debt increased to 62 % of GDP, however, the average public debt to GDP ratio remains low compared to other European countries.

Despite the extensive intervention of central banks, including partial and total nationalization of major European banks, the crisis of sovereign debt became particularly acute, first in Iceland, though as events of the early 2010s would show, it was not an isolated European example.

The Weimar Republic, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, because of the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the Treaty of Versailles.

During the early part of the 2010s, the Dow made a fairly notable rally attempt in the face of growing global concerns such as the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis and the Dubai debt crisis.

Foreign Minister Luis María Drago of Argentina announced policy that no European power could use force against any American nation to collect debt, supplanted in 1904 by Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine.