* Northern Dimension

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* Northern Dimension Research Centre ( NORDI )

The Northern Dimension addresses the specific challenges and opportunities arising in those regions and aims to strengthen dialogue and co-operation between the EU and its member states, the northern countries associated with the EU under the European Economic Area ( Norway and Iceland ) and Russia.

The Northern Dimension is implemented within the framework of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia.

Several key priority themes for dialogue and co-operation under the Northern Dimension have been identified, including the followings.

The Northern Dimension is intended to promote security and stability in the region, as well as helping build a safe, clean and accessible environment for all people in the north.

Besides, the Northern Dimension also has the objectives of addressing the challenges arising from uneven regional development, and helping avoid the emergence of new dividing lines in Europe following EU enlargement.

With the enlargement of the Union on 1 May 2004 to include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the importance of the Northern Dimension has increased considerably: eight EU Member States ( Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden ) surround the Baltic Sea, and the EU ’ s shared border with Russia has lengthened.

The Northern Dimension as an important topic for EU policy was first recognised at the Luxembourg European Council in December 1997.

The Vienna European Council in December 1998 adopted a Commission Communication on a ‘ Northern Dimension for the policies of the Union '.

Six months later, in Cologne, the European Council adopted Guidelines for the implementation of the Northern Dimension.

In November 1999, the Finnish EU Presidency held a Ministerial Conference on the Northern Dimension, where an Inventory of current activities under the Northern Dimension was adopted.

The Helsinki European Council in December 1999 invited the Commission to prepare a Northern Dimension Action Plan, and the Feira European Council in June 2000 subsequently adopted this first ‘ Action Plan for the Northern Dimension in the external and cross-border policies of the European Union, 2001-2003.

In April 2001 the Swedish EU Presidency and the European Commission organised the 2nd Ministerial Conference on the Northern Dimension in Luxembourg.

In June 2001, the Gothenburg European Council endorsed a Full Report on Northern Dimension Policies that, while taking stock of the activities undertaken to implement the Feira Action Plan, also outlined ideas and proposals for the continuation of the Northern Dimension initiative.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout is concentrating.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

This is not due to any policy of discrimination on the part of the Northern universities.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

After some initial success in his efforts to take possession, Albert was driven from Saxony, and also from his Northern march by Henry, and compelled to take refuge in south Germany.

Restaurants specializing in Cantonese, Sichuanese, Hunanese, Northern Chinese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong traditions are widely available, as are more specialized restaurants such as seafood restaurants, Hong Kong-style diners and cafes ( also known as Cha chaan teng ( 茶餐廳 chácāntīng )), dim sum teahouses, and hot pot restaurants.

In the United Kingdom, dialects, word use and accents vary not only between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, but also within them.

It focuses on historical Norse paganism of the Viking Age as described in the Eddas, but proponents also take a more inclusive approach, defining it as " Northern European Heathenry " not limited to a specific historical period.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

The arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus, formerly known as Alopex lagopus ), also known as the white fox, polar fox or snow fox, is a small fox native to Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

However, Dürer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn traveled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.

An AMRAAM was also involved in a friendly-fire incident in 1994 when F-15 fighters patrolling the Northern No-Fly Zone inadvertently shot down a pair of U. S. Army Black Hawk helicopters.

Bronski also remixed the track " Flowers in the Morning " by Northern Irish electronic band, Electrobronze in 2007, changing the style of the song from classical to Hi-NRG disco

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The child bore this name of shame to show that the Northern Kingdom would also be shamed, for its people would no longer be known as God's People.

Caithness, Sutherland and the Northern Isles have the densest concentrations, but there are also a great many examples in the west of Scotland and the Hebrides.

Provisional IRA activity also increased across Northern Ireland with thirty British soldiers being killed in the remaining months of 1971, in contrast to the ten soldiers killed during the pre-internment period of the year.

There are also commercial deposits being actively mined in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia ( mostly in Yakutia territory ; for example, Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe ), Brazil, and in Northern and Western Australia.

They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).

According to it, Central Asia includes Mongolia, Tibet, northeast Iran ( Golestan, North Khorasan and Razavi provinces ), Afghanistan, Northern Areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( also called N. W. F. P.

Afghanistan as a whole, the Northern Areas of Pakistan and the Kashmir Valley may also be included.

The programme also made use of Northern English language and dialect ; affectionate local terms like " eh, chuck?

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

* The Cordillera Central ( also called Sierra del Cibao ) is the island's most rugged and imposing feature and is known in Haiti as the Massif du Nord (" Northern Massif ").

Northern style dolmens are above ground with a four sided chamber and a megalithic roof ( also referred to as table type ), while southern style ( usually but not always underground ) are made up of a stone chest or pit covered by a slab.

Dimona itself was conceived in 1953, and settled in 1955, mostly by new immigrants from Northern Africa, who also constructed the city's houses.

In the Northern Hemisphere pines Pinus, spruces Picea, larches Larix, silver firs Abies, Douglas firs Pseudotsuga and hemlocks Tsuga, make up the canopy, but other taxa are also important.