Silvio Berlusconi was Italy's longest serving Prime Minister since the Second World War. As Prime Minister, he exercised control over the three public television channels in Italy. The combination of a strong political figure that controls large parts of public media and has considerable business interests …

Spain is a country which at the moment has several economic problems. Therefore, the Spanish Government is offering non-European citizens the possibility of receiving Spanish residential visa when investing more than 500.000 € in real-estate. The purpose of this paper is to help Casamona, a young Spanish …

Rocket Software is an international software organization, divided into various divisions. One of these divisions is known as LegaSuite, which is the division central to this market research. LegaSuite seeks to increase its market share on the German market and the problem statement central to this strategic …

The development of international relations and the implementation of the Bologna Process have been increasingly given attention by Higher Education Institutions in the Middle East region through the TEMPUS and Erasmus Mundus programmes. The project partners were keen to learn about elements of the Bologna …

Senioren Academie lecture series ‘Healthy Ageing in de praktijk – Van kennis naar toepassing in het dagelijks leven'

The ambition to host mega sports events is (or can be) perfectly justifiable with various arguments. The most persistently used argument is the supposed financial or direct economic gain for the host economy, of which the compelling body of evidence is discouraging. This implies that the justification …

A journalistic memoir of the author when she traced the path of human migration from Africa to Asia, telling stories and revealing the immense diversity of cultures. "I am a donkey" was published in 2013. It is the first book in Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Phuong Mai's series "On the road with a naked heart’’. …

"De verwachting voor de toekomst is dat de klant mondiger wordt en dat de omgeving meer invloed krijgt op het bouwproces." Dit is een opmerking van de heer Straatman (2012) tijdens een lezing over 'nieuwe cultuur in de bouwketen'. De verwachting die de heer Straatman benoemde in zijn lezing heeft te …

Half of the geographical areas in Mainland China are currently facing problems of water shortage and water pollution. Both the Chinese government and its private sectors are striving to find viable solutions for this very issue. However, with the enormous population base in China and its fast-growing …

This chapter addresses two central questions concerning judges and gender: what is the situation of women judges in the Netherlands, and do women judge differently from men?