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The social construction and subjective meaning of attempted suicide TALLINN 2010 TALLINNA ÜLIKOOL

Development of jumping ability and its influence on the profi-ciency

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The academic disputation on the dissertation will be held at the Tallinn University Faculty of Educational Sciences

Until very recently, economic development in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries2 has been seen by most analysts in both academic and pol-icy circles as a largely positive if not a very positive story. For example, at the end of 2005, Business Week ran a cover story titled “Central Europe –

We argue that the process of European economic integration has made a qualitative shift: from a Listian symmetrical economic integration to an integrative and asymmetrical integration. This shift started in the early 1990s with the integration of the former Soviet economies into the economies of Europe and the world as a whole, reached its climax with the Eastern enlargement of the Union in 2004, and now forms the foun-dation of the renewed Lisbon Strategy. This change is measurably threat-ening European welfare: the economic periphery in the first instance, and potentially the core countries as well. Two parallel processes aggravate this development: the timing of the enlargement at this particular phase of the evolving techno-economic paradigm; and the creation of the European Monetary Union along the so-called Maastricht route towards convergence and fiscal stability.

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