What began on this island would inspire millions throughout the continent of Europe and across the world.
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For at least the past 300 years, Britain has tried to prevent the emergence of a single dominant power on the continent of Europe.
Something that you might have been able to gather from recent news pieces is that the economy of the continent of Europe is falling apart.
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The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.
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Moreover, the city is known to have given birth to many mythological figures and stories such as Europa, the daughter of the King of Tyre, from which the name of the continent Europe has been taken.
But in some ways Willian epitomizes the current state of flux at the highest level of the game: new money flowing in from the edges of Europe, most of the continent's nobility hunkering down in anticipation of Financial Fair Play, the rest knowing they can pick and choose in what's now a buyer's market of falling transfer prices.
The Council of Europe, a continent-wide talking-shop that is the guardian of many international legal conventions, has a treaty on cybercrime dating from 2001.
Should conflict revive in this most fragile and dangerous part of Europe, the whole continent would suffer.
Their fiscal discipline has served as a model for the rest of Europe, and the continent is hoping that Germany will take the lead in avoiding a financial meltdown.
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From the Pacific Islands to Europe, from the continent of Africa to the countries of Asia, from the Americas to the United Kingdom, media workers and their supporters hold a myriad of events to celebrate the day.
ISET, an alternative-energy institute at the University of Kassel, in Germany, continent-wide power distribution systems in a place like Europe would deal with both of these points.
"I believe it is justified for the European Union to see its work for peace recognised, not only in the unification of the continent, but also outside our Europe, " he said.
Many of Europe's leading industrialists laid out an array of problems facing the continent's manufacturers, from more expensive energy compared with US competitors to the lack of financing, especially in countries such as Italy and Spain for small companies.
Throughout the trip, Benedict has paid tribute to his predecessor, Poland's favorite son, John Paul II, and his goal has been to exhort the inhabitants of Europe's most devoutly Catholic country to show the rest of the continent how to build a society based on Christian values.
Only a handful of countries in eastern Europe were affected, but the sense of insecurity spread right across the continent.
It makes sense for Iberdrola to focus particularly on its home continent, since the European Union wants 12% of Europe's primary energy coming from renewable sources by 2010.
Yet even as the single currency leads inexorably to a genuine single capital market in Europe, the logic of having continent-wide banks to match is coming to seem irresistible.
The sum dwarfs the security budgets of many West African nations and suggests at least one-tenth of the cocaine in Europe reaches the continent through West Africa, the agency estimates.
True, the two Germanies reunited, but Europe as a whole went from a continent of 32 countries to one of 48.
The margins of Europe lend themselves to games about where the continent ends, but they are more than a curiosity.
Germany -- at war with France earlier in the century -- praised Mitterrand as a leader whose vision of a united Europe would continue to shape the continent's future.
As U.S. attention waned, there was a feeling in Washington that a military presence needed to be established to discourage the Soviet Union from meddling in Europe, especially in the western part of the continent.
Many of the continent's top players have become rich and famous in Europe's top leagues, especially in England and France.
Once lodged in that elusive heart of Europe, why should Britain not indeed emerge as the continent's leader, and he as its senior statesman?
The firm has a negligible presence in Europe and derives 95% of its sales from outside the Continent, mainly from Asia.
Robert Buckland, an equity strategist at Citigroup, points out that about 44% of pan-European corporate profits are generated outside Europe (British companies earn 52% of their profits outside the continent).
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Europe's pre-Columbians may not have had evidence of another continent, but plainly some felt that there should be one.
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Dieback was first recorded in eastern Europe in 1992 and spread over two decades to infect most of the continent.
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