Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe

Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-279

  Favell, Adrian ^a  

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EID: 84889484083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712818     Document Type: Book

References (18)

1. One example is the analysis "Measuring globalization" by A. T. Kearney Inc. published by the journal Foreign Policy in 2001.
2. The chapters on London draw on material originally published in The Human Face of Global Mobility, edited by Michael Peter Smith and Adrian Favell, copyright 2006, by Transaction Publishers. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
3. According to Eurostat NUTS2 data (2007), inner London in fact boasts a regional GDP per capita that is 300 percent of the EU27 regional average.
4. See the website of the Urban Audit, "Assessing the quality of life in Europe's cities", a section of the EU DG for Regional Policy: www.ec.europa.eu/ regional_policy/urban2/urban/audit/index.html.
5. Their motto is: "La liberté trouve toujours son chemin". See their website: www.francelibre.org. See also the website: www.franceinlondon.com.
6. A report by the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Cross-Border Mobility of Public Sector Workers (Vienna 2006), explores the barriers that persist in this large employment sector across Europe.
7. Apart from one article on German eurocrats, the foreign European population in Brussels-half the total of foreigners-was wholly ignored in materials celebrating diversity and multiculturalism at the festival.
8. Norway is not a member state of the EU, but young Norwegians enjoy free movement rights and educational opportunities within the rest of Europe via association agreements with the EU.
9. Documented in a report by the Brussels tourist office, Étude sur les comportements culturels, de loisirs et touristiques des résidents étrangers (2000).
10. The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001), p. 157.
11. Interview with Annelore Isaac, economic advisor, ECOBRU (April 2001).
12. Bulletin produce a very useful supplement on schools in Brussels annually.
13. The HRM survey by Expat magazine in Amsterdam finds that while 65 percent of expats are married, only 28 percent of them have children.
14. See "The geography of cool", The Economist, April 15, 2000, pp. 11-13.
15. Out of a population of around 72,000, about 25 percent are EU15 foreigners. Source: Ixelles commune population statistics.
16. Interview with Leo Verhoeven, expat banking manager, KBC bank (May 2001).
17. Interview with Sabine De Clerck, estate agent, Immo Look, Uccle (May 2001).
18. The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001), p. 76.