Of the German speaking, Canton Schwyz is a member of the Swiss Confederation. It is located in Central Switzerland and its capital is Schwyz, from which the canton also got…
The Swiss canton of Schaffhausen is known as Schaffusa by its residents. It is one of the German-speaking cantons and is located in the northernmost part of the Switzerland ….
The canton of Solothurn is located in the northwest of the Swiss Confederation. The official language here is German. The capital is called just like the canton of Solothurn. The…
History Densely populated during the Neolithic, it was inhabited since the 4th century (BC) by the Illyrians. In the 3rd century (BC), the Roman Empire included this territory as part of the…
According to Pharmacylib, the different phases of the Paleolithic of Great Britain are known for numerous and important deposits. Human remains (an occipital and two parietals of the same skull…
CULTURE: LANGUAGES According to topb2bwebsites, Belgium has a marked linguistic pluralism. A horizontal line, which passes south of Brussels, divides the northern part, ethnically and linguistically Germanic, from the southern…
Literature in Eastern Swedish, or Finnish, is less rich than that in Finnish. According to estatelearning, the Swedes constitute an absolute minority of the Finnish population and their language was…
PREHISTORY Although the finds are not very abundant, the presence of prehistoric people who settled in the Netherlands since the middle Paleolithic is documented. The gradual retreat of the Pleistocene…
From the top of Borghöjden in Bratislava you can look far, far out over Slovakia. Below, the Danube River flows while heavily loaded trucks thunder across the bridge connecting the…
Education School attendance is compulsory from 6 to 16 years of age. The school system is divided into the voluntary, free public pre-school (École maternelle), the primary school (École primaire,…
Never before have so many people been so affected by natural disasters as in recent decades. More and more people are living more exposed to more extreme weather. The disasters…
4: Causes – why have the disasters increased? The reasons why the number of natural disasters has quadrupled since approx. 1970 is many and complex, and the weight of the…
6: What’s happening in Paris? If we already know how big the emissions cuts will be, then what will the countries negotiate in Paris? It is not decided in advance…
On Monday 30 November, the countries of the world will gather in Paris to try to agree on a new, global climate agreement within two weeks. The prelude to the…
The sum of the efforts is that Norway belongs to the world’s most central suppliers of peace diplomacy of many different kinds. Norway has been involved in attempts to…
Norwegian voters have recently voted in parliamentary elections, and they voted for a change of government. What image does Norway have of the new government when it promotes Norwegian interests…
Off the coast, Norway has access to a gigantic economic zone that extends from the coast and 200 nautical miles straight out to sea, and with the large fishing zones…
6: Foundation for stronger efforts The Paris Agreement thus contains relatively ambitious overall goals, and in this way it gives an important signal that climate work is now on the…
4: A powerful signal When the Paris Agreement was adopted, it was called by many a historic moment in climate work. The low expectations of what kind of agreement the…
The UN climate summit in Paris in December 2015 adopted a new international climate agreement that covers all countries. The agreement is hailed as a historic breakthrough in climate work,…
Security and development have long been two separate fields of international politics. Security was seen as a military issue and handled by military means. Development was left to the aid…
6: War – almost always a threat to development It is thus not necessarily the case that a lack of development leads to a greater risk of civil war, even…
The “Oslo agreement” on a ban on cluster munitions will be signed (ratified) in December. The road to a ban has been long. There has been a debate about what…
6: The agreement Ahead of the negotiations in Dublin, according to CARSWERS.COM, there was great tension about how extensive the agreement would be, and what types of cluster munitions would…
8: To the Balkans, Indonesia, Kosovo In the spring of 1999, Martti Ahtisaari, together with the former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, was asked to lead the work to end…
5: In the former Yugoslavia In 1991, wars broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Ahtisaari was then given the difficult job of leading the UN-appointed working group that was to…
The connection with the fact that the wars of our time are essentially civil wars is clear: In an internal conflict, at least one non-state group is often a party…
Warriors and other serious armed conflicts are today mainly civil wars or other internal conflicts. The typical war between states – as we have known it for hundreds of years…
Architecture According to globalsciencellc, Gothic architectural forms were initially adopted in Austria by the Cistercians based on French models (1st half of the 13th century): in the collegiate church of…
The 2004 presidential elections led to an open power struggle between the government and the opposition, which also revealed the differences between the more pro-Russian southern and eastern regions and…