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Relations between China and Europe have traveled a fluctuant course since 1949. To a significant extent, China's relations with both Eastern and Western Europe have been a function of its broader pattern of relations with the Soviet Union and the United States. Yet, in both cases, independent factors have served to sustain and strain ties. This article examines the course and dynamics of these relationships over the past four decades. Sino-European relations today are businesslike yet fragile—a fragility that the receding Cold War, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, and the West European common market of 1992 will all serve to intensify.

On August 3, 1949 Luxembourg, Norway and Italy deposited their instruments of ratification, bringing the total number of ratifications to the seven necessary to bring the Statute of the Council of Europe into force. The United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland had already ratified the statute.

This chapter examines constructs related to students' attitudes toward civic society and systems (i.e., students' attitudes toward European cooperation and the European Union, and students' perceptions of Europe in the future). It also examines a construct related to students' attitudes toward civic identities (i.e., students' perceptions of their own individual future) (Schulz, Ainley, Fraillon, Losito, & Agrusti, 2016).

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By questioning the ways in which a supra-national European identity can be created in an environment of globalization, this article starts with the thesis that this concept faces problems which must be resolved first and foremost at the national level. By problematizing multiculturalism as a "utopian theory" which does not solve any problems at the practical level, and by viewing interculturalism as a potential danger to "smaller" cultures, this article identifies what it is that hinders the possible acceptance of the idea of a Europe without borders by analyzing plays by Goran Stefanovski. In four of his plays, Euralien, Hotel Europa, Ex-Yu, and Goce, Stefanovski criticizes Western Europe, on the one hand, for constructing a problematic Other, imposing a visa regime, and contributing to its marginalization, and the Balkans on the other, for mythologizing its nationally-romanticized narrative. The paper sheds light on the fact that the acceptance of a common (shared) European identity, a necessity which propagates itself amidst conditions of globalization, is dependent on the ways in which Europe will resolve its problems, such as the marginalization of the Other, way of thinking in binary oppositions, like old/new Europe, rich/poor Europe, and especially (talking about Balkan countries) the phrase South-East Balkan.

Consultative Assembly The first part of the eighth ordinary session of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe was held in Strasbourg from April 16 to 21, 1956, under the presidency of Mr. Fėrnand Dehousee (Belgium, Socialist). The Council welcomed the representatives of Austria, which had become a full member.