The French-American Relationship, its Impact on the UN and the Reshaping of International Intervention 1990-2011

The relationship between the us and France has profoundly affected the process of international intervention, use of force and humanitarian actions in the conflicts across the world since 1990. Military interventions and decision making in international affairs has been the result of the balance of powers inside the UN Security Council from the end of the Cold War onwards. From the peak of 9/11 to the low of the Iraq war the French-American relations have constantly kept the international agenda alive. With the changes in both the US and French administrations in the past 4 years, with the overall EU dynamic, as well as with the developments in MENA (Middle East-North Africa) in recent months, the interaction between those two main actors of the trans-Atlantic partnership, has gained new dimensions. The present paper attempts to analyze the consequences of the French-American relations of the past 2 decades on the UN system and on the legitimacy of international interventions

CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMICAL CRISIS ON EUROPEAN UNION’S COHESION POLICY

The current global economic crisis is a major challenge for the European Union and requires a rapid response to counter the impacts on the whole economy. On of the measure take to the level of the European Union was accelerating investment project. With a financial envelope of over €350 billion for the period 2007-2013, cohesion policy provides considerable support to public investment by the EU's Member States and regions, The paper aim is to analyses the necessary measure takes in order to speed up the implementation of European Union cohesion policy and to help state tackle the challenge brought by the global economic crisis.cohesion policy, convergence, regional competitiveness, employment, economical crisis

POLLUTION’S IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF DRINKING WATER

Water is essential for life and the way we use water in our activity has a direct impact on the environment. The Report of the Public Health Institute on drinking water quality from urban localities highlighted that the total population potentially exposed to the risk, taking into consideration the age of the distribution networks, water source quality and parameters, is estimated to be about 9.8 million inhabitants in urban areas. The paper analyses the main factors that affect the quality of drinking water, in the conditions than 100 million people in the European region still do not have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation and the quality of the water supply and sanitation services has deteriorated continuously over the past 15 years, with the rural population being most affected.nitrate contamination, leakage, drinking water, wastewater treatment

AN APLICATION FOR THE SELECTION AND SIZING OF CONTROL VALVE FOR CONTROL LOOP

The paper presents the research of the author in developing an application for sizing and selection of control valves for typical process control applications. The proper sizing, selection, installation, and maintenance of control valve are all significant to obtain precise control performance. The paper has three parts. The first part describes the steps necessary to size and selection control valve based on the specific standards. The second part is destined to present the application developed by the author using Python programming language. In the last part, the author has presented and analyzed the numerical results of selection control valve using data from a real process