While the debates in Europe are all about budget cutting, bailouts, austerity programmes, rules, sanctions, one doesn't hear much about real reforms aimed at generating gowth. The lack of growth is what got Europe with debt trouble in the first place. Since the inception of the euro, the eurozone has averaged an annual GDP growth rate of 1.5%. In the second quarter of this year, France the second largest economy in the eurozone after Geermany recorded zero growth.

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The lessons here below are extracted from a report prepared by The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2004.

The TNC needs to create an optimal reconstruction effort, one that will delineate precisely the policies, laws, institutions, practices and individuals that will determine the context in which Libya’s economic activity takes place. An important question for the TNC is to organize and structure the reconstruction assistance. Does it have the capabilities and the resources (human, financial, technical) to do so??

As European companies, namely from France, Italy, Britain and Germany are rushing to Libya to get a slice of the reconstruction pie and sign up contracts with the TNC, a new Association under the acronym EUROCHAM-LIBYA (European Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Libya) is currently in the making in order to provide a strong coordinated body for Libyan Pan-European cooperation at the non-governmental level.

The economic, social, and political challenges in the aftermath of the conflict and the removal of Qadhafi are enormous.

At the outbreak of the financial crisis, a consensus existed that the correct way to spur economic growth was through massive government intervention to prop up sagging demand- A Keynesian approach. However, the Greek debt crisis and continuing concerns that sovereign debt defaulst could spark throughout the eurozone have struck fear and in response European governments are now moving into fiscal retrenchment which is NOT the solution.

This article was written by Michael Schuman  a correspondent at TIME

“Anyone who thinks Europe has solved its debt crisis is deluding themselves.

Ms. Sofia Bobak currently serving as Counsellor to the European Commission and Chief Administrator of Protocol at the Embassy of Belize in Brussels has been approved to join AALEP.

For Europe to count it must adapt to a world where its importance has become relative. Economic power and economic opportunities have now shifted to the countries of the East and South to the emerging powers of Brazil, India, China and other parts of Asia.

Cyprus lies on an axis of movement, both north-south and east-west. It stands at the crossroads of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. It is, therefore hardly surprising that throughout history the major powers in the region have taken an interest in controlling and settling the island. Its strategic position has always ensured that Cyprus has played a key role in history, but it has also resulted in the island becoming a victim of others’ power politics.