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TURKEY!!!

Country Name:
Turkey

Year Founded:
117 BC

Population:
71,517,100

Primary Language:
Turkish

Ethnic Make-up:
Turkish

Political System:
Parliamentary Republic

Year Entered the European Union:
1992

Representative of the European Union (include party):
President of the Republic

Type of Economy:
quasi-statist

Currency:
Turkish Lira

Current Exchange rate for American Currency:
1 USD = 1.65 Turkish Lira

GDP:
$798.863 billion

Percentage of Trade within the European Union:
59% of exports and 52% of imports

Unemployment Rate:
10.3%

Chief Exports:
Automotive Industry

Key Imports:
Natural Gas and Crude oil.

Major Religions:
Islam

Surrounding Countries:
Bulgaria to the northwest;Greece to the west;Georgia to the northeast;Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhichevan)and Iran to the east;and Iraq and Syria to the southeast.The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south;the Aegean Sea and Archipelago are to the west;and the Black Sea is to the north.

Literacy Rate:
95.3%

One Interesting Fact:
Surprisinlgy, Turkey is not a bird. (Just kidding) Due to its strategic location astride two continents,Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern andWestern tradition.

Italy(Repubblica Italiana)

• Year Founded: republic of italy was founded in 1946 and the kingdom of italy was created in 1861
• Population: 58,751,711 people according to the latest census.
• Primary Language: Officially Italian; others include: German, French,
  Slovene.
• Political system: parliamentary, democratic Republic and of a multi-party system.
• Year Entered the European Union:1957

• Representative of the European Union (include party):North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Type of Economy: industrial country
• Currency: The currency in Italy is the Euro
• GDP:
  

  	Total	$1,787 trillion
  -	Per capita	$30,365

• Unemployment Rate: 6.20 %
• Chief Exports: Engineering products, textiles, clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals, food, beverages, tobacco, minerals, non-ferrous metals.
• Key Imports:Engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals, non-ferrous metals, textiles, clothing, food, beverages, tobacco.
• Major Religions: 90% belong to Roman 10% are Protestant or Jewish
• Surrounding Countries: Monaco, France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.
• Literacy Rate: 98.4

· Country Name: Denmark

· Year Founded: Around 980 by Harold Bluetooth

· Population: 5,500,510

· Primary Language: Danish

· Ethnic Make-up: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali

· Political System: constitutional monarchy

· Year Entered the European Union: They joined in 1973

· Representative of the European Union (include party): Michael MATTHIESSEN (can’t find the party)

· Type of Economy: Free-Market Capitalist System

· Currency: Danish Krone

· Current Exchange rate for American Currency: 1 US Dollar = 5.75 Danish Krones

· GDP: Total- $303.519 billion
Per Capita - $55,207

· Percentage of Trade within the European Union: European Union markets account for 70% of total exports with Denmark.

· Unemployment Rate: 2%

· Chief Exports: butter, pork, eggs, beef, horses, hides, and skins.

· Key Imports:
Machinery and transport – 26%
Chemical products - 13%
Foodstuff, live animals – 15%
Fuels and lubricants – 10%

· Major Religions: Evangelical Lutheran, Christianity, Muslim

· Surrounding Countries: Germany in the south and Sweden and Norway in the North

· Literacy Rate: 99% in Males and Females, people from 15 can read.

· One Interesting Fact: The Faroes Islands used to be from Norway, but they lost ownership to Denmark after the King of Norway lost drunken in a game against the King of Denmark

The united kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning Great Britain, the northeast part of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.

The United Kingdom is a unitary state consisting of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The UK is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. The UK is a developed country, with the fifth (nominal GDP) or sixth (PPP) largest economy in the world. In 2007 the estimate on the GDP was of $2.23 trillion.

On 1 May 1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the political union of the Kingdom of England (which included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland. This event was the result of the Treaty of Union that was agreed on 22 July 1706

Some of the main languages they speak in the UK are English, Irish, Ulster Scots, Scottish Gaelic , Scots, Welsh, Cornish.

The UK is conformed of the following ethnic partys; 85.7% White British, 1.2% Irish, 5.3% White Other, 1.8% Indian, 1.3% Pakistani, 0.5% Bangladeshi, 2.0% Black, 1.2% Mixed Race, 0.4% East Asian, 0.4% Others.

2007 sensus estimate around 60,975,000 people living in the UK, and its currency is the Pound sterling, worth 1.4705 U.S. dollars.

Christianity is the major religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and then Judaism in terms of number of adherents.

The UK economy is made up of the economies of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Based on market exchange rates, the United Kingdom is today the fifth largest economy in the world and the second largest in Europe after Germany.
The Industrial Revolution started in the United Kingdom with an initial concentration on heavy industries such as shipbuildin, coal mining, steel production, and textiles.

Kim Darroch is the UK's Permanent Representative. He has overall responsibility for the work of UKRep and sits in the UK seat in the Committee of Permanent Representatives a.k.a COREPER II or Coreper. This focuses mainly on the issues covered in European Councils and in the General Affairs, ECOFIN, Budget, Justice and Home Affairs, and Development Councils.

Year of EU entry: 1973

Literacy rate: 99.0 %

The unemployment rate: Rose to 6.5% - up 0.5% over the quarter and 1.3% on last year.

Mayor imports of the uk

Pharmaceutical preparations … US$3.8 billion (8.3% of British imports from U.S., up 186.7% from 2005)
Non-monetary gold … $2.9 billion (6.4%, up 186.7%)
Civilian aircraft engines … $2.4 billion (5.3%, up 6.4%)
Computer accessories … $2 billion (4.4%, down 4.3%)
Civilian aircraft parts … $1.7 billion (3.8%, up 11.6%)
Precious metals other than gold … $1.5 billion (3.3%, up 175.3%)
Collectibles (e.g. artwork, antiques, stamps) … $1.4 billion (3.1%, up 12.2%)
Telecommunications equipment … $1.4 billion (3%, up 6.6%)
Minimum value shipments … $1.3 billion (2.8%, up 22.3%)
Medicinal equipment … $1.2 billion (2.6%, up 11.1%)

Mayor UK exports

Medicinal, dental & pharmaceutical preparations …US$8.2 billion (15.3% of Britain to U.S. exports, up 41.8% from 2005)
New & used passenger cars … $5 billion (9.3%, down 12.5%)
Other petroleum products … $3.6 billion (6.8%, up 22.7%)
Crude oil … $2.9 billion (5.5%, down 37.2%)
Civilian aircraft engines … $2.3 billion (4.4%, up 18%)
Goods returned to U.S. then reimported … $2.1 billion (4%, down 0.9%)
Collectibles (e.g. artwork, antiques, stamps) … $1.6 billion (2.9%, up 13.2%)
Materials handling equipment … $1.24 billion (2.3%, up 36.1%)
Precious metals other than gold … $1.237 billion (2.3%, up 36.1%)
Alcoholic beverages other than wine … $1.2 billion (2.2%, up 11.8%)

The UK was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries,but the economic cost of two world wars and the decline of its empire in the latter half of the 20th century diminished its leading role in global affairs.

Spain

Spain

It’s Oficial name is “Reino de España”.It was founded during the 15th century, joining the European Union in 1986.
It has an estimate population of 46,157,822 people, being the official language Spanish, with Aranese, Basque and Valencian (Catalan) as secondary or regional Languages.
Ethnic groups living in Spain are 88.7% Spanish, and 11.3% are Romanian, Moroccan, Colombian and Ecuadorian.
Spain has a Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy, wich mean they have a democracy and at the same time, they have a “king”.

Spain uses the Euro as currency, for belonging to the European Union.

An Euro equals $1.3866,on january 2009. Unemployment stood at 7.6% in October 2006, a rate that compares favorably to many other European countries, and which is a marked improvement over rates that exceeded 20% in the early 1990s.

They export machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods mostly to France 18.8%, Germany 10.8%, Portugal 8.6%, Italy 8.5%, UK 7.6%, US 4.2%, in 2007.

Its imports are machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semifinished goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, measuring and medical control instruments. Spaniards have a literacy rate of 99.0%, standing at place 17 worldwide, Cuba being number 1.
One interesting fact about Spain: Spain still uses the monarchy, but the "king" has no real purpose or responsability related to the functions of burocracy in the country.