Introduction
Australia’s first recorded links with Europe back date to Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, English and French explorers of the 17th century. The British settlements of Australia in the year 1788 marked the beginning of a steady tributary of Europeans enthusiasm to counterfeit new lives in the great southern continent. A squirt of immigration as a result of the Second World War saw Europe and Australia develop boarder stronger cultural and social kinships underscored by common values of democracy.
Union between the Australian and European Union
Currently the Australian and European Union remain natural economic, political and social partners. Due to significant change in the nature of relationship from colonial era especially from 1973 when the United Kingdom unified with European community as it was known by then, the partnership in economy has remained as the mainstay of the relationship. According to the Ex European Vice president Sir Brittan, he remarked that the thumping heart of their relationship was to remain economic.
The European Union is the largest partner in economic when consideration of trade in merchandise goods, investments and services is made. Politically, the Australia and European Union have the same democratic parliamentary government systems. They took part in multilateral foral like the United Nations where they share common political issues of the day (Bishop 1952, pg 56).
The consultations of ministries between the Australia and European Commission began in 1976 which covered a wide range of aspects. They originated from talks on bilateral trades aspects to cover the multilateral matters of trade and international relations, industrial cooperation, environmental protection, science and technology, development aid programs, educational and training, consumer policy and competition.
Although there is a tension existing in specific areas like the environment and agriculture, the sometimes harsh arguments over the Europeans Union’s common policy in agriculture have been much associated with significant CPA reforms of the early 90s and the European Union’s continuous increasing commitment to the world trade liberalization. An Australian and European Union declaration which was adopted in June 1997 has led to facilitation of reinvigorated bilateral relationship. Due to strong downturn in Asia and Australian terms of trade, following the Australia’s northern neighbor’s turbulence, there has been rediscovery of the significance of European’s Union dimensions (Bishop 1952, pg 103).
When these principles are related with the everyday life, a positive impact has been achieved. This is because some mandatory issues like trade between different countries have been facilitated. After ministerial consultations between European and Australian states, issues of Industrial Corporation were established to greatly assist the countries which lacked certain materials to have easy acquisition of same materials from their colloquies. Aid programs projects were also set where by the economically pressed countries could benefit from the wealthy nations. Also environmental protection issue was addressed to which was of very great significance to everyday life.
This is because every country treated it self as a beneficiary of the environment. As a result, every nation had a responsibility of environmental conservation hence limitation of environmental pollution. Education and training were other aspects addressed in the ministerial consultations. This was very beneficial in every day’s life because citizens from one state could seek educational facilities from another state. Agriculture which is the core economic activities from most of the countries was also addressed. There was a freedom for a certain country to acquire the agricultural products from another state thus boosting the agricultural sector.
The Australia and European countries also share common interests in a wider geo-political ground. Still the memory of losing many young people in the two world wars remains a reminder that moves to provide unthinkable welfare in European ground which is also of vital concern to the Australia. Initiatives like the enlargement of the European Union to include nations of central and east Europe, Russia’s increased involvement in the European common foreign and security policies are all welcomed approvingly by Australia.
This concern of public relations where a certain country is concerned about the ill events of another country impacts everyday life. This is because when a certain nation is in a trouble for instance politically like the civil wars, economically constrained countries like drought disasters, the neighbor countries would willingly assist in such calamities.
Constructive engagement with other countries
In the Pacific region of Asia, European Union and Australia share much of respects; constructive engagement with China, cooperative assistance operations in the highlands of pacific, peaceful outcome to the East Timor troubles and stability in Indonesia and re-booting of the South East Asia economies. The combined effort in peace restoration by the associate nations has greatly impacted every day’s life because if it were not for that, most of the countries would have civil wars which would result to violation of international human rights.
The political relation between United Kingdom and Canada are bound by culture, history the common wealth and their extensive family ties (Seligson 1979, pg 18). United Kingdom is the third largest exporting market worldwide and the second largest tourism source. Through its historical links, it also acts as an important market for Canadian public and private borrowing, and the favored entry for the Canadian business in to the European Union through this link in trade, the public relations has created a conducive environment of business from one state to another. Tourism trade among other forms of trades has generated income to the country thus boosting the states economy.
The United Kingdom acts as precious interlocutor for Canada on the foreign policy issues. Britain and Canada works jointly in NATO, the Common Wealth and the United Nations on aspects like democracy promotions, the broad human security issues and human rights. Britain supported Canada’s initiative in achievement of treaty which led to the abolition of anti personal land mines. This issue was very important in establishing the international consensus which eventually succeeded.
Defense relations are particularly very close with many mutual ventures in training, operations and significance defense procurement in all directions. In everyday life every one needs security for both property and life. This is due to increased incidences of criminal activities all over the world due to factors like unemployment, high poverty rates among other factors. The political relations have provided defense relations in turn where by the operations in defense and training are carried on collectively (Seligson 1979, pg 58). Through this case, one state can easily learn new defense strategies and mechanisms from another state thus improvement of technology.
In June 1997, Chrétien who was the prime minister and Blair discussed and signed a joint declaration reaffirming the potency of the bilateral relationship and also pointed it towards the future. Such relationship intensified cooperation and contacts in many sectors. This initiative succeeded with agreements in research use of internet in education, heritage civil exchange services and in the private sector where both countries aerospace firms and industries develop a cooperate framework which is inspired by the joint declaration. As a result, new types of cooperation continue to evolve.
The public relationship played an important role in every day’s life because some sectors like internet education are not common to all countries. When this joint declaration was signed, people could further in studies while at their home countries. This was facilitated by use of new technology of internet application in technology. Also other fields like research were facilitated because researchers could travel to other countries to conduct the exercise without any restrictions.
More so, civil service exchanges were available. This helped in that; experts would be employed in other countries where there is a shortage of such services to assist in specific areas. In turn, this crease a positive impact in everyday life because services are delivered where needed at the right time by the government. For instance, in case of outbreak of a certain killer disease, solution would be arrived at quickly through seeking assistance from well equipped nations to handle the problem.
After the May 1997 election, a new era in United Kingdom politics was opened (Trommier 1990, pg 76). Tony Blair’s labor party won by positioning new labor as a party of moderation, a centrist foreign party, committed to economic prosperity and reform of the United Kingdom political system. Immediately, the government delivered its promise to devolve power to Wales and Scotland where the modern parliament in the case Assembly and Scotland in Cardiff are currently operating. When this case is linked with everyday life, it positively impacted the economic prosperity because of addressing the weak economic countries and carry out the necessary reforms. It also improved the political systems in the associated countries.
References
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Seligson M, (1979). Politics and the Poor – Vol. 2. New York.