Relevant state agencies and migration experts answer this question without any hesitation: yes. Taking into account both the internal social realities and tendencies, as well as external, i.e. international developments of the employment market, and the requirements of various conventions to which Armenia has joined (International Labor Organization, Convention No. 97; European Social Charter of the Council of Europe) this sphere should be regulated by the state...
more >>Mass migration of Armenia's population has started with the independence of the country. Emigration continues till today, though on a smaller scale. According to expert evaluations, the number of people having emigrated from the Republic of Armenia for the past years comprises from 800.000 to one million...
more >>It seems that the challenge "Towards Europe" remains the most comprehensive and urgent issue in today's Armenia. The frequent question "When will Armenia match the European standards?" belongs to the list of questions with no answers. Indeed, how long will it take and when will it be possible to transform the current social-political situation in Armenia and measure it up to the existing vision?...
more >>The experience of any country (regardless of its income level) shows that the most effective means to make smokers quit this fatal habit and prevent the process of enlarging the army of smokers with new recruits, is raising prices on tobacco through the increase of excise tax. Gradual price raise through tax increase has for long become one of the most important directions of long-term state policies of countries having a leading role in anti-tobacco campaigns...
more >>The South Caucasus is irreversibly on the agenda of European politics. This is a reality which the pessimists could have been easily suspicious about not in the very remote past. The reality seems to have changed also in terms of holistic perception of the region. Only a couple of years ago one would desperately brush off the idea that no matter how ardently we try and spare no effort to register progressive achievements, each of our countries would still be destined to "wait for" the others and the benefit to climb the European stairs would be granted through a group visa only...
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This announcement is available only in Armenian.
On March 3, 2021, the first meeting of the GreenDeal Task Force created under the Initiative Lisbon-Vladivostok was held. In the videoconference format, more than twenty authoritative experts in the field of ecology and business from Austria, Armenia, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, France, as well as the representatives of the largest business industry associations supporting the Initiative Lisbon-Vladivostok, discussed common approaches to harmonizing the activities implemented by the EU and the EAEU on the path to sustainable development, including a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by 2050.
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