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This article presents a quantitative examination of how newspaper articles in the UK, France and Italy most commonly frame immigration and migrants. A developing literature on the securitisation of policy and discourse related to migration suggests the prominence of this narrative, but the prevalence of this particular portrayal of migration has not been placed into comparative context through cross-country analysis of the relative prominence of various immigration-related issues. To test the securitisation thesis I tabulate not only security narratives in the press, but also economic ones, comparing the relative frequency of these two broader narratives. The results indicate that it would be premature to speak of a pre-eminent securitised meta-narrative within the European press. I find that overt references to physical threat or crime occur relatively infrequently, with only the mention of the border being more common. Instead, issues with economic implications, such as the labour market, asylum and fiscal costs, exhibit at least equal salience, though the degree to which the press grants attention to specific economic or security issues varies substantially between countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Within the context of global competition for human talent, two policy shifts in favour of the promotion of high-skilled immigration (HSI) were observed in the UK and France during the 2000s. In light of similar policy inputs, this article compares the development and implementation of the British Highly Skilled Immigration Programme between 2002 and 2008 and the French Carte de Competences et Talents (Card of Competences and Talents) from 2006 to 2009. This research explores whether there was an overall convergence across these two European countries' policies towards HSI and if they have conformed to a similar client politics model. Whereas this politics model was identified in the UK, a policy gap was observed in France. This article relates the identified divergences with the political agency of the British and French policymakers, while the conclusions argue that politics trumped policy in the two selected cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research explores two theoretical problems that are deeply connected: the concept of control in corporation's governance and the methodological nationalism implicit in the kind of data sets used in most structural analysis of economic power. As an empirical support four networks are used: interlocking directorate's networks of French and Spanish largest firms and the networks of the same corporations in both countries related by common investors. The consequences of choosing one or another kind of relations - interlocking directorates or common investors- on the national character of nationally selected data are analyzed. It appears that the consideration of networks built using the main shareholders of each firm leads to the blurring of the initial national selection of the corporations. And also, challenges standing ideas on the concept of control of corporation's activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses various issues related to the end of the military draft and mass army in Western Europe. The revolutionary regime in France issued a decree in 1793 that made it compulsory for every citizen to do military service. The decree was followed by other nations too. The fast-developing societies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America were characterized by the military organizations full mass armies. However, France announced on May 28, 1996 about the abolition of the mass army in its country. It is interesting to explore whether this means the end of the mass army based on universal conscription in Europe.

The author offers his observation on the situation of countries in Western Europe which he visited in 1948 such as Great Britain, France and Italy. The British government has released a framework for the British democratic socialism, which was advocated by the Labor Party. In France, he witnessed the economic problem, which resulted in the political crisis in the country. Italy has successfully concluded its elections in April.