Regional Resources:

Europa – the official website of the European Union

CIA World Factbook – European Union

EU Delegation to the United States of America

Consilium – the Council of the European Union

The European Central Bank

Euronext Stock Exchanges

Country Profiles and Surveys:

CIA World Factbook

Unclassified data for 250 countries covering economics, politics, foreign relations, and other topics. Updated every two weeks.

Belgium
France
Hungary
Netherlands

US Department of State

List of “Country Desk” telephone numbers

Background Notes

Belgium
France
Hungary
Netherlands

Company Information:

Company Dossier through LexisNexis Academic

Information on public and private international companies; Click on “Create a Company List” tab to create list of international or U.S. companies by industry, geographic area and revenue.

Corporate affiliations

Note: International public and private companies and their subsidiaries worldwide. Create lists by country and industry.

Company News:

Newspapers and Ejournals

BBC Country Profiles – country basics and detailed information about top media outlets.

Belgium
France
Hungary
Netherlands

To search for articles in newspapers, magazines, journals and periodicals go to:

Ejournals

Press Display

Find Business Articles and Data

Books

Check the library catalog for books about your country. Unless otherwise noted, all books are located in Pardee Library. Some books in Pardee Library may be on the New Books Shelf. The link, to the record in the online catalog, provides publication details and availability. See sample keywords below:

Keywords: Netherlands Business, Netherlands Economy, Belgium Business, Belgium economic conditions, France Capitalism, Hungary Business, Hungary Economics, Budapest Business

Jones, Economic adjustment and political transformation in small states, Oxford, 2008. (JC478 .J66, Mugar Library)

Tiberghien, Entrepreneurial states : reforming corporate governance in France, Japan, and Korea, Cornell, 2007. (HD2856 .T53, Pardee Library, 2nd floor)

Romsics, From dictatorship to democracy : the birth of the Third Hungarian Republic, 1988-2001, Atlantic Research and Publications: Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2007. (DB958.3 .R65, Mugar Library)

Cohan, The last tycoons : the secret history of Lazard Frères & Co., Doubleday, 2007. (HG2613 .N54, Pardee Library, 2nd floor)

Seleny, The political economy of state-society relations in Hungary and Poland : from communism to the European Union, Cambridge, 2006. (HN420.5 .A8, Mugar Library)

Trumbull, Consumer capitalism : politics, product markets, and firm strategy in France and Germany, Cornell, 2006. (HC280 .C63, Mugar Library)

Martin & Ross, Euros and Europeans : monetary integration and the European model of society, Cambridge, 2004. (HG925 .E974, Pardee Library, 2nd floor)

Trumbull, Silicon and the State : French innovation policy in the Internet age, Brookings Institution, 2004. (HC280 .I55, Pardee Library, 4th floor)
Dormois, The French economy in the twentieth century, Cambridge, 2004. (HC276 .D673, Mugar Library)

Smith, France in crisis: welfare, inequality, and globalization since 1980, Cambridge, 2004. (HN425.5 .S58, Mugar Library)

Lottman, The Michelin men : driving an empire, Macmillan, 2003. (HD9161.5 .T574, Pardee Library, 4th floor)

Gordon, The French challenge: adapting to globalization, Brookings Institution, 2001. (HF1543 .G67, Pardee Library, 2nd floor)