International rankings are one of the consequences of the implementation of the Organic Law, relative to the budget laws (LOLF), the launch of the Lisbon process and the listing of indicators for international comparison provided by the Observatoire desSciences et Techniques.
Dana Diminescu, of France's Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, recently discovered that 11 villages in the Oas region of northern Romania, a poor farming area of about 70, 000 people, had generated a regular pattern of illegal migrants to Paris, almost all of whom eventually went back home.
French acronym for Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, AIESEC today operates in areas that transcend the confines of its original French full-form.