Sentences with word «microstate»

Though VPE may be the first German bank to move into cryptocurrency trading, the first European bank to do so was Bank Frick, in the German - speaking microstate of Liechtenstein.
Crown Prince Alois of German - speaking Central European landlocked microstate Liechtenstein told CNBC that the family, of which his father the Prince Hans Adam II technically remains in power but with whom for all intents and purposes power resides, is exploring other asset classes, including bitcoin, to fix their wealth woes.
Some people mistakenly think this is what Liechtenstein - a tiny 25 kilometre long microstate with a population of 37,000 - uses to block free movement, but in actual fact they have a separate treaty provision which they negotiated at the time of their ascension to the EEA and which is anyway mostly about refugees.
Also known as the «Most Serene Republic of San Marino,» the world's fifth smallest nation is an enclaved microstate completely surrounded by Italy.
The microstate is merely a state that happens to be to some extent an artifact made in the laboratory, but it is still there.
For example consider the Republic of China (ROC) and the People's Republic of China (PRC); The Principality of Monaco - «a sovereign city - state, country and microstate»; Vatican city; The European Union; etc etc..
The recipe for this typically winter cake of San Marino origins, a microstate surrounded by Italy, was traditionally prepared by locals in a fireplace in a copper pot and served especially on holidays or Sundays.
26 Feb 2018, 12:25 am Comment: What can Turkey, Switzerland, and the microstate of Andorra teach us about the EU customs union?
It's true that the Dominator is the original Bentley SUV, but the Bentayga is the first one designed and produced for motorists who do not preside over a microstate.
Made up of seven valleys, Andorra is a microstate and a principality on the border of Spain and France where residents of the two countries flock to take advantage of this tax - free haven and the clean air.
If you want to visit these microstates while using a Eurail pass here is how to get to each one.
First up on the Italian road trip, a destination I'd always wanted to visit — the microstate of San Marino.
When I say country I'm talking about the microstates.
With just over 30,000 citizens crammed in to a microstate of just two square kilometres, it's a wonder that Monaco can even make room for the upper class tourists which provides much of its income.
Of course, Velasco et al. say a spontaneous lapse - rate rise of that size won't happen at equilibrium, because the microstates that exhibit a nearly - zero temperature lapse rate are many times as numerous as those that exhibit temperature lapse rates of the same order of magnitude as the dry adiabatic lapse rate.
Blockchain tech could be used to make the microstate «more efficient in the way it's administered,» he noted.
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