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Current projects of
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Organisational and Personnel Development

The MTI Europe series Stefan Schnitzler

Managing Director
MTI Europe Ltd.
Europe has the third largest population in the
world after China and India MACHWÜRTH TEAM
International

At least this is true when meas- population of approximately 309

uring the number of inhabitants.
But what exactly do we mean
when we speak of Europe? The
European Union? The Euro-
zone or the geographical Euro-
pe? Total confusion. What was
your first association when you
read Europe?
“Europe is not a place, it is an
idea“…
…this was said by Bernard-
Henry Levy, a French philoso-
pher born in 1948. This indi-
cates that Europe is much more
a historical or a cultural defini-
tion, than a geographical one.
How European do you feel?
Europe as in the subcontinent
Europe reaches from the Urals
to the Atlantic Ocean. Europe
shares a large continent with
Asia (Eurasia). 29% of Eurasia
is European territory. The EU
comprises only 27 states. The
Euro-zone consists only of those
16 countries who have intro-
duced the Euro as their currency
(317 m inhabitants).
The geographical Europe covers
46 states. Europe – in total 700
m people – stretches across
3800 km North to South and
6000 km East to West from the
Ural Mountains to the Atlantic
Ocean (European Mainland).For
comparison: the USA measure
2500 km North to South and
4500 km East to West with a
m people.
Let’s be honest…
…what do we Europeans really
know about our own continent?
Did you know that there are 46
states on European territory?
That urban London produces
the highest gross domestic pro-
duct (GDP) per head leaving
other European regions far be-
hind? In comparison to the Eu-
ropean average of 100 that is
315 points. Who would you
guess ranks second, third and
fourth? Brussels with 234 points,
followed by Luxembourg (213)
and only then ranks the German
metropolis of Hamburg with only
188 points. The ten leading re-
gions do not include Paris, Ber-
lin, Munich, Rome, Istanbul or
Madrid, but they do include
Stockholm, Vienna and the Ital-
ian region Bolzano.
Fascinating.
Germany lies in the heart of
geographical Europe.
Germany accounts for 16.5% of
the population of all 27 EU sta-
tes which has a total population
of 495 m people. The gross do-
mestic product in Europe (EU 27
countries plus non-EU coun-
tries) was 17.6 bn US Dollars in
2007. Approximately 3 bn US
Dollars were produced in Ger-
many. That is the equivalent of
17%, nearly a fifth of the total.
In the 27 EU member states the-
re are 23 official languages. Is
English or German the predomi-
nant language in Europe?
Europe is the home of nearly
100 million people whose first
language is German. 61 million
people are English native
speakers and another 59 million
French and 58 Italian (2003).
How easy it seems in compari-
son for the Americans. In over
50 states the language that eve-
rybody speaks is English.
Compared to the USA the 27
EU states rank no. 1 in terms of
economic performance (GDP
2007). China makes fourth place
after the USA and Japan. Euro-
pean economy is six times big-
ger than that of China
(2005/2007) and about 15-20%
bigger than that of the Ameri-
cans as measured by the GDP.

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Current projects of
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Organisational and Personnel Development
The challenge for service pro-
viders…
…is being able to offer you, our
customers and prospective cli-
ents, a tailor-made range of ser-
vices in all 46 European states.
This also means being able to
cover 23 official languages and
sometimes even two or three
languages per country. Just
think of Switzerland or Belgium
or Ex-Yugoslavia. 32 colleagues
with the Machwürth Team are at
your disposal locally covering
work in their native language
plus speaking at least one other
language. In many cases our
consultants and trainers are pro-
ficient in 2, 4 or more languages
on a level of native speakers. A
team of 9 people supports MTI
Europe in steering all European
activities.
The “EU Team”
Stefan Schnitzler
Managing Director
MTI Europe Ltd.
Ines Majewski
Regional Manager
Europe Süd
Esther Höwelhaus
Project administration
Annette Möhrmann
Marketing-Agent
DACH Countries
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This includes customer care
mostly from our base in Ger-
many as well as local offices
across Europe. In cooperation
with the consultant teams they
acquire, consult, design and
manage projects, regardless of
whether it is a local training,
coaching, Pan European roll-out
of a change process or the facili-
tation of a strategy workshop or
a management conference.
True to the motto: a partner for
Europe with local resources and
an understanding of local cul-
ture.
Don’t you think it is about time to
get to know more about Europe
little by little? In 2010 we will
feature articles presenting our
European colleagues and their
countries. This will include in-
sights into culture, people and
background on each of the
states or regions.
Katalin Mayer
Assistant to
Managing Director
MTI Europe Ltd.
Björn Rühl
Regional Manager
Europe West
Maria Schweiger
Project administration
Dörte Neuburg
Marketing-Agent
DACH Countries
Today we would like to kick our
series off with a visual and geo-
graphical “tour“ of Europe.
Follow this link and “assign“
the more than 40 European
countries their place on the
map.
In order to reward you for your
efforts we have created a little
competition around this.
The three highest-ranking play-
ers who have solved the puzzle
in the less amount of time, will
win a FREE consultant day in a
European location of your
choice.
To participate, please send an
email to k.lippner@mwteam.de
or hit the reply button to this
newsletter mail and tell us your
score and time needed which
will be shown once you com-
plete the puzzle. Have fun in
puzzling over Europe.
MTI
Katharina Swietlik
Project administration