Friday, 29 August 2008

BBC Proms told to quieten down under health and safety rules
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The moves are required under an EU directive, which was passed in April this year, that means the BBC is responsible for making sure performers are not ...
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SEC Proposes Five-Year 'Roadmap' to International Accounting Standards
TMCnet - USA
Meanwhile, those developments have operated in parallel with development of the European Union's Solvency II directive as well as proposed joint projects ...
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Telecoms package: more competition and improved consumer rights
European Parliament (press release) - EU
... from 2002 by amending five existing directives and one regulation, and by establishing a new European body of national telecommunications regulators. ...
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Bulgaria will support fully the European Commission in the ...
ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
Bulgaria's economic priorities, the EU energy policy as well as topical international issues were highlighted during the talks. ...
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UK: Foreign Secretary David Miliband speech in Ukraine
ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
Ukrainian leaders have spoken of their aspiration to see their country one day as a member of the EU. Article 49 of the EU Treaty gives all European ...
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Irish seek Denmark's advice on EU treaty opt-outs: report
AFP -
Ireland sent shockwaves through the European Union in June when 53 percent of Irish voters rejected the key reform treaty, in the only popular vote on the ...
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Reply to Trojan Taco

By nobody@flickr.com (corn1971)
The Committee of the European Green Party has published its position paper on the EU Reform Treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty. In this paper, the EGP Committee outlines what it sees as the positive and negative aspects of the ...
US Politics and the World - http://www.flickr.com/groups/worldpolitics/

The EU, Islam And Turkey.......
By KGS(KGS)
-EU institutions see the population as its greatest enemy (see the undesired outcome of the vote on the Reform Treaty in Ireland). -All arguments in favor are a distortion of the facts: --Turkey reconciles Islam and democracy and is a ...
Tundra Tabloids....... - http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/

It takes a crisis
By Helen(Richard)
To sum up, the structures and institutions of the CFSP have been developing, treaty by treaty, Council by Council with cheerleaders like the Centre for European Reform's director Charles Grant telling us that Europe must play a stronger ...
EU Referendum - http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/

This is what is going to happen in Ireland
By Open Europe blog team(Open Europe blog team)
If Ireland proceeds down the road of seeking opt-outs from the treaty on issues like defence and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which provoked such controversy during the referendum campaign, the approval of all 26 EU partners would ...
Open Europe blog - http://openeuropeblog.blogspot.com/

Open Europe press summary - 28 August 2008
By David Ben-Ariel(David Ben-Ariel)
In 1992, the Danish government responded to the rejection of the Maastricht Treaty by coming up with a proposal to opt out of four key areas of EU activity - the euro, defence, justice and common EU citizenship. ...
United States of Europe - http://europeunitedstates.blogspot.com/