Tuesday, 7 October 2008

EU officials say no to unilateral steps on banks
guardian.co.uk - UK
Almunia said the reform, which would need backing from EU states and the European Parliament to become law, would look at the amount of the guarantee, ...
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Europe shows limits in credit crisis response
guardian.co.uk - UK
... requiring legal action against the Irish just as the EU is trying to persuade them to reverse their vote rejecting the Lisbon EU reform treaty. ...
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Public to have more say with 1 million EU signature plan

New EU directive pushes toward replaceable iPhone batteries
Apple Insider - Herndon,VA,USA
Introduced with RoHS, the EU's 2006 Battery Directive updated existing regulation from 1991. It primarily sought to prevent the unnecessary use of toxic ...
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Letters to the Telegraph
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Sir – The root of the credit crisis is the implementation of risk regulations required in EU directives deriving from Basel 2. Advocates of Basel 2 believed ...
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Which rule was worst?
Internatioonal Financial Law Review - London,UK
The European Commission's proposed reforms to the Capital Requirements Directive are "a complete disaster", according to in-house and private practice ...
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How will permission concerns reshape online behavioural tracking?
MyCustomer.com - UK
Now the European Union's advisory body on data protection matters has focused its sights on the subject." Firstly, brands wanted more flexibility in finding ...
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European Parliament (press release) - EU
The introduction of such a system by the reform treaty would make it the first example of direct democracy between several different countries. ...
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Lisbon Treaty: MEPs debate Irish rejection and way forward
Parlamento Europeo - Belgium
The EU must cooperate with the Irish government to address people's concerns and find a suitable way forward for institutional reform, said MEPs in a lively ...
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CIS and Baltic press on Russia
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
(Nashe Mneniye, September 26) The shaky prospects of extending the Russian-Ukrainian cooperation, friendship and partnership agreement (the Big Treaty) for ...
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Ten years of European regional and local policy
New Europe - Brussels,Belgium
Furthermore, once the Treaty of Lisbon comes into force, Europe’s local and regional authorities will no longer need to call for further institutional ...
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Lisbon Treaty - Irish foreign minister set on ratification.
By Daily Referendum(Daily Referendum)
The EU must cooperate with the Irish government to address people's concerns and find a suitable way forward for institutional reform. So said MEPs in a lively Constitutional Affairs Committee debate with Irish Foreign Minister Michael ...
Daily Referendum - http://dailyreferendum.blogspot.com/
Ireland 'needs time' for Lisbon solution
Foreign minister blames “lack of information” for Ireland’s rejection of the EU’s reform treaty.
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EU: Excessive government deficits Ie
By Grahnlaw(Grahnlaw)
For a more detailed view the reader can turn to the unsigned article ‘The Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact’ (European Central Bank, Monthly Bulletin August 2005, pages 59 ─ 73). http://www.ecb.eu/pub/pdf/mobu/mb200508en.pdf ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
Open Europe press summary: 6 October 2008
By David Ben-Ariel(David Ben-Ariel)
The FT suggests that keeping the Commission at its current size is seen by many EU politicians and officials as a price that has to be paid in order to secure Irish approval of the Lisbon Treaty in a second referendum. ...
United States of Europe - http://europeunitedstates.blogspot.com/
Joint Statement with the President of Ukraine
By Shania
The Prime Minister and President agreed on the importance of energy sector reform in Ukraine and looked forward to the start of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the Energy Community Treaty. They also highlighted the importance of ...
Number10.gov.uk - http://www.number10.gov.uk