Tuesday, 14 October 2008



Learning the language of global compliance
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
This directive was adopted in 1995 and has been enforced since 1998 for all countries in the European Union. It lays out eight principles of good practice, ...
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"A disaster waiting to happen"
By Richard(Richard)
In the business – and this might sound odd – but we needed good regulation, properly applied. The logic is unassailable. If you have an operation which is doing its bit, spending the money on maintaining "backroom" standards, ...
EU Referendum - http://eureferendum2.blogspot.com/
Bankex Surges in India with Chetia Assurances as Global Economy is ...
By Palash(Palash Biswas)
"This is indeed a common action that we are taking," French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the European Union's rotating presidency, said in announcing the accord at the Elysee Palace. The agreement was only a framework ...
nandigramunited - http://nandigramunited.blogspot.com/

EU IPRED1 directive to be enforced in Sweden
By Daniel Nyström
The European Court of Justice was asked to interpret a mesh of overlapping EU Community laws and answer the question: does European community law require EU Member States that are implementing this suite of EU directives to impose an ...
ICMPECHO - http://www.icmpecho.com 

Be patient with Irish 'No' to Lisbon, EU states told
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
... that there is little prospect that other states will agree to abandon the treaty after investing seven years in negotiations on how to reform the union. ...
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EU to use “all available instruments" to support Hungary in these ...
Portfolio - Budapest,Hungary
“In particular, the EU stands ready to use all tools available in accordance with the Treaty to complement possible IMF financial assistance."
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Ireland’s “no:” emphasise EU as a “citizens’ union”
New Europe - Brussels,Belgium
It would be easy for politicians simply to blame voters for saying “no, nej, nee and non” in referendums held on successive proposals for EU reform. ...
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EU split on Kosovo independence
ISN - Zurich,Switzerland
The adoption of institutional reform as embodied in the Lisbon treaty might go some way in repairing the EU's faulty design by creating a "European foreign ...
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Taiwan needs change in parliamentary majority
eTaiwan News - Taiwan
However, the proposed "European Citizen Initiative" which is contained in the proposed Treaty of Lisbon is a very first step. The ECI will be only a kind of ...
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This WEEK in the European Union
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
EU leaders will also hear a report on the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. Dublin has however indicated that it will not yet propose a ...
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Lithuania's Center-Right Set For Election Win
Deutsche Welle - Germany
EU officials have already dismissed these hopes as "dreaming," saying that the bloc was "ready to help Lithuania, but not to breach the treaty. ...
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MEP: 'Radical' electoral reform 'badly needed' for 2014
EurActiv - Brussels,Belgium
Duff accepted that in order to be adopted, the system would require unanimity in the European Council as well as treaty changes. ...
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EU: Monetary policy IIb ECB and prudential supervision
By Grahnlaw(Grahnlaw)
Has European Community (European Union) monetary policy, based on the single currency (euro), advanced during the protracted treaty reform process since the 2001 Treaty of Nice? In particular, given the present financial turmoil, ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
IP Think Tank Global Week in Review - General Edition - Friday, 10 ...
By duncan@duncanbucknell.com (Duncan Bucknell)
Senators Specter and Leahy express concern about ACTA Treaty (Techdirt) (Intellectual Property Watch) (IP Justice) (Michael Geist) (Public Knowledge) (Intellectual Property Watch). Commerce Department cites questionable stats, ...
Duncan Bucknell's IP Think Tank(tm) - http://duncanbucknell.com/blog
Why Brownism does not equal anti-capitalismo
By Derek Wall(Derek Wall)
Indeed, the free market “reforms” of the past twenty years have always been accompanied by re-regulation, designed more often than not to “lock in” neoliberal policy changes (the EU’s Maastricht Treaty is a case in point, ...
Another Green World - http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/
What will the US foreign policy be tomorrow ?
By Arsenio A. Lembert Jr.(Arsenio A. Lembert Jr.)
The antidemocratic character of the Five is shown clearly on page 139 : « We are not formulating proposals for the reform of the EU in such detail as we have for NATO for two reasons : first, a new 'smooth' treaty, that has just ...
EndrTimes - http://endrtimes.blogspot.com/
Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union EuropeNews ...
By Britannia Radio(Britannia Radio)
Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union EuropeNews - Helsingør,Denmark National parliaments and citizens lose power with every EU treaty, for they no longer have the final say in the policy areas concerned. ...
Britannia Radio - http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/

Rating agencies face downgrade
Business Spectator - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Under the proposed EU directive, ratings agencies would have to be authorised to operate in Europe with supervision by either a national regulatory body or ...
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