Wednesday, 18 March 2009

eu reform treaty

Commissioner backs EU enlargement in Balkans
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
Mr Rehn said the economic crisis and efforts to ratify the Lisbon Treaty should not be a distraction from the enlargement efforts. “The EU is able to handle ...
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Merkel says "No Enlargement before Consolidation!"
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
Recently, in the EU Parliament's Report, Turkey was criticized for the slow down in the reform process. On the other hand, some EU member states such as UK ...
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China: Importers need to share blame for emissions
The Associated Press
Li directs the climate change department at the National Development and Reform Commission and was in Washington, along with negotiators from other ...
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Mandate Extension for the Commission? « European Union Law
By Вихър Георгиев
EurActiv reports that the mandate of the present European Commission will most likely be extended, to manage the outcome of the possible second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The idea is that should the Irish vote ‘yes’, ...
European Union Law - http://eulaw.wordpress.com/
The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy: How It Threatens ...
By The Heritage Foundation - Sally McNamara
[44]The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee reported in October 2007 that "Taken as a whole, the Reform Treaty produces a general framework which is substantially equivalent to the Constitutional Treaty." See "European Union ...
The Heritage Foundation Papers - http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed060905b.cfm
Mnet :: Barroso and Geldof celebrate St Patrick's day with a pint ...
By Mnet
Irish voters have rejected the European Union's Lisbon treaty in a referendum in June 2008, blocking EU reform plans and further expansion of the bloc to new members. Ireland was the only European country to entrust its voters with a ...
Mnet - http://mpelembe.blogware.com/blog
FT.com | Brussels Blog | Fiendish Declan Ganley prepares to spoil ...
By Tony Barber
Ganley is the British-born, multimillionaire Irish businessman who spoiled the European Union’s party last June by spearheading a successful campaign to persuade Irish voters to reject the EU’s Lisbon treaty. The Irish vote threw the EU ...
Brussels Blog - http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/
The G20 and sustainable IMF reform | vox - Research-based policy ...
Given that amending the Articles involves the same ratification process as approving a new treaty, might the international community be better served by creating a new institution that better reflects current geopolitical realities and ...
VoxEU.org: Recent Articles - http://www.voxeu.org/

Orgalime - The European Engineering Industries Association » Blog ...
By Orgalime
In terms of RoHS: The RoHS recast proposal claims to simplify existing legislation and to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy and administrative costs in line with Better Regulation principles of the EU. ... request to regulators is to ensure full legal consistency between the RoHS Directive and other legislative initiatives, in particular with the REACH Regulation and New Legislative Framework (NLF) that have been finalised after the adoption of the initial RoHS Directive. ...
Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform - http://blogactiv.eu/
Comment: EU hedge fund law due in April
Hedge fund managers will be waiting on tenterhooks next month to see what kind of regulations the European Union will propose to impose on the hedge fund and private equity sectors, after months of deliberation and speculation. The draft EU law scheduled to be published on April 21 will target the oversight of supposedly lightly-regulated sectors. 'It will be a directive,' says David Wright, deputy head of the European Commission's internal market unit (pictured), ...
Hedgeweek News - http://www.hedgeweek.com/

UK Proposes Regulatory Overhaul
Wall Street Journal - USA
The report said the current mix of a single market in banking services combined with only a basic framework of pan-European regulations had been shown by ...