Wednesday, 8 April 2009

eu reform treaty

Czech interim government's fate uncertain (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The June summit, at which EU leaders are planned to talk to Ireland about a new referendum on the EU's reform Lisbon Treaty, is thus at risk of being ...
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Economic downturn 'a boost for Treaty'
Western Morning News - Plymouth,England,UK
Supporters of major reform of the EU institutions believe the prospects of Irish voters reversing their decision to reject the deal have been greatly ...
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Obama says Iran must choose between nuclear weapon or “better future”
WashingtonTV - Washington,DC,USA
A day after he urged the 27-member bloc of nations to accept the EU candidacy of Turkey, Obama praised Ankara’s reform efforts even as Brussels continues to ...
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Address by European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering to ...
ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
The implementation of a reform package is not a one-way road! Here again, Parliaments have a special responsibility! Indeed, as shown at the G20 meeting in ...
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Deputy PM: Czech coalition not strong enough to survive EU presidency
Xinhua - China
However, President Klaus, a key figure on the Czech political scene, is a sharp opponent of the EU reform treaty. Meanwhile, the Czech Parliament also ...
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Irish on move again for immigrant rights
Boston Globe - United States
The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform kicked off its renewed campaign with a gathering of a couple hundred people last night in Canton, south of Boston, ...
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What would democracy in the EU look like?
cafebabel.com - Strasbourg,France
Libertas is seeking such a mandate at the ballot box and that is our first task before we look at exactly ways to reform the commission, president or what ...
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Demand a Referendum on EU Lisbon Treaty >> Four Winds 10 ...
And this is not in the treaty, but in a footnote, because with the European Union reform treaty, we accept also the European Union Charter, which says that there is no death penalty, and then it has a footnote, which says, ...
Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com... - http://www.fourwinds10.com/
Grahnlaw: Tony Blair new ”EU President”?
By Grahnlaw
5) The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. 6) Institutional reform: A driving force during the European Convention, the intergovernmental conference leading to the 2004 Constitutional Treaty and the IGC 2007 leading to the Treaty of ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
Czech Senate may approve Lisbon treaty in early May - ČeskéNoviny.cz
Prague - The Senate, the upper house of Czech parliament, may start the ratification of the EU reform Lisbon treaty at its nearest regular session at the beginning of May, Jiri Stritesky, chairman of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) ...
Czech Happenings - http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/
Eurocrat=European+Technocrat: The Kinnock Reform
By European Technocrat
For outsiders, the situation before 2004 had not moved much from when the Rome Treaty was signed. Here are, in a nutshell, the main results of the reform: scores of functions were outsourced (security guards, cooks, cleaners, etc.) Before that, all of them were un-removable civil servants who could keep their jobs as long as ... European Technocrat: Europhile, I am one of the 25000 officials working for the executive branch of the European Union. View my complete profile ...
Eurocrat=European+Technocrat - http://eurotechnocrat.blogspot.com/

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Fish farms to fight back with EU help
BBC News - UK
The subsequent regulations introduced across the EU to abide by the directive required anyone who wanted to set up a fish farm had to prove that it would ...
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Cut number of MPs – and get out of EU
Stoke & Staffordshire - Stoke-on-Trent,England,UK
NOW that 80 per cent of the laws, regulations and directives that govern our country are made in Brussels, is it not time to reform the House of Commons? ...
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Multinational banks and European financial integration | vox ...
This column argues that such banks are critical to successful EU financial integration and says that the appropriate response is to establish multinational regulation to match multinational banks. It proposes a European System of .... It would be better suited to our purposes than a directive, as it would set uniform rules, directly applicable in all Member States, without the risk of distortions and fragmentation due to differences in adoption (such as “gold plating”). ...
VoxEU.org: Recent Articles - http://www.voxeu.org/ 

Swedes accuse EU of snuffing out smokeless tobacco
CTV.ca - Canada
For years Sweden fought a lonely battle against the directive that bars sales of snus -- pronounced snoos -- in all EU countries except Sweden. ...
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European Commission delays top-level report
Financial News (subscription) - London,England,UK
He said: “The proposal for the directive is filled with loopholes.” In particular, Rasmussen said: "That the funds themselves would neither be registered ...
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European Union: Has Government Turned ISP’s Into Big Brother?
Mondaq News Alerts (registration) - London,UK
Other European Countries such as Italy and Denmark have already implemented the EU Directive and the introduction of the Regulations yesterday brings the UK ...
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UK email retention law comes into force
VNUNet.com - UK
"By voting in favour of this directive, the Council of Ministers, the European Commission and the European Parliament have shown their commitment to ...
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