Thursday 9 July 2009

Hedge Fund Exchange: UK slams EU hedge fund rules
By Jack Kelly
“It is perhaps easy for other European countries to make political capital out of demanding intrusive regulation of an industry of which they have little or no direct experience,” he said. The EU directive, a response to public anger at ...
Hedge Fund Exchange - http://compliancex.typepad.com/hedge_fund_exchange/
One Size Fits Most: How appropriate is an EU-wide response to the ...
By Claire Daley
Gordon Brown, previously opposed to tighter regulation at European level, has since changed his position, but the question is, if EU directives are watered down to the point that they lack the necessary bite, are they worth implementing ...
Civitas - http://www.civitas.org.uk/wordpress/
UK Libertarian Party: The Economy Part 1: It was the EU, in the ...
By North
What we have seen is not a failure of capitalism but a failure of regulation and the culmination of a series of politically motivated, populist interventions with socialist intent. In the United States this began with ... As ever it bears all the hallmarks of EU "subsidiarity" whereby we can create all the legislative bodies we like so long as they enact EU directives. So why is the UK biting the turd sandwich harder than the United States? Well if you recall the first ...
UK Libertarian Party - http://lpuk.blogspot.com/

EU retracts statement on settlements
Jerusalem Post - Israel
... and confirmed by a senior EU diplomat, Curiel was told Dickinson acted on his own initiative, and not according to directives emanating from Brussels. ...
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Sweden helps in race to respond to regulation
Financial News (subscription) - London,England,UK
... House of Lords EU Committee on the impact of the regulation. In his speech he called for private equity to be removed from the draft directive entirely. ...
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Press releases » Media centre » The Labour Party
At the EU Foreign Ministers meeting held after the last referendum our Minister for Foreign Affairs spoke to the diverse nature of the Irish debate, and the overlap in that debate between issues affected by the treaty and those which were not. He expressed his appreciation that around Europe ... And how can I sell this treaty to anyone now, if the vast majority of us do not know what QMV, co-decision or the difference between a directive, a regulation or a decision is? ...
Labour Press Office - Press Release... - http://www.labour.ie/press/