Saturday 19 September 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Unholy Alliance?
Ethanol Producer Magazine
European laws and regulations can be inconsistent, confusing and devious. An example of this can be found in an EU law on renewable energy, which holds a ...
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Times Online
Emotions running high as Ireland weighs the cost of a vote for Europe
Times Online
He blames the EU's bureaucratic rules, principally the Habitats Directive that, he says, bans the harvesting of peat on 132 raised bogs. ...
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UK Health Care
WEBCommentary
Worse, a mad European law known as the "Working Time Directive" is now being applied with ludicrous savagery throughout the hospital system, so that young ...
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Clerical Whispers: EU's equality plans will 'silence' Christians ...
By Sotto Voce
The directive seeks to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of religion, belief, and sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services in each of the EU's 27 member states. ... Ms Williams said that the CCFON was already dealing with cases of Christians being suspended under similar equality laws in the UK, including the case of a homelessness officer in London who was dismissed for suggesting to a terminally ill client that she try putting her faith in God. ...
Clerical Whispers - http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/
Electing The Fourth Reich… « Centurean2's Weblog
By centurean2
It is simply not permissible, thanks to a combination of the European Convention on Human Rights and various EU directives, not least that which came into force only last week, 2004/38, which, for the first time, explicitly lays down, .... Statutes are not Laws. Laws you must obey (Do not Murder, Do not commit Fraud, etc.) But Statutes are a 'legislated rule of a society given the force of law'. You are OFFERED the chance to give the Statute the force of Law. ...
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All Seeing Eye: Still Testing The Waters
By All Seeing Eye
Readers will recall Spain's recent successful attempt to claim authority over Gibraltar's territorial waters under EU environmental protection laws, and their ongoing attempts to assert that authority using armed fast patrol boats. The excuse from Whitehall for accepting the EU directive was that they hadn't noticed that bit of it. This is all going on against a backdrop of a general Spanish claim for all of Gib's waters up to the shoreline - despite the defeat last week ...
All Seeing Eye - http://anallseeingeye.blogspot.com/
EU Directive: Act now! | Politics, Pilgrims and Puritans!
By The Major
As expected, the draft EU Directive is now at the doorway of our Government who, if they accept it in its present form, could enshrine it into our law within the next few years, making us subservient to whatever Brussels decrees. ...
Politics, Pilgrims and Puritans! - http://www.bunyansblog.com/

Parliament set to approve EU services directive
It also considers that existing regulations on the general application of collective ... EU services directive should have limited impact on labour law ...

AFP
Czech senators to file Lisbon Treaty complaint on Sept 29
AFP
... as the treaty will change the make up of the EU's executive arm. The Lisbon reform treaty cleared one major hurdle in Germany on Friday where the upper ...
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NRC International
Balkenende is the talk of Brussels and The Hague
NRC International
If the Irish, in a second referendum in October, vote in favour of the reform treaty, the Council will no longer have a bi-annually rotating presidency, ...
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1300 GMT, Sep 18
Forexyard
BERLIN - Germany's upper house of parliament backed legislative changes on Friday that pave the way for ratification of the eu's Lisbon reform treaty, ...
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Does the EU club have a future? | Jesus Lives!
By sage
Simon Tilford from the Centre for European Reform says British Euro-sceptics like to have their cake and eat it: “Euro-sceptics appear to believe that a Britain outside the EU would remain part of the single market, ... Critics call the Lisbon Treaty a “federalist blueprint”. That muddies the issue. It in fact concentrates power in a unitary state, giving the European Court jurisdiction for the first time over the whole gamut of EU affairs (all three pillars, in EU jargon ...
Jesus Lives! - http://www.jesuslives.co.za/
Iain Dale's Diary: Off Message Labour Candidates: Part 94
By Iain Dale
Thinking you can be in the EU but not of the EU,that you can reform it from within is like thinking you can join a paedophile ring and reform it from within.This is essentially the Tory position.Federasty is incurable,the EU is incurable. ... The BBC reported,briefly, the passage of the legislation through the German Lower House as follows:"German lawmakers have approved legislative changes paving the way for ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty". ...
Iain Dale's Diary - http://iaindale.blogspot.com/
Iran, Israel, 5 nuclear powers are part of global network to ...
By Edith M. Lederer
Major nuclear powers, including the United States, have observed moratoriums on testing since the 1990s, but India, Pakistan and North Korea all have tested bombs since the treaty was negotiated and opened for signatures in 1996. The treaty has been signed by 181 .... September 14th, 2009 US, 5 other world powers expected at Iran talksBRUSSELS — The EU says the United States and five other world powers are expected to meet with Iran's nuclear negotiator on Oct. 1. ...
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German parliament rubberstamps EU reform treaty German news ...
Germany's clearing of the treaty means that all eyes are now on Ireland, which holds a second referendum on the la... <>