Friday 25 September 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

EU issues three new directives to reduce emission
People's Daily Online
The Council of the European Union on Thursday issued three directives in order to reduce green house gas emissions and improve efficiency, according to the ...
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Retirement age challenge rejected
guardian.co.uk
Mr Justice Blake said the rule, introduced in October 2006 as part of age discrimination laws, did not breach EU regulations and that it was "legitimate and ...
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Council adopts five major EU environmental laws
ENDS Europe (subscription)
The law should reduce pollution by cutting the number of empty trucks on European roads. Another law adopted on Thursday was a directive to reduce emissions ...
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INTERVIEW: Aviva: Unit's Sale To Fund Organic Growth, M&A's
Wall Street Journal
The European Union's Solvency II directive proposes to raise capital requirements for insurers, and the regulations, once agreed upon, will come into effect ...
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James Lawless – View from the Tracks » Blog Archive » 13 good ...
By James Lawless
In Ireland's case, we can opt-out of taxation and military defence directives. 8. The Charter of Fundamental Rights will be enshrined in EU law. This will ensure that all future EU laws are drafted to the highest moral and social ...
James Lawless - View from the Tracks - http://jameslawless.ie/
IT Waste Being Dumped on the 3rd World | Recycle.co.uk
By Helen Young
The European Union set strict directives for recycling and waste management for all of its member countries. Thus far, the UK has been left behind and criticized for its failure to meet some of the standards. These new laws and regulations have left some businesses unsure of how to dispose of certain types of waste. This confusion has left them vulnerable to a variety of conmen who hope to profit from the new laws and have no intention of actually recycling. ...
Recycling, Green, and Environmental News - http://www.recycle.co.uk/news/
Libertas Insider: Irish democrats still say no to Lisbon
By Libertas Insider
An EU diplomatic corps. It expands ever further the reach of the commission, that unelected bureau in whom is vested the sole power to initiate, conservatively, 60% of member state law. It vests in the European parliament the power ... A single prime minister alone cannot be blamed for every irritating EU directive. Your local MP cannot take responsibility for decisions made in Brussels. Our leaders have a permanent pension home, and a chance to stride the world stage as ...
Libertas Insider - http://libertasinsider.blogspot.com/
EU and USA Intelligence community - Pakistan Defence Forum
By usman_1112
Intelligence budgets are secret, so what we know about them is not comprehensive - but the glimpses. After 9/11, Congress and EU have pumped lot money. ... President Harry Truman established the NSA in 1952 with a presidential directive that remains classified to this day. The US Government did not acknowledge the existence of the NSA until 1957. Its original mission was to conduct the signal intelligence (SIGINT) and communications security (COMSEC) for the United States ...
Pakistan Defence Forum - http://www.defence.pk/forums/

Left groups urging No 'opportunistic'
Irish Times
The Lisbon Reform Treaty will protect the right of citizens in Ireland and other EU countries to access to public services, such as health and education. ...
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Next Commission to launch major EU farm, budget reform
EurActiv
Whatever the Commission's intentions, CAP reform will be strongly linked with discussions between the 27 member states regarding the EU's long-term budget ...
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EU afraid of Klaus delaying Lisbon Treaty signing | Prague Monitor
Brussels/Paris, Sept 24 (CTK) - There are fears in the European Union that Czech President Vaclav Klaus will delay the signing of the EU reform Lisbon treaty by weeks or months, the European Voice daily wrote on Thursday. ...
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Pure Hearsay: The Boring Reality of the Lisbon Treaty
By Michael J. Walsh
The much more modest reality is that the treaty will reform the EU's voting rules, give the European Parliament a much greater say in passing EU laws, give the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms legal force (with respect to EU ...
Pure Hearsay - http://purehearsay.blogspot.com/
The Righteous Alliance: The New Feudalists - The EU Communitarian ...
By Philip Jones
With the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty only a week or so away, I felt it timely to repost in order that the people of Europe and the Irish in particular understand that what is at stake is nothing less than the choice between freedom ... The socio political economic agenda of the EU is carefully and intentionally buried beneath myriad layers of tedious and unintelligible `newspeak`. Despite this, in recent years, as the pace of so called EU 'reform' has quickened, ...
The Righteous Alliance - http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/
13th Spitfire: Scaremongering anyone?
By 13th Spitfire
The EU last managed to revise a treaty as long ago as 2000, in the form of the unloved Treaty of Nice. Since then we have had attempts at the draft constitution of 2003, the constitutional treaty of 2004 and the Lisbon treaty in 2007 – now, ... Flexible ways of revising the treaties would be lost, making it necessary always to resort to the ponderous (and clearly dysfunctional) constraint that everyone has to agree to everything, however trivial, before reform can happen. ...
13th Spitfire - http://13thspitfire.blogspot.com/
Jim Corr – The Lisbon Treaty | Obama's Cash for Clunkers
By Clunker Cash
Book”The EU reform treaty (white paper)”page 11,chapter 1.part 30,bottom part,while preserving the those aspects of the 2004 agreement of particular value from an Irish perspective “such as the institutional balance,and the retention ...
Obama's Cash for Clunkers - http://cashforclunkerscarlist.net/