Saturday 24 October 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Shoppers blocked from buying across EU borders
ZDNet UK
Under its strategy, the EU also plans to end the fragmentation of European consumer laws by imposing a set of EU-wide rules. It also hopes to simplify VAT ...
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Open Europe :David Miliband tipped for EU Foreign Minister job;
Politics
In a legal opinion on its website, the ECB has warned that the EU's AIFM Directive, introducing stricter rules for hedge fund and private equity firms, ...
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Tougher hedge fund norms may hit India too
Economic Times
The new EU regulations, according to international media reports, could cost hedge funds and PE firms as much as € 3 billion to adhere to the new standards.
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The Christian Institute
MEP: EU seen as cold
The Christian Institute
The Directive proposes to introduce a framework of anti-discrimination law that all European member states would have to put into practice through laws in ...
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EU Parliament Pressured By France, Removes Clause That Bans ...
By Mike Masnick
With France passing its new law to kick accused file sharers off the internet based on accusations rather than due process, you may wonder how that could possibly square with the EU Parliament's position from earlier this year that no one should be kicked off the ... Actually, another entity within the commission says that disconnecting is not something the EU legislative body will condone, so is a no go due, if for nothing else due to other directives, and legislations. ...
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When it comes to e-commerce, there is no Europe
By Robin Wauters
Another impediment is one created by the EU itself – the Distance Selling Regulations in the UK, based (possibly) on an overzealous interpretation of an EU directive, means that a consumer can request a full refund, for any reason whatsoever, ... I agree that some consumers abuse the situation, perhaps, by making spontaneous purchases that they regret and immediately return, but you can't have one law for spontaneous purchasers and another for more considered shoppers. ...
TechCrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/

INTERVIEW - EU parliament head sees Lisbon in place year-end
Reuters India
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The president of the European Parliament said on Friday he expected the Lisbon reform treaty to come into force before the end of the ...
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1400 GMT, Oct 23
Forexyard
... by the European Union presidency for removing his objections to signing the eu's Lisbon reform treaty, increasing the chances of it going into force. ...
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New York relaxes vaccine mandate
United Press International
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic president says he won't sign a European Union treaty on future governance unless it contains a ...
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Remember God - Czech leader welcomes EU proposal on treaty
Czech President Vaclav Klaus welcomed a proposal by the European Union presidency for removing his objections to signing the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, increasing the chances of it going into force. (source:timesofmalta.com) ...
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Britannia Radio
By Britannia Radio
Review on EU - THE EU SCEPTIC MOVEMENT AND EXIT STRATEGY FOR UK. E U Referendum Dr Richard North explains the The Reform Treaty and Why the people MUST have a vote! with Harold Hoffman Neither loyalty nor obedience ...
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LATICONOMICS
By Ricardo Valenzuela
The French are not suggesting a new EU treaty, but they have plenty of other wheezes. The celebration with Germany of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall next month may make up for François Mitterrand's lack of support for German ... They see common ground in opposition to Turkish membership of the EU, as well as reform of laissez-faire capitalism. There is talk of a joint Franco-German government minister. Mr Lellouche has asked his team to prepare “a new ...
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Commonsense & Wonder: The US/EU practice environmental imperialism...
By jerry
On October 22, an accord was signed by Xie Zhenhua, China's vice minister at the National Development and Reform Commission, and Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, in New Delhi. ... The United States and European Union have been trying to find some formula that would persuade the developing countries to sign on to the new treaty. China and India, along with Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, have been adamant about staying out of any global requirement. ...
Commonsense & Wonder - http://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/
Brooks, Cohen and Krugman « Marion in Savannah
By mgpaquin
In “The Quiet Revolution” Bobo says the Obama administration is using its competitive Race to the Top fund to push states to embrace real education reform. Mr. Cohen, writing from London, gives us “Miliband on Cameron” in which he says .... has dispatched his shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, who met this week with Clinton, to take down Blair's unannounced but compelling candidacy to be the European Union's first president under the all-but-ratified Lisbon Treaty. ...
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