Wednesday 18 November 2009

European Union Directives,Regulations and Laws.

Does the EU need another president?
Reuters
A 'No' vote in Ireland in 2008 on the Lisbon reform treaty that replaced the constitution also damaged the EU's international standing. ...
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AFP
Ex-Latvian president challenges rivals on top EU job
AFP
... leaders will hold a special summit on Thursday to choose the president and a foreign policy supremo, both created under the new Lisbon reform treaty. ...
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Will Europe's “capacity to act” and a “return to its Christian roots” present ...
Global Politician
During its ratification process, the Lisbon Treaty (Reform Treaty) was seen by many, including one of the original Constitution's creators, former French ...
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RIA Novosti
Medvedev due in Stockholm for EU-Russia summit
RIA Novosti
The EU's Lisbon Treaty, now ratified by all 27 member states, will come into force on December 1. Prikhodko said Russian and EU officials would focus on ...
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CentreRight: Westminster's responsibilities under the Lisbon treaty
By Charles Tannock MEP
The Lisbon treaty will become a reality whether we like or not in just a couple of weeks. I have written before about the need for a future Conservative government to engage pragmatically and constructively with the EU under the. ... But it does not mean that MPs should remain aloof from the debate about reform and more meaningful subsidiarity – the principle that the EU should not take action where such action can be better accomplished by the member states themselves. ...
CentreRight - http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/
Britain ruled by a belgian?
By Admzaa
And they say his betrayal of the pledge to give voters a referendum on EU reform has led to the appointment of an unelected EU president. Tory MP Philip Davies said: “Do Gordon Brown and the Labour *Government have such little regard for our great country that they ... “With him in the EU hot seat, the Commission will have a powerful friend in the council, a body that until now had only elected representatives of governments. All that changes with the Lisbon Treaty.” ...
British Democracy Forum - http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/
(Herman Van) Rambo Vs Bond … Tony Bond « Tony Blair
By keeptonyblairforpm
The president and foreign minister jobs are the products of the Lisbon treaty, the reform blueprint just ratified, which is supposed to make the EU more coherent and let it speak to the rest of the world with one voice. ...
Tony Blair - http://keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com/
Irish Election » Máire Geoghegan-Quinn “Honoured to be Nominated ...
By Cian
“The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty allows reform of internal decision making procedures so that new laws can be brought forward in a more structured, efficient and co-ordinated way. As a result, the EU can now address key political ...
Irish Election - http://www.irishelection.com/
The American Spectator : Europe as Weltmacht
By Doug Bandow
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, complained: "On many of the world's big security problems, the EU is close to irrelevant. Talk to Russian, Chinese or Indian policy-makers about the EU, and they are often withering . ... Despite Lisbon's many claimed benefits, the treaty has not changed Europe. The EU remains an amalgam of nations rather than a single political community. Since the center-right is ascendant, conservative governments claimed the ...
The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog - http://spectator.org/


EU Agrees Energy Standards For New Buildings, Product Labeling
Wall Street Journal
The full Parliament assembly and a large majority of EU governments will have to approve Tuesday's agreements before they become law.
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Websites fined in EU ring tone scam sweep
EurActiv
Enforcement authorities across Europe checked mobile service websites for suspected violations of EU consumer law: the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive ...
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Risky Investment in Energy must stop By Christian Kjaer
REVE
Meeting the 12% electricity target for wind energy will require the EU countries to increase wind energy capacity by some 9.5 GW a year over the next 12 ...
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Norway - Address to the Storting on important EU and EEA matters
ISRIA
This also applies to several of the directives and regulations under the EU climate and energy package. In certain areas it will be necessary to negotiate ...
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Temporary workers to get new rights - in 2011
Independent
The EU Agency Workers Directive was due to be introduced in the UK as early as next Spring, but ministers decided earlier this year that the measure will ...
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The EU-US Safe Harbor Does Not Protect US Companies with Unsafe Privacy Practices
FindLaw
The European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive requires EU member countries to put in place legislation that prohibits the transfer of personal data ...
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ROHS-like House bill travels a bumpy road
EDN.com
A US House of Representatives bill focused on the same six elements in the European Union's ROHS directive is causing controversy in the electronics ...
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European Regulators May Take Swift Action on 'Dark Pools ...
By By DEALBOOK
European Union securities regulators will complete their review of "dark pool" share trading venues by year end and may ask the bloc's executive to take speedy action, a top supervisor said on Tuesday. ... “The main point is that we have adequate disclosure, probably on the pre-trade and post-trade level, and in addition to that we have adequate regulation in place dealing with market abuse,” Mr. Wymeersch said. The G20 has also agreed that trading should shift to ...
DealBook - http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/
“We've lost MEPs, but our influence has grown”: The Glenis ...
We've got to make sure that there's regulation in place that's European-wide. And people do ask, “why can't we just do it in Britain?” Well, we could have regulation in Britain, but if we do that, some of our financial ... The other problem is that all of the EU directives are so badly transferred into UK law that people also lose trust.We have to be in one system or the other.We cannot continue trying to appease both ,otherwise the mess we are in now will get worse! ...
Latest Posts at LabourList.org - http://www.labourlist.org/
“Welcome to the 2010 EU Cup final”… « My mindless mind mindlessly ...
By Jack the Ripper jr
... the goal was always the same. The deconstruction of 2000 years worth of an Independent Europe to be replaced by an all-mighty and all-powerful supranational body, all controlled by little puppets blindly following directive after directive laid down by Devil knows who. And just think, if the European Union are thinking about a National Anthem now, how long till Van Rompuy & Co from insisting on new treason laws to protect the newly founded State from rebellion? ...
My mindless mind mindlessly minding - http://thelunaticarms.wordpress.com/
Technology & Marketing Law Blog: AALS Law & Computers Meeting in ...
By Eric
Wikipedia and the E.U. Database Directive, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Visiting Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law * Wikitruth Through Wikiorder, David Hoffman & Salil Mehra ...
Technology & Marketing Law Blog - http://blog.ericgoldman.org/
Cranmer: Labour's Equality Bill means Christmas could be 'killed off'
By Archbishop Cranmer
There may be the occasional silly regulation, over-zealous interpretation or hyper-sensitive application of some rule or other, but such agendas are really no different to the seventeenth-century attempts to force businesses to trade on Christmas day or to ... The Directive can only become law if the unelected Council of the EU agrees. (A 'big special thanks' then to all those Christians who support the EU – (you have betrayed your own brothers and sisters in the faith)). ...
Cranmer - http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/