Saturday 6 March 2010

eu reform treaty

EU ministers speak up for foreign affairs chief
Reuters UK
Ashton, who took office in December under the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, is heading efforts to create an EU diplomatic service designed to give the bloc's ...
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Slow-Motion Merkel
Newsweek
The Brussels bureaucrats are of no help; so far the new leadership posts created by the Lisbon Treaty, the quasi constitution the EU finally adopted last ...
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Confident in strategic deterrence, Medvedev promotes European ...
Russia is not planning to build up its nuclear potential further, President Dmitry Medvedev announced Friday, while promoting his plan for a common European security treaty. ... The Russian leader met with the Defense Ministry board to discuss a wide range of state security issues and outline the ongoing military reform, as well as to evaluate what has already been done. "There is no need for us today to further increase the potential of strategic deterrence," he said. ...
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The Talking Clock: EU Referendum denier Nick Clegg: the public ...
By The Talking Clock
That, and being lied to over a referendum on the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty, Mr. Clegg. Remind us what your party promised again, Mr. Clegg..? And remind us what you whipped your MPs into doing in the House of Commons and what took place with ..... Constitutional Reform. Latest News - During second reading of the Bill on 5 February, a wide-ranging discussion took place on issues including House of Lords reform and the parliamentary sys... 3 weeks ago. Show 5 Show All ...
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Pan-African News Wire: Greece News Update: Thousands Protest As ...
By Pan-African News Wire
breach the "no bail-out clause" in the EU's Maastricht Treaty. A recent poll shows that 71% of Germans think the EU should not help Greece at all. You could call it a culture clash. Germans are big savers, not big spenders. ... introduce a reform bill.) Both the administration and the House would exclude from exchange trading the estimated $50 trillion market in foreign exchange swaps —similar to the derivatives Greece used to hide its debt. ...
Pan-African News Wire - http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/
“Untreated Chronic Pain Violates International Law” « The View ...
By Susan Simpson
Somewhat to my surprise, HRW starts not with a CIL argument, but claims that that the right to treatment of chronic pain is a treaty based obligation. For this they cite a single paragraph of the preamble of the Single Convention on Narcotic ... Hard to argue with a need for education and reform there. But by cloaking every worthy policy suggestion in a nonsensical guise of “international law,” HRW is actually undermining the rule of international law on the global plane. ...
The View From LL2 - http://viewfromll2.com/
VOCAL: FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS. Please spread this far and wide.
By VOCAL
Here is a great video from the American Life League, a leading member of Reform CCHD NOW www.reformcchdnow.com . It keeps the facts straight on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development's (CCHD) and sadly some in the United States ... The State of the Vatican City aka The Vatican, was created by the Lateran Treaty in 1929 to "ensure the absolute and visible independence of the Holy See" and "to guarantee to it an indisputable sovereignty in international affairs" ...
VOCAL - http://vocalblog.blogspot.com/
Czech Politics - Inform
Opposition Conservative leader David Cameron, who polls tip to become prime minister next year, on Sunday highlighted his hostility to the EU reform treaty ...