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The tide is turning against EU bureaucracy Telegraph.co.uk One of the biggest and most wasteful is the Working Time Directive (WTD), which sets a 48-hour limit to the working week. Like a lot of European social legislation thisdirective, first put forward 20 years ago, was well-intentioned. See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Switzerland ponders regulatory changes to hedge fund industry as reaction to ... Hedge Funds Review Magazine The aim of the revisions is to bring Swiss law into line with the EU's alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) directive. The EU rules are scheduled to come into effect in July 2013, by which time Finma hopes Cisa's changes will already be passed... See all stories on this topic » Hedge Funds Review Magazine

Vince Cable: the tide is turning against EU bureaucracy Telegraph.co.uk By Vince Cable I recently attended a remarkable meeting of European economic ministers in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. We represented 15 of the 27 European Union countries: the Like Minded Group, committed to rolling back excessiveregulation ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

How will the EU cookie law affect mobile marketing? Econsultancy (blog) The EU e-Privacy Directive and subsequent ICO guidance is complicated and confusing enough when you look at desktop sites alone, but then there's the question of how it translates to mobile. To recap: the 'cookie law' covers the use by businesses of ... See all stories on this topic » Econsultancy (blog)

Cameron and Clegg visit Essex for coalition fightback: Politics live blog The Guardian (blog) Vince Cable in the Daily Telegraph says other countries in the EU are supporting Britain's attempt to curb regulation. I recently attended a remarkable meeting of European economic ministers in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Protect and survive: an essential guide to data protection regulation Computing Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission (EC) and EU Justice Commissioner, announced the overhaul of the EU's Data Protection Directive on 22 January 2012, billing the move as “a fundamental reform of the common European rules that ... See all stories on this topic » Computing