It strikes me as ‘poetic justice’, which would be amusing if it were not so damaging to every member state, that the EU, which has parked about 6,000 ‘bums on seats’ and told them to produce laws, intended to ‘harmonise’ many vastly differing cultures and countries, now finds that the resulting imbroglio has produced not what was intended bur a dogs breakfast of regurgitated, toxic nonsense, wholly understood by no-one, the ‘Directives’ of which tie industry in knots, which and to which result they, with admirable surprise, quote below; -
“Soaring unemployment is a tragedy for Europe ”!!
We are being led by the nose, having given up on any hope of finding intelligence within, by a bunch of raving incompetents. We really deserve out fate.
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Barroso refuses to rule out third term bid; Offshore tax havens rocked by bank account
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Commission President José Manuel Barroso will decide next year whether to run for a record third term as head of the EU executive, according to reported comments yesterday (4 April) in Vienna, where he is on an official visit.
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The securities industry is facing many challenges, both from a regulatory and industry perspective. These challenges will have a profound impact on the trade and post-trade organisation and activities, in particular in Europe . The conference aims at making banks and their clients aware of these fundamental changes by discussing their operational, legal and commercial impact - including risk, collateral and liquidity management - and by addressing the future of the securities
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Take the opportunity to meet other key gas players and discuss the most recent energy topics and latest news on gas infrastructure developments in the beautiful and inspiring city of Venice .
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Kirill Kravchenko
CEO, NIS, the largest energy company in Serbia
Vladimir Chizhov
Ambassador and Permanent R epresentative to the EU, R ussian Federation
Lena Ek
Environment minister, Sweden
Günter Verheugen
Former vice-president, European Commission
Vladimir R yzhkov
Co-leader , R P R -PA R NAS
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Europe’s new overseas aid policy, the Agenda for Change, calls for giving the world’s most fragile nations more help through what Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs calls “more strategic, targeted and results-oriented” assistance. But some anti-poverty campaigners say there is a risk that the agenda could end up neglecting impoverished people in emerging and middle-income nations.
Italians head to the polls on 24-25 February to replace a technocratic government charged with halting the country’s economic and fiscal decline. But after wearying months of austerity and instability, voters appeared to have no clear favourite among familiar faces as well as wildcard candidates.EurActiv Italia reports.
With Prime Minister David Cameron having vowed to hold a referendum on UK membership of the EU, Britain 's penchant for EU bashing is well publicised. But there are political parties in other member states which are far from in love with the European project, and whose stance against integration has been fanned by the worsening of the economic crisis.
The migration of computing into a cloud of massive data centres spread all over the world is giving regulators a headache as they find themselves on the back foot of an industry-driven trend.
Online security cannot be taken for granted as hackers and cyber attackers continue to outdo software engineers. Although there are means of beefing up security, including hardware and server backups, remote security controls, filtering and encryption, the scale and risk of attacks is becoming more pronounced and political.
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Join us at our 20th anniversary event. The Conference is Europe 's largest annual cogeneration event and looks at the role of cogeneration in the future energy landscape. The Conference Dinner will recognise exceptional contributions to the sector through the Annual R ecognition Awards.
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Patrick Aebischer
President, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
The high quality of academic research in Switzerland , recognized at the highest levels of the European R esearch Commission, is largely due to the open manner in which it is organized, says Patrick Aebischer.
Suleika R einers
Policy officer, The World Future Council
Europe is in the process of re-formulating financial regulations and creating a new banking union, but new rules will give rise to new financial products, writes Suleika R einers, and these may wriggle around the new rules. Financial innovations need to be tested and put to the precautionary principle no less than other aspects of society, she argues, and suggests that a new body could be set up to carry this out.
Hugo Brady
Senior research fellow, Centre for European R eform
Europe's leaders have a veritable R ubik’s cube of political considerations to solve in 2014 in order to appoint a new EU leadership triumvirate, writes Hugo Brady, giving his take on who are the up-and-comers in a changing European balance of power.
Javier Solana and Kevin R udd
Members, World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Europe and Fragile States
With China ’s sights set firmly on taking over from the United States as the world’s largest economy in the next decade, Europe’s engagement with China is critical during this transition phase for a number of reasons, write Javier Solana and Kevin R udd.
Charles Grant
Director, Centre for European R eform
The mood has changed in Berlin . R ecent meetings there with government officials and politicians have convinced me that Germany will not push for the kind of treaty that Cameron wants, at least not in time for his 2017 deadline, writes Charles Grant.
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