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  • NGOs to UN: Push New Pakistan Leadership to Commit to Human Rights 17 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... Center for Youth and Democracy Anna-Lee Stangl, CSW-EU Advocacy Coordinator Christian Solidarity Worldwide Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General ... Friederycke Haijer, Programme Officer Justice and Peace Netherlands Humberto Guerrero, Director of Advocacy Mexican Commission ...

  • First check against euro zone criteria 17 May 2008 04:42 GMT
    ... Union (EMU). With its accession to the EU, Bulgaria automatically earned the right to become ... Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Both institutions are obliged to report regularly ... states with the lowest inflation (Malta, the Netherlands and Denmark) by 1.5 percentage points. Bulgarias ...

  • The Prime Minister welcomed Beatrix, the Queen of the Netherlands, at Stenbock House 17 May 2008 04:41 GMT
    ... House to Beatrix, the Queen of the Netherlands, who is on an official visit to ... the Estonian people are satisfied with the European Union. The Prime Minister stated that most of the people ...

  • Tax on golden handshakes in all of Europe? 17 May 2008 04:38 GMT
    ... all of Europe? A proposal by the Dutch deputy prime minister Wouter Bos to crack ... all goes to plan, next year the Netherlands will be the first European country to ... in Europe if countries outside the 27 EU member states also introduce such a tax. ...

  • "Dutch citizenship tests discriminate" 17 May 2008 04:35 GMT
    ... not welcome Human Rights Watch says the Netherlands should scrap the tests taken abroad by would-be Dutch residents. It argues the tests are discriminatory ... set by computer. Alienated People from the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Canada, New ...

  • U.S. stocks little changed as oil at record 17 May 2008 04:35 GMT
    ... Oil shot to a fresh peak as a bullish ... high. Shares of Total, BP and Royal Dutch Shell rose by 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent, making them ... reckon slower economic growth could force the European Central Bank to move towards an easing path later ...

  • Senegal: UN Decision On Hissène Habré Flouted [press release] 17 May 2008 04:35 GMT
    ... try Habré, but that it needed international funding. The rights groups noted that the European Commission, France, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands had already agreed to help fund the trial. The European Union sent a mission to Senegal in January to determine what is needed for the trial, ...

  • It's a stampede! 17 May 2008 03:07 GMT
    ... various international organisations joined forces to stage "EU Herd of Cows" - a sculptural installation that ... which represented a different nation of the European Union. Bangkok's inner city urbanites were greeted by ... were Pieter J. Th. Marres, the Royal Netherlands ambassador to Thailand, Dr Friedrich Hamburger, head ...

  • Rights groups condemn 24 corporations in symbolic trial during Latin American-EU summit 17 May 2008 01:36 GMT
    ... LIMA, Peru (AP) - A panel of human rights ... symbolic trial parallel to a biennial Latin America-European Union summit in Peru. The panel, known as ... Latin America. The 24 companies include Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Spanish oil company Repsol YPF ...

  • ABOVE LEFT 17 May 2008 00:57 GMT
    ... various international organisations joined forces to stage ''EU Herd of Cows'' _ a sculptural installation that ... which represented a different nation of the European Union. Bangkok's inner city urbanites were greeted by ... were Pieter J. Th. Marres, the Royal Netherlands ambassador to Thailand, Dr Friedrich Hamburger, head ...

  • U.S. stocks little changed as high oil prices lifted energy shares 17 May 2008 00:56 GMT
    ... Oil shot to a fresh peak as a bullish ... high. Shares of Total, BP and Royal Dutch Shell rose by 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent, making them ... reckon slower economic growth could force the European Central Bank to move towards an easing path later ...

  • Shell boost for carbon technology 17 May 2008 00:55 GMT
    ... 5:00AM Saturday May 17, 2008 By Danny Fortson Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to invest in one ... CCS argue that the structure of the EU Emission Trading Scheme provide insufficient incentive for ...

  • Postal exchange: Mail deregulation a failure, CUPW says 17 May 2008 00:30 GMT
    ... White Re: Abolish the Postal Monopoly Now!, Mathieu Laberge, May 14 Mathieu Laberge’s simplistic misinformation about deregulated postal services ... what he got wrong. Japan and the Netherlands have not yet deregulated their public postal ...

  • Debate over solar energy in Germany lowers outlook 15 May 2008 23:36 GMT
    ... The debate over solar energy subsidies is a ... energy. That puts it ahead of a European Union target for countries to generate 12.5 percent of ...

  • HRW criticizes Dutch government on immigration policy 15 May 2008 23:30 GMT
    ... certain kinds of people out of the Netherlands." While international human rights law allows discrimination ... doesn't allow the targeting of certain nationalities. "Dutch authorities would need extremely powerful reasons to ... law." She said that, for instance, all EU citizens are exempt from the test because ...

  • ECB voices 'high concern' over liquidity scheme 15 May 2008 23:29 GMT
    ... By Paul J Davies and Norma Cohen in London ... Mersch, a governing council member, said the ECB was now “looking very hard at whether ... far are believed to be from Spanish, Dutch and some UK deals, but the central ...

  • Merkel, Zapatero and other leaders arrive in Lima for summit 15 May 2008 23:27 GMT
    ... arrived in Lima Thursday, ahead of the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean summit on Friday and ... Poland and Jan Peter Balkenende of the Netherlands, were also in Lima by Thursday afternoon. ...

  • ECB liquidity scheme fears 15 May 2008 22:57 GMT
    ... By Paul J Davies and Norma Cohen in London ... Mersch, a governing council member, said the ECB was now “looking very hard at whether ... far are believed to be from Spanish, Dutch and some UK deals, but the central ...

  • The Short View: Global imbalances 15 May 2008 22:57 GMT
    ... The Atlantic has never seemed wider. The European Central Bank left interest rates on hold on Thursday, ... health, along with France, Belgium and the Netherlands. But all is not well on the ... than the rest of the eurozone. The ECB is strongly committed to keeping rates where they are, and ...

  • Fitch support for ECB liquidity move 15 May 2008 22:57 GMT
    ... Published: May 7 2008 02:48 | Last updated: ... systems in the eurozone are dependent on ECB liquidity to finance their day-to-day operations,” said ... repo transactions.” Fitch notes that Spanish and Dutch banks could be open to funding problems. ...

  • ECB's Trichet warns of euro zone slowdown 15 May 2008 22:37 GMT
    ... European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warned that ... today that this did not mean the ECB could relax its guard on inflation. Bundesbank ... Capital economist Julian Callow wrote to clients. Dutch central bank chief Nout Wellink remained wary ...

  • Landmark ATHENA Study Findings With Multaq (dronedarone) Shows 24% Reduction In Cardiovascular Hospitalization or Death in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation 15 May 2008 21:31 GMT
    ... well as 4.5 million people in the European Union and is emerging as a growing public health concern ... South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey, the UK, the US. Dronedarone ...

  • Goodbye to service 15 May 2008 20:36 GMT
    ... public funding." And this dovetails with current European Union thinking, which insists that it is possible ... in conditions of total market liberalisation. The EU published its third postal directive earlier this year ... national carriers, including Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, want to seek new ...

  • Trichet Warns of Impending Euro Zone Slowdown 15 May 2008 20:36 GMT
    ... VIENNA/FLORENCE, Italy -- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude ... Thursday that this did not mean the ECB could relax its guard on inflation. Bundesbank ... Capital economist Julian Callow wrote to clients. Dutch central bank chief Nout Wellink remained wary ...

  • Balkan exceptionalism 15 May 2008 20:35 GMT
    ... May 15th 2008 From The Economist print edition What ... edition What Serbia's election says about the European Union's enlargement A BRITISH tabloid set a high ... minister, Bernard Kouchner. Jan Marinus Wiersma, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, declared that ...


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