Intergovernmental Organisations

Sarkozy leads EU trio to Moscow

bbc.co.uk     2 hrs ago   602 related          

President Sarkozy (L) brokered a ceasefire between Russia and Georgia French President Nicolas Sarkozy is heading to Moscow for talks with the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the crisis in Georgia. He is joined...                    

Charlie Brooker on the Wonderbra ad and strict new advertising guidelines

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago   7 related          

According to a pointless piece of eye-rolling anti-EU extrapolation that appeared in a number of newspapers, a smattering of MEPs are calling for the introduction of strict new advertising guidelines that could eventually...                    

Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq's juvenile prisons

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago   2 related          

Karkh juvenile prison in 2004. At Karkh juvenile prison, Omar Ali, a 16-year-old who has spent more than three years there, showed the multiple skin sores he and many other fellow inmates have contracted through lying on...                    

Reduce net immigration to zero say MPs

telegraph.co.uk     59 mins ago   4 related          

Immigration to Britain would be dramatically scaled back under plans for a "one in, one out" policy published today. The group hopes this will stabilise the swelling UK population and reduce pressure on public services...                    

Letters: Better deals on trade and aid for poor countries

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago          

Peter Power (Letters, September 4) reveals a number of fundamental misunderstandings by the European commission. Neither George Monbiot nor ActionAid claims that access to Senegalese waters by EU fleets will form part...                    

Frank Field: Economic migrants can have no permanent right to settle here if we are to check...

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago          

The European commission's population projections at the end of last month should result in calling time on the UK's open door immigration policy. On the government's own figures, the population growth due to immigration by...                    

UN report points to China for lessons in stimulating growth

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago          

Gordon Brown is right. The reason Britain may be better placed than other countries to cope with the downturn is nothing to do with the supposed improvement in productivity (illusory) or the strength of the competition...                    

Brussels to revive fight for 'passport'

ft.com     11 hrs ago          

The European Parliament is to revive the fight for a management company passport for investment funds, with the hope that it will be voted on before the next parliamentary elections in June 2009. The measure, which would...                    

Stephany Griffith-Jones , Jose Antonio Ocampo and Pietro Calice: Self-Financing Development

project-syndicate.org     6 hrs ago          

NEW YORK – A remarkable feature of the international financial system in the last decade has been the rapid and vast accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves by developing countries. World foreign reserves tripled from...                    

Eat More Meat and Heat Things Up

agwired.com     5 hrs ago   21 related          

I was wondering if there would be anything to post late on a Sunday and the animal rights activist wackos provided some fodder. Okay, to start with, there are still some people claiming something called global warming....                    

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