Archive for the ‘International law and structures’ Category
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
This from the Comreg list:ComReg was asked by ECORYS for help in identifying consumers who are willing to participate in a short web-survey on customer needs for postal services. This is part of a study that ECORYS is undertaking for the European Commission on The Main Developments in the Postal ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
The EU commission is proposing to extend copyright terms for performers of music, to match the existing terms for composers. The notion of retroactive extension is problematic (though not unprecedented), but there are some interesting aspects to the proposal:For session musicians, the record companies will set up a fund reserving at least ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
We're now posting this evening's edition of A Critical Ear. It lasts about 90 minutes. Contents: Interworld Radio news headlines (3-4 min) Interworld Radio feature about healthcare services in Zambia (6 min) Discussion of Iran and US foreign policy regarding Iran (30-40 min) Gaza - recent developments and contextJose Padilla (5-10 min) Economic developments in ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
This week's show is now online. It lasts just around an hour, and features Bob Naiman and myself discussing Pakistan, Iran, and the success of Brazil's AIDS drugs policy. Locally we discuss SEIU's possible strike and the growing support from the campus community, and the CCHCC protest about the exclusion ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
One of my current side projects is the radio show I present with Bob Naiman on WRFU. A Critical Ear covers a range of US domestic and foreign policy developments. Bob works for Just Foreign Policy and is incredibly well informed on foreign policy, activism, and labor issues, so it's ...
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Just before I came home for Christmas I was Paul's guest on MediaGeek on WEFT. We had intended, originally, to talk about the state of community media in Ireland and Europe generally, but ended up spending most of the show talking about the Data Retention compromise that had just passed ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
This is surreal! Giscard d'Estaing blames the failure of the EU constitution in France on the fact that each household was sent a copy of the full text of the constitution:One crucial mistake was to send out the entire three-part, 448-article document to every French voter, said Mr Giscard.
Over the ...
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Given that I understand Saddam to be in the custody of the coalition authorities, which includes the UK, does the UK have a legal duty to prevent the publication of photographs of Saddam? That is, does the requirement that a prisoner not be exposed to ridicule cover not only the ...
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
There's a strange piece in EU Observer today about a controversial passage in a speech by EU Communication Commissioner Margot Wallström:In the original version, Commissioner Wallström was to say "Yet there are those today who want to scrap the supranational idea. They want the European Union to go back to ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
So it seems that Dermot Ahern, the Irish minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed by Kofi Annan as one of four 'special envoys for UN reform' who will:travel around the world and engage political leaders, civil society representatives, academics and the media. They will present the broad package of ...
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