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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 14, 2010

  Love's Labour's Lost in UK General Election

By Anthony L. Hall: It became a self-fulfilled prophecy last week when voters gave Britain its first hung parliament since 1974. After all, given the polling trends and constant pining (by everyone from pundits to bookies), this result seemed a consummation devoutly to be wished. As...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 4, 2009

  Caribbean vows to fight UK aviation tax to the end

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo, has said the region will fight to the end against the United Kingdom’s Air Passenger Duty (APD), which took effect on November 1. Jagdeo, during a recent British Broadcasting Corporation...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 6, 2009

  UK's Brown to call in banks on imposing G20 rules on tax havens

LONDON, England (Reuters): Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he would be calling in the heads of British banks to discuss how new international rules on supervision of tax havens agreed at the G20 will be implemented. He said this process would start on Monday with an initial meeting...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 2, 2009

  OECD names and shames tax havens

PARIS, France (AFP): The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on Thursday named those tax havens it said had not made any commitment to respecting international standards on exchanging tax information. After the agreement at the G20 summit in London earlier Thursday to act...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 24, 2009

  Is London preparing for Plagues of Egypt?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - If one looks at London a week before the most important summit of the day, the G20 meeting in the elegant Docklands area on April 1 and 2, they would wonder what the British capital is preparing for, a summit of the world's leading...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 5, 2009

  British PM calls for ban on tax havens

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday took aim at tax havens suggesting they should be outlawed just a few weeks before he hosts the G20 summit in London. "You are also restructuring your banks. So are we," Brown said in a landmark address to the US Congress...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 19, 2008

  Washington summit: converting G8 into G20?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - On November 14-15, 2008, Washington, D.C. hosted the G20 Leaders Summit on Financial Strategy and the World Economy. The summit achieved general agreement on how to cooperate in key areas to strengthen economic growth, deal with the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 18, 2008

  The unheard of

Reflections of Fidel: ON Sunday, October 12, the Eurozone countries agreed an anti-crisis plan at the initiative of French President Sarkozy. On Monday 13th came the announcement of multimillion funds that the European countries are to inject into the financial market to avoid a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008

  THE POWERLESS POWERS

Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 2, 2008

  The Great European Union (EU) Betrayal

An erosion of democracy:- By The Nassau Institute - Nassau, Bahamas: The new European Union treaty approved at a summit of member states in Lisbon in October, 2007, has attracted fierce opposition in Britain. It has been labeled "the great EU betrayal". The controversy is as much...... [view]

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