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 Here is a remarkable story, and a perfect example of how new technology may breed new beliefs and moral values, and thereby challenge the law in the books.
Ever since the Internet was created, users of this new technology were empowered to have a technical ability to send and recieve files to and from other users, by a click of a mouse. Initially people exchanged messages, then they moved to sharing files, some of which may have contained copyrighted materials or subject to other forms of intellectual property rights. Owners of those rights quicly moved to protect their rights, and a complex enhanced international enforcement scheme was created to ensure protection of intellectual property rights all over the globe in the form of the TRIPS agreement, part of the newly created World Trade Organization (WTO). The new rules extended the protection afforded to traditional forms of intellectual property to digital contents, thus globally outlawing illegal file sharing of any such contents. |
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 According to the EU Commission, the latest package of economic and budgetary recommendations to EU member ststaes sets priorities for 2012 and includes new measures to reinforce eurozone financial governance and stability.
Here is an intereting one, under the heading: Stronger economic governance.
"This year’s package includes 2 new proposals that build on measures taken in the wake of the financial crisis to improve economic governance and help control public debt.
One proposal would require eurozone countries to present their draft budgets at the same time each year. The Commission could then issue an opinion on them, if necessary, and ask governments to revise them in line with their eurozone obligations. |
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 Here is a remarkable “breaking news” item from Europe, as usual overlooked and neglected by the mainstream media (with the exception of the Telegraph online): The President of the European Council made a quite astonishing statement recently, in which he proposes the enactment of the “reverse majority rule”, under which a Commission proposal is to be considered adopted automatically unless rejected by the European Council.
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The European Union's leverage to promote human rights values and its vision of a rules-based world order has dramatically declined over the last decade, ECFR reveals in a new report, after analysing over ten years of UN voting statistics.
Another sign for the coming decline of the West? |
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The first summit of the BRIC Group (Brazil, Russia, India, China), will take place in mid-June 2009, in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
According to Wikipedia, the term BRIC is an acronym, which
was first coined and prominently used by the bank holding company Goldman Sachs in 2001.
Goldman Sachs argued that, since these states they are developing rapidly, by 2050
the combined economies of the BRICs could eclipse the combined economies of the
current richest countries of the world. Goldman Sachs did not argue that the BRICs
would organize themselves into an economic bloc, or a formal trading association, like
the European Union has done. |
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The case originated in an application (no. 4158/05) against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by two British nationals, Mr Kevin Gillan and Ms Pennie Quinton (“the applicants”) on 26 January 2005. The completed application form was filed on 30 April 2007.
The applicants alleged that the powers of stop and search used against them by the police breached their rights under Articles 5, 8, 10 and 11 of the Convention.
The Court agreed.
See excerpts of the decision below. |
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