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European Union Observer Signs MoU With Nigeria Government ON 2015 Election
With a view to ensuring that 2015 General Elections meet international best practices, the European Union Observer Mission has signed a memorandum of Understanding with the Nigerian Government ...
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British driving licences will soon feature the Union Jack as well as EU flag European Union flag alone has been on full driving licences since 1998 Transport minister Claire Perry to announce they will feature both flags
By Ray Massey for the Daily Mail
Published: 19:23 EST, 29 December 2014 | Updated: 04:36 EST, 30 December 2014
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British driving licences are to feature the Union Jack as well as the current European Union flag under plans announced today.
Ministers said the changes meant that UK motorists will be able to fly the flag with pride on the photo-card element of their licence.
The European Union flag alone has been displayed on full driving licences since photocards first came into use in July 1998.
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Intent on countering low-cost solar glass from China, the European Union again threatened increased tariffs on Chinese imports on December 19th, promising charges as high as 36.1 percent.
The announcement comes a year and a half after the EU first started flirting with the idea of punishing Chinese producers amid allegations of dumping low-cost product selling at below cost on the European market, undercutting local manufacturers.
The dumping, they said, was having a detrimental effect on the ability of EU manufacturers to stay above water. As previously reported on this blog, the dumping and ensuing oversupply helped drive down solar panel prices 24 percent over the last year. To get things moving in March, the EU leadership promised an investigation.
Launched by European Commission on behalf of EU Pro Sun, an industry association of solar producers from 20 EU countries, the investigation suggests that Chinese companies have been able to dump under market price solar panels and parts on European consumers at a loss thanks to significant financial support from the state. According to a New York Times report, the European Union represented 80 percent of Chinas solar sales worldwide so the low prices undercut the local market to the tune of $26.5 billion last year, or 6.5 percent of all E.U. imports for that period.
The most recent announcement comes nearly five months after the EU imposed anti-dumping charges for a period of five years to help aid producers such as GMB Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg GmbH, according to a Bloomberg report. However, proponents of the levies now argue that the charges are not high enough.
The EUs duties range from 0.4 percent to 36.1 percent, according to the report, varying according to which producer is targeted. They are also intended to counter subsidies from China, which allow the producers to sell the glass at below cost.
Previous tariff efforts have earned scorn and action from China. In late 2012, Beijing responded to the promise of EU action with a call to action of their own, beginning with a proposal to apply tariffs on solar-grade polysilicon from European exporters, a key component of panel production, according to a Reuters report.
Later narrowing their focus, China filed a formal complaint with the WTO, taking aim at member states including Greece and Italy. The complaint accused the countries of offering a higher electricity tariff rates for domestic panel producers who used local components. While the precise details of the WTO complaint remain unclear, by filing it, China has initiated a 60-day period of potential talks between Beijing and the EU. If no resolution is found, China may appeal to the international trade organization to issue a judgment on the matter.
The EU tariff action reflected an earlier approach in the U.S. who moved on levies in response to similar allegations of solar panel dumping on the domestic marketplace, cutting away at the ability for panel manufacturers to succeed without government assistance.
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Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, arrives for a European Union (EU) summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014.
BERLIN In a crescendo of anger over American espionage, Germany expelled the CIAs top operative, launched an investigation of the vast U.S. surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden and extracted an apology from President Obama for the years that U.S. spies had reportedly spent monitoring German Chancellor Angela Merkels cellphone.
In an address to Parliament last year, Merkel warned that U.S.-German cooperation would be curtailed and declared that trust needs to be rebuilt.
But the cooperation never really stopped. The public backlash over Snowden often obscured a more complicated reality for Germany and other aggrieved U.S. allies. They may be dismayed by the omnivorous nature of the intelligence apparatus the United States has built since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but they are also deeply dependent on it.
Over the past year, Germany has secretly provided detailed information to U.S. spy services on hundreds of German citizens and legal residents suspected of having joined insurgent groups in Syria and Iraq, U.S. and German officials said.
Germany has done so reluctantly to enlist U.S. help in tracking departed fighters, determining whether they have joined al-Qaeda or the Islamic State and, perhaps most importantly, whether they might seek to bring those groups violent agendas back to Germany.
The stream of information includes names, cellphone numbers, e-mail addresses and other sensitive data that German security services ever mindful of the abuses by the Nazi and Stasi secret police have been reluctant even to collect, let alone turn over to a suspect ally.
A senior German intelligence official compared the U.S. relationship to a dysfunctional marriage in which trust has bottomed out but a breakup is not an option. Amid what Germans see as evidence of repeated betrayal, the question remaining is whether the husband is a notorious cheater or can be faithful again, said the official, who like others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. Were just going to have to give it another try. There is no alternative. Divorce is out of the question.
More than 550 German citizens have gone to Syria, officials said, and at least nine have killed themselves in suicide attacks.
The exodus is part of a much broader flow of more than 15,000 foreign fighters who have entered Syria over the past four years from 80 countries. At least 3,000 of them are from Europe the largest contingent of Islamist jihadists with Western passports that counterterrorism agencies have ever faced.
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