2009-06-08 … back, and to counter any exploitation of the far-right's gains. 2. The far-right's gains: The most impressive far-right gains were in the UK and the Netherlands, where there usually isn't that much support for the far-right. Nevertheless, the rise in the far-right has been an expected effect of the economic …
2009-06-06 Short update this time (promise). ELDR is naturally very pleased with it's result in the Netherlands, with an increase of one seat (to a total of 6 seats), which is bigger than the EPP (5) or PES (4) delegations. They've already posted about it on …
2009-03-13 … utility Nuon. The sale of 49% of Nuon to Vattenfall is part of the break up and effective privatization of the four largest utility companies in the Netherlands; a process that has, by law, to be completed by the end of 2010. - Enel, the Italian utility, raised €8 billion to finance the acquisition of a …
2009-02-21 … Not to mention the recent bailout by the Dutch government of ING Bank, the terms of which require the bank to expand lending domestically within the Netherlands; an understandable provision given the Dutch taxpayer had just handed ING another €25 billion to ING - but protectionist, in the literal sense of …
2008-12-09 … for the banks with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promising that, "No bank will go bankrupt". A week later Italy joined Germany, France, Spain, Holland and Austria in the €1,500 billion "greatest bank bailout in history" which included €40 billion in equity for banks on a "case by case" basis, said …
2009-02-05 … fair that the competition goes home in effect. This narrows down the bids to four competitors: England, Russia and the joint bids from Belgium and Holland and Portugal and Spain. Russia’s potential for political instability and the fact that the stadia and infrastructure outside of Moskow and St …
2009-05-22 … to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and advanced aircraft. It is in service in Egypt, Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan. On April 6 and 7 Nikolai Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, visited …
2007-10-07 … up an interesting question. Are we liberals fated to play Halo alone? PS – Henry Farrel outlines the fascinating cohesive, small communities in the Netherlands, Germany and Austria that were maintained and encouraged by social democratic governance. Also Reihan Salam on Christian Democracy and “soulcraft” …
2009-04-05 No Correspondance with Cinnamon Crackers. On April 4th 2009 a package from Rain Rien Nevermind in USA arrived in Breda, Netherlands. Litsa Spathi dedicates this video from Fluxus Heidelberg Center to Rain Rien and thanks him for the Cinnamon Crackers.
2008-12-30 … or by force. The number of serious diplomatic approaches, for more or less peaceful negotiations of this claim, conducted by Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Russia and America since 1790 amounted to approximately two dozen. In this context, it is almost possible to understand the United …
2008-12-30 … Pellew’s assault in 1808 when he entered the bay of Nagasaki with the Phaeton under the disguise of the Dutch flag. The Napoleonic wars had wiped the Netherlands from European maps and replaced it with the Batavian Republic. For more than ten years, the artificial island Dejima in the port of Nagasaki was the …
2008-02-18 … during the isolation came to an end and a Western puppet government replaced it – the usual story all over the world.Britain, Russia, France and the Netherlands also signed ‘unequal treaties’ with Japan which gave these countries far more rights than the Japanese (see ‘free trade’ to this day) and the United …
2008-02-15 … [isn’t “several” too modest, shouldn’t you just say ” has offices and factories […] offices and factories around the world, including Switzerland, Holland, France, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Spain, Australia and China. Sandro Ferronato, owner of the company, explains why KGS was keen to participate in …
2006-10-25 … Members which have withdrawn troops: Since the war started a number of members of the ‘coalition of the willing’ have pulled out, including Spain, Netherlands, Korea, Portugal, Italy, Canada and Japan. The only solidly substantial members left seem to be UK, USA, Australia and Poland. Continuing …
2007-11-15 … in Europe. First, I’d like to see that data. Second, if you want the comparison to be fair, then you must also factor out the inner city areas of the Netherlands as well — which makes up much of the Netherlands, one of most highly urbanized countries in the world. Britain, for one, has a far higher rate of …
2007-11-15 … can wreak havoc. An army, after all, is never outnumbered by a disorderly mob. Murder rate for males age 15-24 (per 100,000 people) USA: 24.4 Netherlands: 1.2-Op One observation I think is important here is that often Op uses statistics to attack the US. Or rather, tries to exploit a statistic …
2007-11-15 Ophi, back this up. I think you cannot. Well, you’re wrong. Look here. These statistics are a little old, and they miss the Netherlands in a number of key places, but here’s a relevant number: Murder rate for males age 15-24 (per 100,000 people) USA: 24.4 Netherlands: 1.2 I found a …
2009-07-02 … personal and religion-tinted morals. Back to your own 2000 argument of “stately order”, dear CDU. Has Armageddon befallen Spain? Did locusts devour the Netherlands? Does Sweden sink into anarchy and chaos right now? I think it’s safe to say that gender neutral marriage laws do not cause stately order to …
2009-05-28 … mortgage market several times in the past few decades. Most recently, there has been a proliferation of direct banks providing mortgages, ING from the Netherlands and even the Postal Bank is involved. The irony of the Landesbanks is that they did not lose a penny on investments and loans Germany. All of the …
2009-07-04 David Icke is in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on September 19th 2009. For ordering tickets please follow the walkthrough on the ordering process!
2009-03-16 … Hungary 12. Azerbaijan 13. Greece 14. Lithuania 15. Moldova 16. Albania 17. Ukraine (chosen with a wilcard) 18. Estonia (chosen with a wildcard) 19. The Netherlands (chosen with a wildcard) The Final (May 16th) 1. Semi-Final qualifier 2. Semi-Final qualifier 3. France 4. Semi-Final qualifier 5. Semi-Final …
2008-07-25 … country. Nevertheless, take a look at Los Angeles or New York, where there are now large communities of ex-Israelis. And you even have them here in Holland. I wonder what will happen if it comes to a new conflict with Hezbollah. Very soon, the majority of Israelis will live within range of the rockets …
2009-07-05 … come here who were dissatisfied with the old country -- who were dissatisfied with England, dissatisfied with France, with Germany, with Ireland and Holland. The kings' favorites stayed at home. Men came here for liberty, and on account of certain principles they entertained and held dearer than life. …
2009-06-22 … risk should the fuel or irradiation targets fall into the wrong hands. Policies regarding export of highly-enriched uranium to Canada and the Netherlands for use in medical isotope production targets are discussed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative. We Support Lee would like for readers to understand as …
2009-05-17 … the Shadow Business Secretary, and Martin Taylor, formerly head of Barclays Bank, have had their hand on the British tiller. Prince Bernhard of Netherlands This year the club is going to talk about depression. “According to the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees, Bilderberg is looking at two …
2009-07-07 … these dignitaries and towering above them is this stuffed giraffe. She also told me about this famous swan that imprinted on this boat (I think in Holland?) and so it would follow the tourist boat all around and got so sad when it was taken out of the water for the winter that they put it back in this …
2009-02-22 … of cross-border banks. No country is named in the so-called 'secret paper', but obvious candidates might be Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Spain, and UK, and non-EU member Switzerland, which have large banking sectors relative to GDP or have sold proportionately large …
2009-06-08 … fringe parties are the big winners». The British newspaper writes that: «Anti-immigrant parties gained MEPs in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands and Slovakia». United Kingdom it self, will send of two new European parliamentarians from British National Party (BNP). This party promotes it …
2009-04-03 … state-run RIA-Novosti news agency quoted him as saying. The leaders may also announce a decision on NATO’s new secretary-general, who will succeed Dutch diplomat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer whose term runs out Aug. 1. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has emerged at the leading candidate, despite …
2009-06-17 … (Australia), Dr A.L. Vasanthakumar (UK), Ms Karen Parker (USA), Dr N. Jeyalingam (USA), Mr Selva Sivarajah (Australia), Mr Paul Williams (Netherlands) and Professor Peter Schalk (Sweden) have agreed to function as Advisory Committee members. We kindly request all committed individuals to come …
2006-06-25 … the 1960’s, and is now closer than ever to entry. Yet the path to membership is still far from certain, due mainly to obstreperousness from France, the Netherlands and others. The debate hinges on many angles – the nature of Turkey’s government and society, Islam, disparities in GDP per capita, and more – but …
2009-07-07 … With Geert Wilders: I’m in Favour of Romania and Bulgaria Leaving the EU [video at the link] Geert Wilders is the leader of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, a political group described as “Islamophobic”. The party performed well in the recent European elections. Wilders’ anti-Islamic and anti-EU …
2009-06-26 … watches - I am the moderator for what has become the world's largest and most popular watch collecting forums on the Internet, Watchuseek in the Netherlands, moderating both the Vintage & Pocket Watch forum as well as the Pilot/Military watch forum - but also the watchmaking itself. I've had around 30 …
2006-10-28 … officers with armored cars. European law enforcement sources say France could be a model for other countries. The most worried are Britain and the Netherlands.
2009-07-03 … and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, as well as on international television news programs in Britain, Australia, France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, China, and Germany. He has been interviewed for broadcast media and documentaries -- including Frontline, the History Channel, the BBC, the …
2009-03-09 … traveled" (VMT) by 2020 – and indexing it for inflation. (At 18 cents per gallon, the federal gas tax has gone unchanged since 1993.) In Europe, the Netherlands will transition to a VMT by 2014 and Denmark by 2016. Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Idaho are looking at a …
2009-06-23 … being brandished by demonstrators in Los Angeles and New York City. The graphic video was originally posted to Facebook by an Iranian expatriate in Holland who said it was sent to him by a friend in Tehran, a doctor who tried to save the girl. He identified her as Neda Soltani, a 16-year-old philosophy …
2008-06-24 … real meaning. Civil society organizations are funded by governments whose official policy is one of regime change in Zimbabwe. The US, Britain and the Netherlands finance pirate radio stations and newspapers, which the Western media disingenuously call “independent”, to poison public opinion against the Mugabe …
2007-09-26 … them like sport ever since in an endless unbroken cycle. We fought four imperial ones as well from 1689 to 1763 with England, France, Spain and Holland. Throughout the period, numerous settler outbreaks and insurrections arose that were also put down along with dozens of riots. Then there were the …
2008-06-26 … real meaning. Civil society organizations are funded by governments whose official policy is one of regime change in Zimbabwe. The US, Britain and the Netherlands finance pirate radio stations and newspapers, which the Western media disingenuously call “independent”, to poison public opinion against the Mugabe …
2009-05-08 … I tell you what. In the fifteenth century, France had a great king, Louis XI. He defeated various ambitious aristocrats and Burgundy (which included the Netherlands; a generation later the Burgundy heir was elected Charles V, emperor of Spain and the Holly German empire). Louis XI intervened with the heaviest …
2009-03-20 … in other countries.” Sorry? Europe is doing nothing? Who has been nationalizing banks? Did the USA nationalize banks? Britain, Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France nationalized several banks. Germany, after claiming it would never do such a thing, because it was a reminder of the 1930s, …
2009-02-15 … not spend a few hundred millions building appropriate dikes”. Diamond’s answer: “Rich people are living on high ground In New Orleans. Compare with the Netherlands, where “the system of dikes has been called one the Seven Wonders of the World”. “Rich people are not allowed to have mansions on top of the dikes, …
2009-02-07 … crystallize anew, stronger and better). The Franks had replaced the exploitation of man by man, by the exploitation of nature by man. Europe, from Holland to Britain, to the Alps, got covered with windmills and waterwheels (the Romans had waterwheel technology, and it was deployed industrially in Gaul, …
2009-06-28 … when it was announced I won the Martha Gellhorn Prize, several European countries requested Israel grant me a visa but it was MP Hans Van Baalen of the Netherlands who, with great efforts, secured and guaranteed my passage out of Gaza and Israel, as well as the return for both the 2007 and 2008 trips on the …
2009-03-30 … Lisbon Treaty, which is virtually identical to the Constitution that Dutch voters rejected by 62 to 38 percent in the 2005 referendum. Nevertheless, the Netherlands is going ahead with the ratification of the Treaty even after the Irish rejected it, said Premier Jan Peter Balkenende. The political elites are …
2009-05-13 … extremist Czech Edelmannove […] With such allies one can not win over voters with traditional conservative vaues […] Somebody like Wilders from Holland knows why he isn't playing court jester for Beisicht and his cronies […] Another guest of honour of the congress, Robert Spieler, chairman of …
2008-11-16 … for CO2 than growing and shipping them from New Zealand. 6. The production of cut roses in Kenya emits a sixth of the CO2 as the same roses grown in Holland. MOST IMPORTANTLY: 7. Fruit and veg accounted for 22% of exports from developing countries (2001 figures). If we allow the food miles, and "buy …
2008-11-21 … even those few European countries where supplements have traditionally been regulated in a relatively liberal fashion – such as the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden – are now at risk of losing their access to effective supplements as a result of the passing by the European Parliament of the highly …
2009-06-30 … places, adding that Bulgaria is to follow suit in 2010. In eight other member states – Italy, Malta, Sweden, Latvia, Finland, Slovenia, France, and the Netherlands – there is legislation banning smoking at work and in public places, but allowing for special enclosed smoking rooms. "Nobody pretends that smoking …
2008-12-07 … for Afrika" was in the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin in 1884/1885 where America and her western cousins such as Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands literally carved up Afrika for themselves and in the process stealing vast swathes of Afrikan land and by proxy creating the artificial boundaries …
2007-09-15 … In April 1940, he ordered German forces to march into Denmark and Norway. In May 1940, Hitler ordered his forces to attack France, conquering the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium in the process. France surrendered on 22 June 1940. This series of victories persuaded his main ally, Benito Mussolini of …
2007-09-15 … the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Austria and Switzerland in the south, France and Luxembourg in the south-west and Belgium and the Netherlands in the north-west. Climate Alpine scenery in Bavaria Alpine scenery in Bavaria Most of Germany has a cool, temperate climate in which humid westerly …
2007-09-15 … Sea; on the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; on the south by Austria and Switzerland; and on the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Germany is a parliamentary federal republic of sixteen states (Bundesländer). The capital city and seat of government is Berlin. As a nation-state, …
2007-09-15 … distance by coming to Turkey's aid). As had its predecessor, the English Army, in building the Empire, the British Army fought Spain, France, and the Netherlands for supremacy in North America and the West Indies. It also battled many Native American nations and groups, including the many disgruntled former …
2007-09-15 … Aston Villa, and Celtic. More clubs from England have won the European Cup than any other country (four compared to three from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands). Moreover, England ranks second in the all time list of European club trophies won with 35, one behind Italy's 36. The European Cup competition …
2007-09-15 … British government officials, politicians, judges, senior military and police officers in England, and in other areas such as West Germany and the Netherlands. The bombing campaign principally targeted political, economic and military targets, and approximately 60 civilians were killed by the IRA in …
2007-09-15 … 10.4%, Switzerland 8.3%, Italy 6.7% while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23.4%, Russia 12.3%, Italy 12%, UK 9%, France 8.9%, Netherlands 6.8% and United States 4.7%[14]. The Gibraltar Government state that economy grew in 2004/2005 by 7% to a GDP of 599.18 million pounds. Based on …
2007-09-15 … Controversy marked the transformation of what was a reasonably loose Arminian movement into a separate, initially persecuted church organization in the Netherlands, and set the stage for the continuation of the predestination-free will controversy to this day in Protestant ranks. The controversy is seen quite …
2009-06-29 … Persistent solar influence on North Atlantic climate during the Holocene. Science, 294, 2130-2136. Carter, R.M., de Freitas, C.R., Goklany, I.M., Holland, D. & Lindzen, R. (2006) The Stern Review: A Dual Critique. Part I: The Science. World Economics, 7, 165-198. Hansen et al. (1988) Global Climate …
2008-07-18 … it to acknowledge the legitimate objections of real, actual voters. This, of course, was the same lesson that went unheeded in 2005, when France and the Netherlands issued comparable "No" votes to the EU Constitution, killing it. In the runup to Thursday, Mr. Barroso announced with much drama that "There is no …
2008-06-09 … be the Group of Death because both France and Italy are there. France is playing Romania (poor Romania) in the first game, and Italy will be playing Holland (poor Holland) later. Both games would be incredible upsets if France or Italy should lose. Italy won the last World Cup, and France came second. …
2009-01-13 … comes as Policy Exchange, a think tank, said the UK should learn from successful moves to combat gang-related activity in the US, Canada and the Netherlands.The right-of-centre body said parts of some cities had become virtual “no-go” zones because of gang crime – and that the UK was lacking the …
2009-04-22 … requires participation for it to have legitimacy. Lack of engagement does not mean that the elite can presume consent. The referenda in France, Holland and Ireland should at least have put paid to that idea. What they suggest is a deep disillusion with the whole project, an deliberate disengagement …
2006-11-05 … again. It's all America's fault, don't you forget it. Many European nations voiced their opposition to the death penalty, including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, and a leading Italian opposition figure called on the continent to press for Saddam's sentence to be commuted to life …
2008-02-10 … meeting Ottawa’s demand for an extra 1,000 troops alongside Canadian forces in Kandahar was “not a negotiable item.” Canada, Great Britain and The Netherlands have the largest troop numbers as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan’s volatile south, dotted with …
2005-12-09 … Group B: (1) England, (2) Paraguay, (3) Trinidad & Tobago, (4) Sweden Group C: (1) Argentina, (2) Ivory Coast, (3) Serbia and Montenegro, (4) Netherlands Group D: (1) Mexico, (2) Iran, (3) Angola, (4) Portugal Group E: (1) Italy, (2) Ghana, (3) USA, (4) Czech Republic Group F: (1) Brazil, (2) Croatia, …
2005-12-06 … removed Brazil from the equation (and they seem to be everybody's favourites) there is not much to choose between the top nations. Argentina, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, England, Spain and even Germany are all capable, with a nice draw and a following wind, of making it to the final. After all, a …
2009-03-12 … 'You're Not My Responsibility', and on the obverse 'Where's My Cut?' The problem in Europe is that 'fiscally responsible' countries such as Germany, Netherlands and Finland don't approve of more economic stimulus, preferring monetary discipline, while the countries that are facing insolvency, like Ireland, …
2008-10-08 … several awards, including “Best Credit Derivatives House,” “Best Debt House in North America,” “Best Debt House in USA” (also in Italy, Israel and the Netherlands). “Securitization Deal of the Year”: Whinstone Capital Management – Northern Rock’s £423 million funded synthetic securitization (doublespeak at its …
2008-07-31 … the second largest private sector energy corporation in the world, and one of the six oil super majors. The company’s headquarters are in The Hague, Netherlands, with its registered office in London (Shell Centre). Oil giant Shell has over 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) resources under …
2008-02-04 … in Amsterdam who’s also a secret Israeli asset, is assassinated for his strident reports and articles detailing the dangers of militant Islam within the Netherlands, Gabriel gets the job to clean out the professor’s files. In Amsterdam, the Israeli agent and his old partner, Eli Lavon, unearth a plot that leads …
2009-07-07 … a pellet plant in Cottondale, Fla., that produces 500,000 tons of pellets a year; it ships them by rail to the coast and then on to Rotterdam, Netherlands. The company, owned by Swedish concern JCE Group AB, wants to build another big plant in the U.S., said Olaf Roed, chief executive of Green Circle. …
2007-11-02 … blow up,” the top officer said, referring to the worrying cuts planned for the defense budget. A few hours later, at the NATO summit in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, there came another blow for the Prodi government’s low profile policy on Afghanistan, which is dictated by his governing majority’s pacifist …
2007-10-27 … Mediu attended the meeting of defense ministers of the NATO and partner nations, that take part in ISAF mission in Afghanistan, held in Noordvijk of Holland. Mr.Mediu stressed that “Albania will stand in Afghanistan up to completion of ISAF mission. This is a serious and constant commitment to build a …
2007-10-10 … commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Sarkozy said recently: ‘I am more determined than ever to continue the struggle against terrorism.’ Poland and the Netherlands are two countries with substantial numbers of troops committed, despite strong opposition among the general population. Poland has some 1,200 troops …
2009-06-24 … alone, or in coalition) fared particularly badly, losing seats in Austria (-3 seats), Belgium (-2 seats), Estonia (-2 seats), Hungary (-5 seats), Netherlands (-4 seats), Portugal (-5 seats), Slovenia (-1 seat), Spain (-3 seats) and the UK (-6 seats). Social Democratic parties also did badly in Denmark (-1 …
2009-05-14 … to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be …
2009-05-13 … warned: "No one nation should be complainant, prosecutor and judge." A compromise solution was then agreed for a trial to be held at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, governed by Scots law, and President Mandela began negotiations with Colonel Gaddafi for the handover of the two accused (Megrahi and Fhimah) in …
2009-05-13 … Though Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs and only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland, the defeat of the Spanish armada in 1588 associated her name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest …
2009-06-29 … by Friedrich Engels out of the proceeds of the Engels family business. One therefore imagines that when he wrote a letter to his Jewish uncle in Holland he had in mind ingratiating himself for future borrowing. The letter was about Marx's excitement over the American civil war and his contempt for …
2009-06-29 … 264% External debt (as % of GDP): 264% External debt per capita: $171,478 Gross external debt: $1.304 trillion (Q4 2008) 2008 GDP: $492.6 billion 5. Netherlands - 268% External debt (as % of GDP): 268% External debt per capita: $145,959 Gross external debt: $2.439 trillion (Q4 2008) 2008 GDP: $909.5 billion …
2009-06-07 … infuriated many. But there is little else the FPÖ (a low 6.3% in 2004) needs to do – the premature release of trends and partial results from the Netherlands on Friday morning shows that far-right provocations helps mobilizing the protest vote. If predications are correct in Austria, the FPÖ will triple – …
2009-06-04 … /> These blog posts raise an interesting historical question the nature of religious minorities in Confessional states- whether Catholics in the Netherlands or the (by the 19th century much smaller) protestant population of say. A confessional state is simply speaking a state whose laws privilege a …
2009-05-27 … that exist within it. Partly this can be explored using the example Vilno gives Belgium. For a start why should the overwhelmingly Catholic southern Netherlands not have joined in the 1830revolt that created modern Belgium? Vilno I think rightly identifies history as the major reason. They'd been subjects of …
2009-01-23 … to compensation, but that's in essence what they want […] CMUDaily] Rough Trade distribution has MBO "More indie distribution news for you, and Netherlands-based Rough Trade Distribution, linked back in the day to the London based record shop and label but long since a separate entity, has been bought …
2009-01-16 … Border Breaker Awards (EBBA's) were presented in a spectacular TV-show on the opening night of the EuroSonic Noorderslag Festival in Groningen (the Netherlands), in the presence of European Commissioner Ján Figel', numerous VIP’s and 1200 visitors. The awards show, which featured live performances by five …
2009-07-02 … England from absolute monarchy, completing a circle. Another circle was completed because Edward Russell’s ancestor William Russell had fought in the Netherlands alongside Philip Sidney, poet, thinker about poetry and senior administrator. Henry Sidney’s brother was Algernon Sidney, a politician and major …
2009-06-14 … Belgium (Flemish Interest), Italy (no extreme right MEPs) and France (National Front) total 6, gains from Hungary, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, UK and Netherlands total 13. Romania and Bulgaria brought in 3 + 2 as new member states. Representation of the most clearly extreme right parties has gone up by 12 to …
2009-01-09 … Union made more clear than in the formation of the Security Council. The body had nine seats. Three of those were permanently allocated to Austria, the Netherlands and Prussia, and those representatives also had the right of veto over all motions of the Security Council. The remaining six seats were allocated …
2008-08-07 … [6]. These would be the first of many enemies, since at one time or another the Royal Navy would fight the Moors, France, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United States, Denmark, Germany and other nations [7]. For eleven and a half centuries, it won glory for itself around the …
2008-03-15 … born on South African soil was Stephanus Johannes Hofmeyr, on 26 October 1760, to parents Jan and Magdela Hofmeyr who had recently arrived from Holland. Stephanus attended a small merchant school in southern Cape Town, went on to become a highly successful trader, and passed his wealth onto his …
2008-01-21 … body. Initially, six other countries were elected to serve two-year spells on the council – in 1946 they were Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, the Netherlands and Poland. The number of elected members, who are chosen to cover all parts of the globe, was increased to 10 in 1965. They are currently Belgium, …
2008-01-16 … federation, with an international constitution, was to include the 15 democracies of U.S., UK, France, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and South Africa. Ira Straus, the founder and U.S. coordinator of the Committee on Eastern Europe …
2008-03-29 … the War of Independence, America learned the painful lesson of reliance on foreign nations. The newborn United States had to rely on France and the Netherlands to supply everything from iron and gunpowder to blankets and clothing, and Britain routinely cut America’s supply lines. Seeing this weakness, …
2008-03-05 … in large part still spending its resources relying upon old World War i models. Along with other neglectful nations like France, Poland, Belgium and Holland, Britain saw its air fleet cut apart at the onset of the war. The United States could soon find itself in a similarly precarious position. According …
2008-12-11 … the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee: “Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the …
2007-10-31 … have shown contempt for public opinion, by bringing back essentially the failed EU Constitution, despite its rejection by referendum in France and Holland in 2005. More generally, we recall John Stuart Mill’s remark that “Where people lack fellow feeling, and especially where they read and speak …
2009-02-27 … behest of its more leftist elements, continued its investigation of the MP for promoting intolerance. Wilders is not a popular man among leftists in the Netherlands. Originally elected in 1998, Wilders is known worldwide for his vehement arguments against Islam. His vitriolic platform calls for such drastic …
2009-06-27 A Dutch-Japanese phrase book, compiled in 1770 for a trade legation from Holland -- the only Westerners permitted to reside on Japanese soil by the xenophobic shoguns -- had a mere 80 phrases. Its brevity suggests a paring down …
2009-07-06 … NATO or Afghan security forces. General Egon Ramms, from Germany, who heads up the NATO command center responsible for Afghanistan in Brunssum, the Netherlands, expressed his displeasure with the order as did US General David McKiernan, who heads up the NATO command in Afghanistan. Both felt that the order …
2009-05-05 … the current document and re-adopting it” (emphasis mine). Is it any wonder that the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia boycotted the conference along with Israel? These countries knew that even just attending the Durban ii conference would be …
2008-10-09 … only Germany and the German media.Many countries in Europe bother about who will be the next American President. McCain or Obama? A poll showed that the Netherlands and Germany support Barack Obama to a huge degree. 92 percent would vote for Obama in the Netherlands and 85 percent in Germany. Countries like …
2009-05-05 … the current document and re-adopting it” (emphasis mine). Is it any wonder that the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia boycotted the conference along with Israel? These countries knew that even just attending the Durban ii conference would be …
2009-05-05 … the current document and re-adopting it” (emphasis mine). Is it any wonder that the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia boycotted the conference along with Israel? These countries knew that even just attending the Durban ii conference would be …
2009-02-11 … the Lincoln's Birthday celebration. Geert Wilders: Persona Non Grata in Britain On behalf of the British Government, her Majesty's ambassador to the Netherlands served Dutch MP Geert Wilders today with a letter declaring him persona non grata in UK. Wilders is due for a screening of his short film "Fitna" on …
2009-07-02 … The Conservatives upped the capability ante and called for "hybrid aircraft carriers"--similar to vessels Italy, the Netherlands, UK and US already have (though I don't think the Conservatives had really thought this through): http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/num/ …
2008-07-28 … webpage): DDV is still alive. Coup De Grace played at the In Vitro II event, did a tour with Club Moral as backing band throughout Belgium, Holland and Germany and continues to play and record as Blood Axis. He collaborated with Boyd Rice and lives and works with Annabel Lee. ProduKtion made …
2008-07-21 … 50, Roland 606, EDP Gnat and more; all of these are synced by a computer and controlled with MIDI-controllers 9P, OT 301 (Overtoom 301) Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS http://www.radboudmens.com/ for information (culled from Radboud Mens – thanks!) JULY 24 RON ATHEY FRANKO B JULIANA SNAPPER JULIE TOLENTINO Resonate …
2008-07-08 … JULY 7 ASVA (U.S.) GRAVETEMPLE (Oren Ambarchi, Attila Csihar, Stephen O’ Malley, Matt “Skitz” Sanders) 8:30P, WORM (€ 10) Achterhaven 148 Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS 31 10 4767832 fon http://www.wormweb.nl for information (culled from Stephen O’Malley, and Oren Ambarchi, and WORM – thanks!) JULY 7 VIALKA (Eric …
2009-06-30 … after customs police at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam received a tip-off about a FedEx parcel sent from Colombia [Emphasis Added] to an address in the Netherlands. The parcel was found to contain a receipt for a £120m deposit at a bank in Bogotá [Emphasis Added] and a fake document authorising the transfer of …
2009-06-27 … outdated in the British case) with new ones during the 90's. Today's Leopard 2 users: Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapur, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey The tightened budgets, the focus on peacekeeping/occupation missions and …
2009-06-17 … to repeat this success with his latest work. Tommy Pallotta is an American film director and producer from Texas, currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Being this far away from his home country is one of the reasons why he became a BitTorrent enthusiast, no further explanation needed for most …
2009-06-08 … right-wing nationalists and xenophobes. Following on from the triumph of Geert Wilders, the anti-Islam campaigner, who came second with 17% in the Netherlands on Thursday, the hard-right and neo fascists chalked up further victories . The anti-Gypsy extremists in Hungary, Jobbik, took three of the …
2009-06-06 … was the thinking. The mainstream parties would have no trouble at all convincing the electorate that Europe was in the end a good thing for the Netherlands, or so they thought. But the PVV's Barry Madlener, a former real estate agent, ran a better campaign than expected. His message was clear and …
2009-05-22 … The move, reported by the Irish Times, is to be considered at the June EU summit. Spain, France, Sweden, Austria, Britain, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovenia and Malta stand to benefit from the extra seats if it goes through. http://euobserver.com/9/28172?print=1 JPTF 2009/05/22
2009-05-08 … – a manufacturer and supplier of food and food ingredients – which came fourth, having received €83.4 million. Some 165 companies in Spain, 47 in the Netherlands, 38 in Portugal, 22 in Belgium, 21 in the UK and 12 in both Bulgaria and Romania received more than a million euros. In France – the top overall …
2009-05-20 … in jails for 20 years, from 1980 to 2000. The other assistant commander was Sozdar Avesta, whose real name was Nuriye Kesbir. While living in The Netherlands, her extradition to Turkey came up and she ran away and came to Kandil. The third person with Murat Karayılan was Ahmet Deniz, who is in charge of …
2006-10-07 … way of doing things. Italy has spawned the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements. The Japanese aspire to what they call “Slow Life”. Holland and Denmark have Slow Life networks. An American professor of education recently published a manifesto for “Slow Schooling”. In Dutch, my book is …
2009-06-28 … Exchange was founded in April 1991. At present it quotes 372 companies (347 Polish and 25 foreign ones). The foreign ones include companies from the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czechia, the USA, Spain, and Estonia. The capitalisation of these companies now stands at PLN385 …
2009-06-17 … the Belarusian export to Russia shrank by 47.6% to $1868.2 million, with the country accounting for 33.4% of Belarus’ export volume. The export to the Netherlands went down by 51.5% to $1008.3 million. Consequences of the global crisis have affected Belarus’ trade with many other countries. Thus, in …
2009-05-27 … recuperation programmes of Belarusian children in the United Kingdom. Similar agreements have already been signed with Italy, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. TV channel Belarus-TV now fully digital From: BelTA The international satellite TV channel Belarus-TV switched to digital broadcasts today, said …
2009-05-17 … winner. It gave a maximum 12 points to Rybak along with Spain, Belarus, Germany, Sweden, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Denmark, Slovenia and Hungary. For those lucky enough to get tickets to the Olympiysky Stadium, it was a spectacular show, filled with …
2009-05-10 … means of foreign grant assistance. This year the Belarusian children went for recuperation to the following countries: Italy - 613, Germany - 298, the Netherlands - 84, France – 21 and Great Britain – 20 children. Cultural Scene... TV marathon “Our Victory” connected 11 CIS countries From: BelTA On May 9, the …
2009-05-06 … program want full partner relations with the EU, they should respect our values. Our values are democracy and respect for human rights,” the Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen said. Belarusian opposition politicians and human rights activists have repeatedly said a visit of Alyaksandr …
2009-04-29 … reported that neither the government nor the opposition appears to have the political will to meet the other side for talks -- a key EU wish. The Netherlands is the lone advocate of a tougher EU stance on Moldova (and another problematic partnership member, Belarus). But Germany and Poland head the EU's …
2009-04-19 … of the balance, Sergei Dubkov noted. Such concentration of the banking capital is typical for many countries with various economic models such as the Netherlands, Russia. For example in Russia, 90% of assets are concentrated in 30 major banks, while there are a total of 1,300 banks in the country. According …
2009-03-09 … NX553.A1L68 2008 […] 2008 […] Title: The Low countries : art and society in Flanders and […] the Netherlands : 16 […] P96.R35D38 2002 […] 2002 […] Title: The date-rape backlash [videorecording] : the media […] …
2009-02-02 … Surface and ground water, weathering, and soils […] edited by J.I. Drever ; executive editors, H.D […] Holland and K.K. Turekian […] QL496.H65 2009 […] 2009 […] Personal Author: H*olldobler, Bert, 1936 […] Title: The …
2009-01-14 … 1996 1996 Title: Beautiful music to love by [sound recording]. M1000.R66 1994 1994 Corporate Author: Viotta Ensemble. Title: The Romantic era in the Netherlands [sound recording]. M1799.W38I24 2002 2002 Corporate Author: Waverly Consort. Title: Iberia! [sound recording] : Spanish & Portuguese music of the …
2009-06-19 … the dishonest fudge that saw EU leaders trying to pretend that the Lisbon Treaty was different from the Constitutional Treaty rejected by France and the Netherlands in 2005. It is EU politics at its absolute worst." FT FT: Brussels blog Irish Times: Letter Irish Times Irish Times 2 Irish Independent Irish …
2009-06-18 … probably see the UK, Finland, Sweden and the Baltic states as the big winners of subsidies, whereas the traditionally agricultural France, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark will be the big losers. No link Libertas has said that it would be "virtually impossible" for it to play a role in the second referendum …
2009-06-17 … "to the wire" at tomorrow's EU summit. There is still no political agreement on the legal form the 'guarantees' will take with Britain, Poland and the Netherlands opposing any solution which will require ratifying a protocol with the 'guarantees' through their parliaments. "Thursday and Friday will be about …
2009-06-16 … name and organisation. For further information, please contact Pieter Cleppe at pieter@openeurope.org.uk or on 00 32 477 68 46 08. Europe UK and Netherlands want Irish 'guarantees' on Lisbon Treaty to be Council 'decisions', rather than protocols; Irish government looks to bring second referendum forward …
2009-06-20 … that Veolia would no longer have a key role in city's urban transport system. This victory in Iran, along with others France, UK, Sweden, and Holland, has cost Veolia an estimated $7 billion in lost contracts and were key in pushing the company to leave the Jerusalem light rail project. Veolia and …
2007-06-27 … person was killed and another seriously injured. The reason for the shooting may have been the result of an argument in a relationship. RTV Noord-Holland reports that the male gunman tried to kill himself immediately after shooting a 24-year-old woman. He has been taken to hospital in serious …
2009-06-29 … Valero said last week that it will continue to seek acquisition opportunities after Total SA bought the stake it had agreed to purchase in a Netherlands refining venture. About 2 million barrels of daily U.S. refining capacity will shut down because carbon costs will be several times the operating …
2009-06-28 … Science said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century - when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland - could start in 2012-2015 and reach its peak in 2055-2060. The late Rhodes Fairbridge of …
2009-06-19 … national science academies, including the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences and the academies of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Netherlands. In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald (June 2, 2009 Scientists warn acid is killing oceans) Royal Society president Martin Rees, an …
2009-06-15 … terrifies our kids. Former US vice president Al Gore famously depicted how a sea-level rise of 6m would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, Bangladesh and Shanghai, even though the UN estimates that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that, and do no such thing. When confronted with …
2008-10-13 … http://klstudio.wik.is/ Kennisland (Knowledgeland http://www.kennisland.nl/) is an independent Dutch think thank with the overall goal to make Holland smarter. They try to achieve this goal by means of research, advice, projects and networks focused on four main themes: creative economy, open …
2008-05-13 … SIEGES […] Nationalist Party 146 172 51,79 35 53,8 Labour Party 134 092 47,51 30 46,2 Democratic Alternative (Greens) 1 929 0,68 Independent 20 0,01 NETHERLANDS The Centre Democrats (CD, Dutch: Centrum Democraten) was a Dutch nationalist political party espousing an anti-immigrant program. The CD was …
2009-06-12 … from leaving Romania pending a criminal trial for kidnapping. Xenophobes and populists have been elected in old European Union members such as the Netherlands too. But their east European counterparts make the westerners seem tame. Mr Becali’s fellow victor on the Greater Romania list is Corneliu Vadim …
2009-06-06 … of the Blitz with us in London. Few if any countries counted as truly “conquered”. The Nazis met systematic armed resistance in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and other countries as well. By contrast, the Channel Islands, which were under German …
2008-06-04 … nihilism and religion, and what kind of religion is he connecting with nihilism? Mechteld Jansen, Indonesian and Moluccan Immigrant Churches in the Netherlands: Missionary History and Challenge Abstract: As a result of immigration of many Christians from all parts of the world to the Netherlands, about …
2008-12-22 … DECEMBER 27 “Magnetband Untergrund – Teil Zwei” (3-hour radio broadcast about the former East German tape music scene on VPRO ) 9P, Radio 6 all of THE NETHERLANDS http://www.wormweb.nl for information (culled from WORM – thanks!) DECEMBER 27 DJ HITMACHINE vs. MEEUW HARRY MERRY JACK THE RAPPER (virtual) LDQ …
2009-06-24 … Austria, so far supported by Bulgaria Cyprus Hungary Ireland Greece Latvia Lithuania Malta Slovenia and referring to an earlier declaration made by the Netherlands, demands the clearly defined legal right for each member state to ban GMOs: "The legally soundest solution we envisage is a set of minor amendments …
2008-11-05 … ESPEN REINERTSEN – tenor saxophone and flute MARTIN TAXT – tuba Kraakgeluiden 9:30P, Smart Project Space (€ 5) Arie Biemondstraat 105-113 Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS http://www.dnk-amsterdam.com for information (culled from Kraakgeluiden – thanks!) NOVEMBER 3 DAMO SUZUKI (feat. Rubén García (programming, synth, …
2008-10-31 … Rimbaud – thanks!) OCTOBER 30 HELEEN van HAEGENBORGH & ESTHER VENROOY – music for piano, electronics and dsp Theater Kikker Ganzenmarkt 14 Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS http://www.theaterkikker.nl or http://www.myspace.com/esthervenrooy for information (culled from the news – thanks!) OCTOBER 30 DJ BENETTI (William …
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