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Digital Pathology Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Reflections on Faith and Culture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wesley Smith's First Things article entitled "Pulling the Plug on the Conscience Clause," begins this way: Over the past fifty years, the purposes and practices of medicine have changed radically. Where medical ethics was once life-affirming, today’s treatments and medical procedures increasingly involve the legal taking of human life. The litany is familiar: More than one million pregnancies...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
When the concept of a new president for Europe was first drawn up by Valery Giscard d’Estaing, it was assumed widely that the august former French President was writing a job description for himself. It would be a role fit for a former President of France, or Prime Minister of Britain, perhaps.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
• England join Europe's elite international teams in pot one • Rep of Ireland and N Ireland joined by Scotland in pot three England have been named among the top seeds for February's European Championship qualifying draw, but Scotland are in the third band after slipping down the rankings. Fabio Capello's side won nine of their 10 qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup and they will again be...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From Tony Blair to Herman Van Rompuy, the contenders for top European jobs are overwhelmingly male Right now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union's member states will be milling around . Gordon Brown will be lobbying for Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy will be trying to persuade people he is not as anonymous as many fear, and José Manuel Barroso will be pottering...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Brussels will also host elections of pan-European Foreign Minster who will be vested with more competences than President.
Euractive (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
France could decide to support Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker as the EU's first permanent president during a summit in Brussels today (19 November) in exchange for the chair of the Eurogroup, EurActiv France reports.
Social Europe Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ordinary people will only start voting for social democrats once more if they ditch the policies that are making their lives a misery. Social-democratic parties were the main losers of the 2009 European elections. Green parties may have done well in their traditional strongholds (France, Germany, Sweden, Luxembourg), but their scores remain marginal elsewhere. And almost [...]
getfoodnews (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Following its study of 18 countries and 18000 consumers, Deloitte concludes shoppers in western Europe are each set to spend, on average, €190 on food over the seasonal period, a fall of 3.5 per cent on 2008 figures. And reflecting the challenging economic climate, cost is the number one criteria. "Price and value for money are far and away the prime concerns for consumers this Christmas,"...
Sify (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Britain is locked in a dramatic clash with Germany over backing former prime minister Tony Blair's bid to be President of Europe.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beverage Packaging Holdings (Luxembourg) II S.A. will host a conference call on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm Central European Time (CET) to review its third quarter 2009 financial results. The call will include prepared remarks and a question and answer session. It will be open in a listen-only mode by telephone. Interested parties may listen to the teleconference...
Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Mr Belgium - (not Rompuy, but the Bilderberg Chairman Viscount Etienne Davignon) - says Blair "wrong man". Oh, yes? Meanwhile Rompuy speaks to the Bilderberg Group.
Bloomberg (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga are in the running as European Union leaders struggle to pick the bloc’s first president today.
Peter Martin (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
What were they thinking? How could our leaders have made changes designed to "better target and strengthen the application of capital gains tax" without seeing they would later allow companies associated with the misleadingly-named Texas Pacific Group to make a billion or dollars so in profit capital-gains-tax-free from the sale of Myer because they were registered not in somewhere like...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Interesting team, that Katusha and an interesting pick-up on their part, picking Joaquin Rodriguez from Caisse d'Epargne. For CN today comes word on the race schedule for J-Rod next year and it's much like in previous years, with two exceptions: there's Tour de France for the first time and there's no Alejandro Valverde to support. Here's his early season (up to the Tour) schedule: warm-up: Volta a...
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