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peace prize laureate the "head of a separatist group". No date for Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama has been announced, but White House spokesman Mike Hammer said last month that "the president has made clear to the Chinese government that we intend to meet with the Dalai Lama, it has been his every intention". The White House did not have an immediate comment today. Bilateral relations have been strained by the US announcement on Friday that it planned to sell $6.4bn (£4bn) of arms to Taiwan.

started by student and joined by workers against the traditional society). A strike is declared started by law after one hour stop working by several employees. This employees need to have common recommendation. A “préavis de grêve” (strike notice) has to be presented at least 5 days before (in public sector) and just before (in private sector) the beginning of the strike. A demonstration need to be declared previously to the “prefecture” because of the security organization (Accompanying police forces

set to reach some 14 % of GDP in 2010 – 2011 from a mere 5 % recorded in 2008 Traditional savings products such as bank savings have been strongly supported by attractive returns, while investment funds and listed shares recorded a fast and impressive recovery supported by the favourable market performance. The first year of a fully functioning private pension system has also supported wealth accumulation The consumption boom phase led by rapid lending growth during recent years approached its end in

DONY President Institute for European Studies ULB THE BELGIAN PRESIDENCY AND THE LISBON TREATY The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force on 1 December 2009 implies many changes as concerns the presidency of the EU A kind of transitional period has been respected for the Spain’s Presidency beginning in January since Spain had had to prepare itself for a conventional Presidency in the event that the Treaty would not be ratified The ambit of the Belgian presidency is to implement completely the rules

general population of the country. The policy was widely circulated both at the centre and states upto the district level. Concerned Central Departments, State Government and other organisations are being advised to implement the policy. Government has continued with its commitment to provide essential primary health care, emergency life saving services, services under the National Disease Control Programmes totally free of cost to all individuals and essential health care services to people below

years, Franceloc has been offering quality hotel breaks by the sea or in the mountains. Mainly located in the Alps, Franceloc offers a wide range of resorts from the most popular and internationally renowned ( the 2 Alps, Alpe d'Huez, les Menuires, Avoriaz, La Plagne) to the little attractive villages always connected to larger skiing resorts ( Valmorel, St Colomban des Villards, Oz en Oisans..) through to the sunniest resorts ( Puy St Vincent, Isola 2000, Auron). Franceloc has also another destination

The huge developement of economy and trade in the last decades of twentieth century, with the subsequent rise of a strong worldwide competition beetween companies, has made the global economic environment best suitable for biggest companies, i.e. only those which, enjoying a broad network and scale economies, can compete. This has started an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions, in Australia and overseas: in order to complete such big financial operations, an increasing amount of money

that many cases) Law report abbreviation o Each report has an abbreviation for its title (avoid long names being written out) All England Law Reports (All ER) Appeal Cases (AC) Chancery Division (Ch D) Criminal Appeal Reports (Cr App R) Family Division (Fam) King’s Bench (KB) Queen’s Bench (QB) Weekly Law Reports (WLR) Page number o Page of the book Cozens v Brutus [1973] AC 854 Btw. Neutral citation comes first. Development of law o Law has been gradually built over the centuries. There are many

several of the original provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA) and the Equal Pay Act 1970 (EqPA) have been removed or amended in the light of relevant decisions of the ECJ. Furthermore, Article 141 has "direct effect" (see ), as have directives in the public sector, so that individual claimants can rely upon them even before the relevant domestic legislation has been changed. The starting point is that the European Communities Act 1972 provides that rights and obligations under European

(Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America, and in South America as far south as Peru. It has also been introduced to New Zealand and some countries in Europe, such as Finland and the Czech Republic. The species is most common east of the Rocky Mountains, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah, California, Hawaii