If the European Union means anything, it is this; that yes, the Member States should open up their economies and markets to competition, but at the same time they are not alone, and the European Union is there to facilitate challenges, to help us exploit them and to reduce the negative impact that may result from them.

2a. Where an AIFM, acting alone or in concert, has reached the position of being able to exercise controlling rights, the target company shall inform the representatives of its employees or, where there are no such representatives, the employees themselves, comprehensively and in due time about the take-over, through the submission of all relevant documentation referred to in Article 9(5) of Directive 2004/25/EC as appropriate, if and to the extent to which the conduct of business is not jeopardised.

We're offended to be wasting our time here tonight, Mr. Chair, and we believe the only responsible thing to do is to put this bill to bed, take one step back, start all over again with genuine consultation, and introduce legislation to amend the Indian Act based on the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (0000) As a starting point, Bill C-7 should really limit its scope, limit its parameters, to simply giving meaning and definition to section 35 of the Constitution and the implementation of the treaty process; to returning to the negotiating table; and to giving life and meaning to the la ...[+++]nguage in treaty documents that aboriginal people still have confidence in, despite their recent experience with the Government of Canada.

He told me he spends a lot of time on his own up the mountain, deep in the woods, sometimes at night because wood that is cut by the full moon burns better in the fireplace – but I have always known that.

The EEA Council: - welcomed the progress made along the lines of the pragmatic strategy endorsed by the EEA Council at its meeting in May 1995 for introducing diagonal cumulation between the EC/EFTA countries, treated as one territory for the purposes of rules of origin, and the associated CEECs and underlined the importance of the timely implementation of the strategy defined by the European Council meeting in Essen towards a European cumulation; - stressing the importance of finalising Protocol 3 with a view to improving market access for processed agricultural products in trade between the EU and its EFTA partners, urged the EEA Joint Committee to complete this part of the EEA Agreement, recognizing the need to find arrangements which c ...[+++]omply with the Uruguay Round settlement; - noted the positive developments in discussions on closer co-operation in the veterinary field; - noted the resumption of the discussions on the incorporation of the Regulation on maritime cabotage into the EEA Agreement. 6. As regards maintenance of homogeneity in the EEA, which entails the uniform application of common legislation across the European Economic Area, the EEA Council: - noted that the Council of the European Union had recently established a Code of Conduct with regard to declarations made in the Council, emphasising a more open and transparent practice; - welcomed the decision of the Council of the European Union, on the basis of the privileged relationship between the EU and the EFTA States participating in the EEA and in the interest of maintaining homogeneity, to authorise the Commission, bearing in mind the Code of Conduct, to bring relevant declarations made by the Council and/or the Commission in the EU Council's minutes to the attention of the EFTA States participating in the EEA. 7. The EEA Council stated its commitment to policies aimed at securing equal opportunities between women and men and underlined the importance of considering the further development of ...

At the same time, we recognize that feminists have valid concerns about division of parental responsibilities and so on, and we are recommending that these kinds of issues be addressed within the framework of equally shared parenting so that children's rights and needs are still respected, but at the same time we can ensure that equally shared parenting is truly equal in a broad comprehensive sense rather than in a narrow sense, which only reinforces male power.