When a directive is issued, you don't know who is responsible instead, they are known as, say, Directive 17.62 (meaning that it is directive no. 17 issued in 1962).

This directive was delivered orally to on duty editors.

A little transparency inevitably leads to more.

increase transparency.

No transparency here.

implementation is a compiler directive that says you re about to present the code for the guts of a class.

Institutional quality and lack of transparency are not compatible.

But is greater transparency always good?

Algeria needs a fiscal transparency law.

During the referendum campaign in France preceding the vote on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty, the proposed directive was vilified as undermining the rights of labor, symbolized by that dreaded bogeyman, the Polish plumber. These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU member states subject in most respects to host country rules.

These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU member states subject in most respects to host country rules.

The report is being published by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative ( TAInitiative) along with a over a dozen other reports on the global transparency movement.

The weak and diluted EU Takeover Directive, adopted after more than a decade of debate, fails to facilitate the cross border mergers within Europe that are needed to build world champions.

The directive on free movement implies a new era of direct migration into West European welfare states.

How Much Transparency is Too Much?

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The best guideline is to not permit disagreements to spill over and complicate or infect the relationship.

In a series of speeches over recent years, Cameron has spoken about a European reform agenda centered on increasing the EU s competitiveness and improving its institutions transparency.

All that is needed is political direction, so that the European Commission can establish the necessary governance structures.

A chronic lack of transparency in economic transactions often accompanied by corruption.

The second route is the lack of transparency in decision making.

During the referendum campaign in France preceding the vote on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty, the proposed directive was vilified as undermining the rights of labor, symbolized by that dreaded bogeyman, the Polish plumber.

Regulators can do a great deal, but they need political direction from the highest level in order to make genuine progress.

A different form of transparency received much more attention last month.

Lack of transparency got the US financial system into this trouble.

appropriate transparency and international regulation of loan and capital markets.

Countries have to create their own safeguards to protect themselves against the kinds of upheaval that is shaking Asia.

Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.

The EU Commission also favors voluntary agreements aimed at strengthening transparency.

Its internal governance processes are underdeveloped and lack transparency.

This means to make sure that political power is controlled and political processes transparent.

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US tech companies call for more transparency on government surveillance

If we assume that a causal relationship exists, the European directive seems to be fairly well designed, with one main shortcoming.

The problem is that the French government is barred from doing this under an EU directive that it signed last year, which was specifically introduced to improve transparency in banking mergers.

Such regulatory reform is now under consideration by the European Commission, and French support is imperative if the EU is to announce this month the necessary legislative moves to promote transparency.

The Seventh Meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes took place in Berlin this week, bringing together representatives from 122 countries and jurisdictions, as well as the EU.

The problem in Bolivia is a lack of transparency, both when contracts are signed and afterwards.

(a) Enhancing the transparency of and promoting the contribution of the public to decision making processes

The widespread desire for transparency around the issue of tax evasion is completely understandable.

The Bolkestein directive on services played badly, but there is no question that European consumers pay too much for many services.

At the EU s autumn summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed in a joint statement that more transparency is needed in financial markets.

Coupled with a notable lack of transparency, this understandably concerns China s neighbors.

The same can be said for transparency, accountability, and regulation of the bank tax.

The lack of an authoritative estimate of the total number of nuclear weapons attests to the need for greater transparency.