Voodoo Economics Revisited

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.

to 31 July 1993 and cost estimate for the period from 1 to

This is an updated and extended version of a post at yanisvaroufakis.eu.

Revised income estimates for the biennium 2000 2001

Revised income estimates for the biennium 2002 2003

Revised income estimates for the biennium 2004 2005

Revised income estimates for the biennium 2006 2007

30 April 1993, revised cost estimate for the period from 1 May

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

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council

Revised estimates in respect of matters of which the Security Council is seized

Contingency fund consolidated statement of programme budget implications and revised estimates

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

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

Revised budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004

Revised budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005

Revised budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

Revised budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007

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

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

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

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2001

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2003

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2006

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

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session and resumed substantive sessions of 2004

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive and resumed substantive sessions of 2007

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its resumed organizational and first substantive sessions of 2005

Not every PHP directive is documented below.

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.

For example, a new directive requires non household customers to be able to choose their electricity supplier by July 2004 and their gas supplier by July 2007.

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 provision, adopted to satisfy countries worried about their own potential breakaway regions (Chechnya in Russia, and Tibet in China), violates the principle, engraved in common sense if not in international law, that genocide nullifies sovereignty that a state cannot seek to extinguish a people and yet insist on governing them.

A revised version of the directive that reduces its sectoral scope and makes a number of compromises with the country of origin principle is now before the European Parliament. Even this limited version would constitute progress most of the gains arise from removing the red tape that complicates cross border establishment of small and medium size service enterprises and limits competition in broad sectors of the economy.

A revised version of the directive that reduces its sectoral scope and makes a number of compromises with the country of origin principle is now before the European Parliament.

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.

This directive stifles public discourse, violates values enshrined in our National Constitution, and creates an environment of fear when frank discussion is most needed.

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.

Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its first, resumed second, and third sessions and its first, second and third special sessions in 2006