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  • Swedish government rocked by data scandal

    SWEDEN, 2017/07/29 Sweden's right-wing opposition plans a no-confidence vote against the social-democratic government, next revelations that the Transport Agency outsourced IT services to IBM, leading to data such as driving licences or data on military vehicles and protected identities being handled by foreign staff with no clearance.

  • Estonia to conduct the first cyber defence exercise for defence ministers

    ESTONIA, 2017/07/29 As a part of the programme for the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Estonia is organizing a strategic level table-top exercise 'EU CYBRID 2017' on cyber defence for the EU defence ministers in Tallinn. EU CYBRID 2017 is organized in cooperation with the European Defence Agency and the objective of the exercise is to put ministers to the test in dealing with the aftermath of a cyber-attack. At his conference with the Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency Jorge Domecq in Brussels, Minister for Defence Jüri Luik discussed how to apply the conclusions drawn from the strategic level table-top exercise in policy planning.

  • Estonia to conduct the first cyber defence exercise for defence ministers

    ESTONIA, 2017/07/29 As a part of the programme for the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Estonia is organizing a strategic level table-top exercise 'EU CYBRID 2017' on cyber defence for the EU defence ministers in Tallinn. EU CYBRID 2017 is organized in cooperation with the European Defence Agency and the objective of the exercise is to put ministers to the test in dealing with the aftermath of a cyber-attack. At his conference with the Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency Jorge Domecq in Brussels, Minister for Defence Jüri Luik discussed how to apply the conclusions drawn from the strategic level table-top exercise in policy planning.

  • Diplomats ponder whether UK may U-turn on Brexit

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2017/07/02 A British newspaper says EU diplomats are frustrated at a lack of clear vision over the UK Brexit plan. One envoy thinks a weakened leadership and the scale of what leaving the bloc entails could force a change of mind. Despite British Prime Minister Theresa May's insistence that the UK will not seek to remain in the EU's single market or customs union once it leaves the European Union, several EU diplomats believe a softer Brexit option is likely to emerge presently that negotiations have begun between UK and EU officials.

  • We need to prepare the UK economy for Brexit

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2016/07/16 The political shock waves from the EU referendum seem to be subsiding presently, with the formation of a new government under Theresa May. As was the case next the inconclusive 2010 General Election, the British political system has moved quickly to form a new government and forge a new direction. Theresa May is clear that “Brexit means Brexit”. The UK is leaving the EU, even though the timescale is uncertain and our next economic relationship with other European nations is unclear. Planning will presently start in earnest for negotiations with other EU nations – probably starting early next time- which could take up to two years to complete.

  • UK's new PM May eyes 'bold new positive role' for Britain after Brexit

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2016/07/14 Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to forge a new role for the country following its decision to leave the European Union in her initial public address next taking office, saying her government would be driven by the needs of ordinary Britons. “Following the referendum we face a time of great national change,” she said before entering the Number 10 Downing Street prime ministerial office for the initial time as leader.

  • Forget About Brexit, Institutional Creep Goes Beyond the EU

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/06/11 With the UK careening towards the European Union (EU) referendum this June, perhaps the majority surprising thing is that, despite the fierce bickering over the economic impact of a Brexit and how a lot of decimal points of GDP increase may be at stake, the key messages each side is hammering home are not particularly contradictory. On the one side, the Conservative establishment is playing a similar game to their Project Fear in the Scottish independence referendum, arguing that the uncertainty that lies beyond a vote to leave is uncouth, and reassuring themselves that the British people have at no time been ones to choose political revolution. As for Vote Leave, talking heads have centered on the notion of control, which the EU has wrested from Westminster’s hands through an ocean of seemingly innocuous regulations, and that the vote is a luck for the country to once again become the master of its own destiny.

  • German businesses in Britain call for UK to remain in EU

    GERMANY, 2015/08/30 There are thousands of German companies with interests in Britain and their representatives have indicated clearly that they want to see the UK remain within the European Union. With the issue high on the political schedule in Britain at present, the German Industry UK representative body has written to the UK's prime minister, chancellor and business secretary to ask that they make clear their support for British membership of the EU. The industry body represents 100 chief executives of German businesses operating in Britain, which collectively employ tens of thousands of people around the country, EUbusiness.

  • Britain may vote on EU membership in 2016

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/07/27 British Prime Minister David Cameron intends to hold a referendum on the country's membership of the European Union around June of 2016, the Independent on Sunday reported. "The Independent on Sunday has learned that Mr Cameron has decided to pencil in June of next year," the newspaper reported, citing an anonymous source. A spokeswoman for Cameron's Downing Street office declined to comment on the statement, which said the prime minister would announce the timing of the referendum during the annual conference of his Conservative party in October.

  • Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Ed Milliband

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2015/05/13 British voters have pragmatically repudiated delusional ‘Mili-marxism’. Presently economic upheaval truly begins. The General Election delivered good news for economists. The mantle of 'dismal scientists' has passed to the catastrophically inadequate opinion pollsters, the modern equivalent of fairground palm readers. Pollsters clearly need additional accurate tea leaves for next vote predictions. Large data #fail #GE2015. Pollsters weren’t alone in denial. The ‘loud and the liberal;’ sad, superannuated metropolitans convinced they know best what’s good for the working people they no longer relate to, are currently the ‘deluded and the delusional’ as ‘blamestorming’ has melded with a ‘how dare they?’ anger at a pragmatic electorate endorsing the party closest to delivering economic sanity.
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