Commission proposes granting legal migrants easier access to the EU
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OpenEurope 4 days ago (via openeurope.org.uk)
The answers are not really and I sure hope not! Another question? Is the United States in a liquidity trap that's loosely defined as enormous amounts of cash injected into the system by the Fed to lower interest rates while not having the desired effect of stimulating economic growth? 2012 GDP forecast (Congressional Budget Office): 2.0% reduced from a forecast of 2.7%. 2012 unemployment rate...
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PoliticsandFinance on 2nd Feb 2012 (via politicsandfinance.blogspot.com)
Home Secretary Theresa May has promised to make it easier for communities to force police to deal with anti-social behaviour.
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BBCPolitics on 30th Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
As we reported here on LibDemVoice yesterday, Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable yesterday announced to the House of Commons a number of measures to curb excessive boardroom pay: (Available on the BBC website here.) Here’s how the BBC summarised the proposed measures: making firms’ remuneration reports easier to understand, and requiring them to explain
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 24th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
Legislation which will make it easier for small venues to host live music has been cleared in the House of Commons.
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BBCPolitics on 20th Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
It's not well known, but the country we buy the biggest share of our imported oil from isn't in the Middle East,but our neighbor Canada. In order to process it cheaper and easier, Canada and US oil companies wanted to construct a pipeline between the drilling sites in Alberta, Canada and American refineries known as the Keystone Pipeline. Aside from providing thousands of construction jo...
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 16th Jan 2012 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)
This morning, the Education Secretary went on the Today programme to explain his plans to make it easier to sack teachers. Here’s the full transcript: James Naughtie: From the start of the next school year in England, head teachers will find it easier to remove teachers that are considered to be under-performers. The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, thinks the process is too cumberso...
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Spectator on 13th Jan 2012 (via spectator.co.uk)
Michael Gove’s giving a robust defence of his plans to make it quicker and easier for schools to sack bad teachers. ‘You wouldn’t tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or an underperforming midwife at your child’s birth,’ he says in the Mail. ‘Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?’ And he was similarly...
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Spectator on 13th Jan 2012 (via spectator.co.uk)