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...And it’s not true that semicolons should only be used to divide two clauses that are each sentences in their own right....
...In a speech to Nato, the US president failed to reaffirm Article 5, the alliance’s mutual defence clause....
...Those seeking to give their brains a break from the Fed’s verbosity, could turn instead to Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, at a grade level of about 13, or The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich...
...However, Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, argued that any revision to the 40 per cent target would probably be upwards....
...The French paper suggests that all “standard-setting” regulations should have “rendez-vous clauses” and “adjustment clauses” that would allow EU authorities to dip back into already-passed laws in case technical...
...Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, has likened today’s energy challenge to the problems faced 60 years ago – problems that spawned the European Coal and Steel Community....
...Thus Joseph’s latest journey into the mysteries of the pari passu clause begins....
...long-standing opponent of eurozone aid, said summit decisions about direct bank aid and readier help to lower sovereign-bond rates had seen Germany “finally and irrevocably” abandon the EU’s no bailout clause...
...We clearly reaffirm that the decisions taken on 21 July and 26/27 October concerning Greek debt are unique and exceptional; standardised and identical Collective Action Clauses will be included, in such...
...Fellow Brussels Blogger Josh Chaffin has a scoop in this morning’s paper on the five-page “interim report” on EU treaty changes for this week’s summit written by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president...
...Here is why we at FT Alphaville think Jurre Hermans’ proposal for (or subtly ironic warning of the costs of?) a Greek eurozone exit is absolutely brilliant....
...They also called for all 17 members to insert a binding clause into their constitutions to set a ceiling on public borrowing, intended to make balanced budgets the norm, by mid-2012....
...Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, announced that Mr Cameron’s veto had forced his partners to contract an intergovernmental treaty that would exclude the UK....
...Only Britain and Denmark have legal “opt-out” clauses; the other eight non-members are expected eventually to join the eurozone....
...“Collective action clauses are already used in the US and UK.”...
...“It is a single package,” she declared, saying the summit must issue precise instructions for Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, to draft a limited treaty amendment before the end of March...
...Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, will make a proposal by December....
...After a summit meeting that stretched into the early hours of Friday morning, Herman Van Rompuy, the EU’s permanent president, said that he had been tasked with coming up with an amendment to create a new...
...President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has indicated that his proposal on limited Treaty change to the European Council at its next meeting will reflect today’s decision....
...Ms Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, were last week putting the final touches to their new bail-in rules, to introduce collective action clauses in sovereign bond contracts....
...The Italians also won a safeguard clause that would open the possibility for member states to reinstate tariffs if the deal results in a flood of Korean car imports....
...Unhappily, some are tempted to adorn the treaty blueprint with extra provisions while others are being selective in choosing which of its clauses they prefer....
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