U.S. business leaders are hoping that the new U.S.-Chile free-trade agreement will inject new life into an economy that until recently was one of South America’s few success stories.
There is some reason for optimism.
Since a similar Chilean free-trade pact with the European Union took effect on Feb. 1,
The U.S. government has asked the World Trade Organisation to break the European Union’s five-year de facto moratorium on the importation of new genetically modified food products, or GMOs. Over a dozen nations support the U.S. request.
The matter is significant to Third World countries that depend on Europe as an
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder began the task of reducing Germany’s vast network of social programmes when the plan was approved by 90 percent of Social Democratic Party delegates in a meeting on 1 June 2003.
The plan, known as Agenda 2010, would reduce unemployment benefits and give employers added flexibility
America’s current approach to airport security is seriously flawed. By devoting equal resources to every passenger and every piece of luggage, it spends too much on people who are no threat and too little on the few who might be, according to a new report by Reason Public Policy Institute.
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Criminals convicted of non-violent offences in Norway are let loose for months or even years while they wait for a berth to open up in one of the countrys few prisons, says the Wall Street Journal.
This “prison queue” reflects Norway’s long humanitarian tradition and mild attitude toward imprisonment.
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