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ECONOMIST Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:29:56 GMT
ON JANUARY 25th the European Commission formally unveiled an overhaul of the continent's data-protection rules. The proposal for a snappily titled "Regulation on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data” is unlikely to become a bestseller. Yet the 117-page booklet might affect every one of the European Union's 500m citizens, every one of its businesses, and many more beyond. It is “the biggest, most impactful piece of legislation that the European Union could produce unless they developed tax powers,” says Joe McNamee of European Digital Rights, a lobby group.The law has two main goals: to give individuals greater control over their personal information and to make it easier for companies to do business in Europe (see this week's print edition). Perhaps more importantly, it also, for the first time, gives Europeans what has been dubbed the “right to be forgotten”. This would require data-hoarding organisations,..
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GUARDIAN Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:41:58 GMT
Ex-Turkish Cypriot leader, who helped form the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983, passed away on Friday
Former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, a fierce supporter of Turkish Cypriot independence and key figure in Cyprus's decades-old ethnic conflict, died on Friday, family members and doctors said. He was 88.
Denktash, who had experienced deteriorating health for the past 10 years, was admitted to hospital on 8 January with dehydration which rapidly developed into multiple organ failure.
"He had the soul of a fighter," his son, Serdar Denktash, told state TV in a live broadcast.
Denktash spent several weeks in hospital in 2011 following a stroke.
A controversial figure viewed as a national hero by Turks, but vilified by many Greeks, Denktash held centre stage in the past half-century of the Cyprus conflict.
The island, home to Turks and Greeks, experienced upheaval and ethnic strife after independence from Britain in 1960, and was divided in a Turkish invasion..
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ECONOMIST Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:00:45 GMT
IN DECEMBER 1991, after a European Union summit in Maastricht that laid the foundations for a single currency, Britain’s prime minister, John Major, returned home saying he had won “game, set and match for Britain” by securing an opt-out. Two decades on (almost to the day), with the euro close to collapse, another Tory prime minister, David Cameron, returned from an all-night summit to be hailed as a conquering hero by his supporters. Mr Cameron had stood alone against 26 leaders in vetoing a revision of the European Union treaties, on the ground that it failed to offer safeguards for Britain’s vital financial-services industry.For all the praise showered on Mr Cameron for his “British bulldog” spirit, the leader who could most boast of winning this time round was Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. He advanced his quest for an “economic government” for the euro zone—code for the creation of an inner core run mainly by leaders rather than supranational institutions like the....
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