2014/01/12データアイテム The debate on the rebate: Should there be a general compensation mechanism in the EU resources system to solve the net position problem? Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1, University of Twente (Bedrijf Bestuur en Technologie), 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the conclusion of the European Council in December 2005, the Presidency mentions only in a single sentence what had filled covers of newspapers the days before: “The European Council reached agreement on the Financial Perspective 2007-2013 as set out in doc. 15915/05.”1 It was the second attempt after a former Council six month before, and also this time it needed tough negotiations and a number of revised proposals, until the quoted sentence could be printed.
The reason for this controversy can be summarized in an old German adage: “Beim Geld hört die Freundschaft auf.” Those who are partners in other situations begin to bargain over every Euro they have to spend for the EU budget, giving short-term national interests priority to long-term EU interests. In some way this is understandable, despite the fact that the Council should bring forward the European project – politicians are elected in the nation states and have to justify every Euro they leave in Brussels. Besides this, the term of “solidarity” has neither in Article I-2 of the “Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe”2 , nor in article 1 of the “Treaty on European Union”3 been concretised.
But nevertheless the difficulties surrounding the agreement on the Financial Perspective are symptoms of a serious problem: Countries which pay more into the budget than they get back, the so-called net contributors, feel to have unacceptable high costs in relation to the benefits they gain from their EU-Membership. The debate on “net positions” is one of the major reasons which lead to the low acceptance of the European Union in public: According to Eurobarometer, 62% of the population are worried “about the increasing costs for the Member States of building Europe.”4 Only the fear of a transfer of jobs to other Member States was mentioned more often (73%). 【本文抜粋】 2014年01月12日 15時 日曜日feat. D.O フェニックス 続き＞＞
01月12日 Carrots (A Shelby Nichols Adventure) Shelby Nichols is an average woman who is married to the only guy she ever fell for. Her life is organized and predictable, revolving around her husband and two children. All that changes the day she stops at the grocery store for some carrots. As the cashier rings up her purchases, a gunman is busy robbing the bank inside the store. When a customer grabs the robber's mask, he is shot and everyone runs for cover. Everyone except Shelby, who finds herself face to face with the killer. The next thing she knows, she's lying on the floor with a bullet wound to her head. Luckily, the bullet only grazes her scalp, and she doesn't suspect any lasting affects until later, when she suddenly 'hears' what people are thinking. With this uncanny ability, her life takes on a whole new dimension. Her kids think she's bossy and too old to understand them, but that's nothing compared to her husband. He says he loves her, but what is it about the redhead at work that he doesn't want her to know? As if that isn't enough, the gunman knows she can identify him, and he's out to silence her forever. In her fight to stay alive, she is saved from certain death by a handsome hit-man with ties to organized crime. This pulls Shelby even deeper into danger, where knowing someone's thoughts can not only hurt her feelings, but get her killed. 「記事引用」 2014年01月12日 13時 日曜日feat. D.O D.O 続き＞＞
01/12 Powder The price of fame is high as Ian, the manager of a small night club in 1985 New York, is all but forgotten when the band—and the hot lead singer—that he discovered rises to stardom. Faced with continued exposure to the band through the media, it is up to Ian to put together the pieces of his broken heart and work toward his dream of owning the best club in the city. キャッチコピー引用 2014年01月12日 13時 日曜日feat. D.O next 続き＞＞
