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No Country On Euro-waiting List In Shape To Join :ECB
yahoo.com 14 hours, 18 minutes agoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - None of the eight countries on the waiting list to join the euro are meeting the required standards at the moment, the European Central Bank's latest convergence report said on Wednesday. Before the debt crisis, European Union member states that were not yet part of the currency union were queuing up to join the bloc, but interest has faded since and right now only Latvia is on track to join the single currency in the next two years. ...
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USTR Releases Ridiculous 'Naughty' Special 301 List For Countries Who Don't Pass Silly Laws Hollywood Wants
techdirt.com 4 weeks, 1 day agoEvery year around this time, the USTR puts out its increasingly laughable Special 301 Report, which merely takes the countries that IP maxmalists say are bad, and officially declares them naughty. The 2012 list has come out (pdf and embedded below) and it's as silly and pointless as usual. Canada has an official policy stating that it does not accept the Special 301 process as legitimate, and (of course) it once again finds itself on the list. There is no fathomable reason for this other than the fact that
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