"For us, a very free federation is acceptable, a loose confederation that would have very few federal bodies, just the military, foreign affairs and a common currency".
It is instead facing the prospect of massive legacy income streams simply vanishing through abrupt obsolescence, while continuing to be held at bay in the server space, not by a company, but by a loose confederation of open-source developers turning out free software.
There is a loose confederation of mini-kingdoms".
He would demand a loose confederation, at most.
It is cold and snowing," said Peteris Krigers, president of the Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the world's principal organization of national trade union federations.
It is joined by the Association of Hungarian Free Trade Unions, Democratic Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Forum for the Cooperation of Trade Unions, and Autonomous Trade Union Confederation.
Several trade unions exist in the country; the largest of these, with nearly 700,000 members, is L'Union Marocaine du Travail, which is affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Labor leaders addressing the start in Durban of the 17th World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions said globalization needed to pay attention to social rights for it to be a sustainable economic system.
That led the International Labor Organization to condemn the vote, and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has 123 million members, announced that it would refuse to recognize the results.
