Thoughtful reporting, bolstered by the two-source minimum rule to assure factuality has been replaced with rumor-mongering, emotional appeals and attacks on people's characters -- precisely the opposite of what ethical journalism should be.
It's even more inexcusable that Britain and Ireland have subsequently opposed the setting of minimum rules (pdf) to ensure that the rights of suspects to have legal counsel and interpretation in foreign trials are upheld.
But frankly, in order to maintain [the friendship], he has to observe some minimum rules".
BSkyB would expect, subject to German minimum offer price rules, to make this offer without a premium.
In places like France the talk is of Europe-wide minimum wages and rules to stop people moving factories.
If the court treats the current challenge as a petition to hear the case on appeal, Montana should be granted at least the 30-day minimum in court rules to respond to the petition for review.
"This ruling opens the way to moving the debate on and allowing us to address alcohol misuse with practical measures that actually work," said a statement by David Frost, chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association, which brought the case against the minimum price rule to the European Court.
The European Union would set minimum rules, he said, but member states would zealously guard their right to carry out their own inspections.
All this suggests regulators should concentrate their efforts on achieving global minimum rules.
The EU would also establish minimum rules on matters of judicial procedure, such as the admissibility of evidence, the rights of the accused and so forth.
