On Thursday, euro-area finance ministers will meet to ratify an aid payment to Greece, and European Union leaders will begin a two-day summit meeting on the future of the bloc.
Payments made after 1998, when Britain ratified an OECD convention against bribing foreign officials, would be embarrassing for Mr Blair's government.
AFSCME is asking for a 6% annual raise per year plus additional payments over four years; UC is offering 3% plus a onetime payment of $750 after a contract is ratified.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Congress approved the payment of money it owed the United Nations and ratified a new ambassador, John D. Negroponte.
Those payments will come through if the deal is ratified by union members, who will vote on the contract Sept. 5 and 6.
It is likely to be formally approved by US courts early next year, although BP has already started making payments and says it expects the settlement to be ratified.
After Fidel Castro came to power only one payment was cashed, but the U.S. government claimed that the new regime had thereby ratified the agreement.
The amendment we're talking about, ratified in 1868, reads, "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned".
ratified the panel's findings.
After the deals are ratified by legislatures, German and British clients would pay a one-time retroactive sum on their capital, as well as an annual tax on capital gains and dividend payments rather than just on interest income.
