The two institutions that vote on Europe-wide laws are facing a confrontation over how much access law enforcement authorities should have to the digital trails left by phone and Internet users.
"The surge in member states' appetite for progress and action in the fight against evasion is extremely welcome," Algirdas Semeta, the Union's commissioner for taxation, said Saturday after two days of meetings in which ministers discussed adoption of Europe-wide laws modeled on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, a U.S. initiative to find hidden accounts overseas.
Now that killing them has been outlawed, there are reckoned to be 7,066 breeding pairs.Crying wolfAs the environmental movement took off in the 1960s, wider laws followed, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s.
This is not legislation yet, but the threat of EU-wide laws being drafted to regulate content takedowns remains a discussion topic — to encourage platforms to improve performance voluntarily.
As well as having a role in setting the budget and the EU's spending priorities - including the billions of pounds in economic aid that come to Wales - MEPs decide EU-wide laws on issues like the environment, employment law and trade.
A wider law or ruling is being called for.
American officers praise the technology as a helpful counter-insurgency tool: if opponents can be identified, they can be separated from the wider, law-abiding populace.
The reason cited by Brussels officials for this capitulation is that they do not believe a wider law would win sufficient support from EU governments.
The commission's campaign to eliminate golden shares is proceeding in parallel with the latest effort by the commission to draft a Europe-wide law on takeovers.
But Vettori wants a relaxation in the wides law when a batsman takes such an option, allowing bowlers to respond by bowling either side of the wicket.
A new internet surveillance bill to help police and security agencies investigate terrorism and serious crime will be the main part of a wider law and order package.
