| Business people are logical people and it is logical for cross-border trade to increase. |
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| Is it a sign of a new cross-border cooperation when it comes to policing and the passing on of intelligence? |
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| Further, there has been a large increase in cross-border trade and investment in recent years. |
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| This comes through maintaining strict border policies and running cross-border patrols. |
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| One thing the article doesn't mention is the potential for cross-border trade in Asia. |
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| The successful cross-border development of these services is partly dependent on the confidence of users that their privacy will not be at risk. |
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| Authorities are now clamping down on the cross-border movement of tribal people on both sides of the frontier. |
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| The agreement was instrumental to the success of cross-border sales in the proceedings. |
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| The strategy outlines shortterm information needs and the elements of a potential long-term solution to the cross-border disputes. |
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| It is possible to make use of the secure online payment system for cross-border purchases, as well. |
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| This cross-border meddling is exactly what Hassan was seemingly able to prove. |
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| The government there has repeatedly complained about continuing cross-border infiltration. |
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| It is beefing up its capabilities in electronic investigation and cross-border operations. |
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| This cross-border event is a rigorous and testing challenge of endurance and skill. |
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| Paramilitary bosses were ageing and their members grown rich on cross-border smuggling, robbery and money laundering. |
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| For months, there were cross-border concerns in the United States about traveling to Mexico, and about Mexicans traveling here. |
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| In January, Italy and Switzerland began talks on cross-border transparency on the matter. |
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| The FDLR has been cited by the Rwandan government as the reason it must remain engaged in cross-border security. |
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| The organization claims it is now the only cross-border anti-poaching unit in East Africa. |
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| When it became apparent that India was not going to attack, the cross-border incursions quickly rose again. |
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| The savings on cross-border payments will apply only to those who make cross-border payments by credit transfer. |
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| The threat of corruption and subversion by drug traffickers requires strong, cross-border teamwork. |
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| In many European countries, such as Spain, cross-border marriages have become popular. |
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| But the terrorists also landed a body blow in Canadian towns whose prosperity has long hinged on easy cross-border travel. |
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| Analysts expect cross-border mergers and acquisitions to intensify in areas like pharmaceuticals and software. |
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| Those sectors with high export intensity and high import penetration are essentially integrated on a cross-border basis. |
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| As the map shown earlier illustrates, use of child soldiers has a certain geographic clustering, perhaps indicating cross-border spillovers. |
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| But non-membership of the EU will be an obstacle, since it will hinder cross-border consolidation. |
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| Militarily, the Americans have pushed for cross-border cooperation against the Haqqanis. |
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| If you or your company is engaged in providing cross-border services, it is important to understand how these new rules may impact you. |
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| With that, improvements in cross-border payments within the same currency zone seemed inevitable. |
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| The real effective exchange rate is a major determinant of cross-border trade flows. |
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| The number and value of cross-border transactions is a measure of how integrated the EU retail market is, according to the study. |
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| Mr President, I am both looking forward to and dreading the cross-border health directive. |
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| The purpose of the legislation is to set out uniform jurisdictional rules with respect to cross-border business-to-consumer contracts. |
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| Pastoralism: The Horn has a high number of transhumant and cross-border pastoralists, whose communities are often marginalised and alienated. |
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| We will no longer need the professionalisation of good generalists who specialise as a function of the cross-border territory. |
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| The Surinamese have difficulty imagining cross-border cooperation with what they consider to be a colony. |
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| The flow of cross-border information too has slowed to a trickle. |
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| In cross-border territories the mobility of businesses and their employees is hampered by the imperviousness of employment aid measures. |
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| High cross-border transaction costs are mainly due to the underdevelopment of retail payment systems across Europe. |
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| In fact, in a cross-border context but also at the level of sub-regions, the regional GIS will be more easily connectable than national systems. |
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| But it also wants to make its own mark on the territory, by linking up and structuring this cross-border living area. |
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| The current tendency is to strengthen the legal structuring of cooperation projects through the establishment of joint cross-border structures. |
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| Increasingly, the latter are optimizing their cross-border procurements through global agreements with a single supplier. |
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| Even problems perceived as purely local, such as soil pollution, often have its origins in much wider cross-border processes. |
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| This can involve the listing of foreign shares or depository receipts, alliances to exchange information or technology, or cross-border mergers. |
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| America and Europe have instituted such moratoriums since the crisis, but these do not apply to cross-border deals. |
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| Expanding the offering of cross-border public transport thus represents a real challenge for the France-Vaud-Geneva conurbation project. |
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| The stance of the residents is a stark contrast to those who feel the project will give a much-needed shot in the arm to the cross-border economy. |
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| The most characteristic changes included standardisation of market procedures, greater liquidity and growth in cross-border transactions. |
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| In both cases, cross-border relations and remittance flows provide infrastructure for transnational criminal commerce. |
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| The trade union movement has been very leery of unregulated temporary cross-border movement of employees. |
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| Most of the said projects apply to cross-border river basins and two cover marine waters. |
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| Ultimately, it is the rubbing points in cross-border judicial arrangements that grind down families and children. |
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| It should instead aim for limited cooperation on significant and genuinely cross-border issues. |
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| In the absence of genuine cross-border cooperation, this project is nevertheless likely to penalize the Côte d'Azur economy. |
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| We hope the bill will pass quickly because it's increasingly critical that we strengthen our capacity for cross-border cooperation. |
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| Such data protection provisions should take particular account of the specific nature of cross-border on-line access to databases. |
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| Organise the coordination of national policies border by border, taking account of cross-border conurbations and cross-border metropolitan areas. |
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| Furthermore, the US is particularly keen on boosting cross-border data flow, including traffic of personal and financial data. |
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| Numerous types of cross-border organizations exist, with different participant make-ups and objectives. |
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| Nonetheless, direct cross-border procurement is abysmally low and has not increased in recent years. |
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| This undoubtedly inhibits chargeback from operating, particularly in respect of cross-border transactions. |
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| That the technical barriers to cross-border acceptance at the point of sale and cash withdrawals for card payments in euro should be removed. |
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| In the case of land-use change, projects should be scrutinised from a regional perspective to measure cross-border leakages. |
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| What do you consider was the added value of the cross-border cooperation in this project on the development of business parks? |
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| Promote the establishment of business parks such as cross-border economic zones with common facilities and services. |
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| The main problem at present is that it is being applied inconsistently, especially in cross-border cooperation between individual Member States. |
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| Also, it shows the increasing need for competition law at the regional or international level in tackling cross-border anticompetitive effects. |
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| The past 10 years have seen a significant climb in cross-border traffic. |
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| There appears to be some cross-border trade with Libya in old Tunisian fishing boats, which are hastily restored to marginal seaworthiness. |
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| You may remember a certain Maclean's cover story which dramatically underlined the need for cross-border enforcement. |
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| Fostering transnational, cross-border and interregional cooperation should also be considered as a priority. |
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| Seminar participants divided into working groups to thrash out the main priorities for cross-border trade union cooperation. |
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| Expansion of the Basel conurbation beyond the French and German borders has intensified the need for cross-border planning. |
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| This implies that intangible services rendered to a SICAV on a cross-border basis are located where the SICAV is domiciliated. |
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| Today they are integrated in a common urban space where the cross-border square symbolises the reunification of the two towns. |
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| You should, however, make enquiries as to whether such a purchase makes sense from a tax perspective for a cross-border commuter. |
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| We must also remember that customer needs mean that the cross-border asset management business is likely to grow less than onshore banking. |
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| These worries revolve around food safety, free movement, environmental issues and the cross-border approach to them. |
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| It contains a number of projects such as a common biological census or the promotion of cross-border heritage, often little-known. |
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| The latter frustrates cross-border services and consequently impedes international competitiveness. |
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| The Commission is of the view that the existing thresholds allow concentrations that have significant cross-border effects to fall outside the Regulation. |
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| It also promoted cross-border cooperation on preparedness for and response to such accidents. |
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| In 1997 the European Commission adopted a non-restrictive interpretation of this provision in relation to providing banking services cross-border. |
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| Natural and man-made disasters, such as forest fires and energy shortages, also require cross-border preparedness and response. |
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| Benefits that a network incurs as a result of hosting cross-border flows shall be taken into account to reduce the compensation received. |
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| Such legitimate cross-border trade in pseudoephedrine supports the integrated manufacturing nature of the pharmaceutical industry. |
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| Agreement to help citizens cope with situations such as cross-border divorces and separations more easily. |
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| In the EU, Mr Sterckx, the cross-border distinction is irrelevant, and until the EU gravy train finally hits the buffers, it is all unstoppable. |
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| The traditional majority rule, the main rule in democracies, was not chosen for cross-border cooperation. |
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| Do you have any experience of cross-border use of video-conferencing in the judicial system? |
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| This type of crime is also a and worthwhile exchange of experience and practice. hotbed of recruitment for organised and cross-border crime. |
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| We believe this is the only country in the world where cross-border signal theft or piracy is legitimized. |
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| This plan is commendable for addressing both cross-border and internal trafficking, and for its prioritization of specific goals. |
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| Even so, cross-border transactions are tricky. |
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| In addition, international organizations and bilateral liaison offices can encourage more efficient cross-border approaches to transnational crime. |
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| Its specific aim is to inform consumers in the relevant country about their rights and to provide assistance on cross-border issues, including disputes. |
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| The event, organised by Ficoba, aims to boost cross-border tourism between different Basque Coast tourist attractions. |
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| Under this regime the British pound, fixed to a certain value in gold, served as a transworld currency and thereby greatly facilitated cross-border payments. |
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| Nearby, a yellow caterpillar excavator sits idle next to an opening that once led into a cross-border tunnel. |
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| He encouraged cross-border rebels seeking to depose the government of Chad. |
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| The implementation of such policies may therefore require cross-border agreements and cooperative arrangements between neighbouring local government bodies. |
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| It will mean extra officers being assigned to the Regional Crime Unit which focuses on cross-border crime, including burglary gangs and cashpoint tricksters. |
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| Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines sealed a trilateral security pact on Tuesday in an attempt to bolster cooperation to combat terrorism and cross-border crime. |
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| The second idea that we should give expression to is the importance of cross-border political communication. |
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| A significant number of road or rail cross-border links, either at the project stage or under construction, include major tunnel sections, sometimes exceeding 50 km. |
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| Finally, there is the point on which conciliation nearly foundered: cross-border airspace blocks. |
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| All go beyond national limitations, intrude less on national laws and open up new opportunities for market actors in cross-border trade. |
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| This measure will reduce the possibilities for diversionary routes and illicit cross-border activity. |
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| The population movement information database in the Nairobi office of UNHCR continues to analyse cross-border movements induced by drought. |
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| The potential cross-border impact of CBC has been reduced by the lack of integrated development plans which cover the two sides of the border. |
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| It is an unrivalled reference document in which the principal topics of cross-border cooperation are analysed. |
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| Mandatory use of certain commercial services such as those of cross-border forwarding agents. |
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| Buttressing the institutions and rules that support cross-border finance is thus essential. |
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| Globalisation involves a higher degree of interdependence and therefore a greater need for cross-border political cooperation. |
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| According to the study, restaurant and hotel services are on the borderline in respect of their cross-border effects. |
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| Financial services can also oil the wheels of trade in goods and services by reducing the retail cost of cross-border commercial operations. |
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| The question of the high bank charges for cross-border payments remains in suspense. |
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| It may safely be assumed that bulk mail and other types of commercial mail account for the most important part of cross-border mail. |
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| This was completely destroyed during the war and its absence remains a serious hindrance to cross-border trade and sub-regional integration. |
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| A lack of safeguards in cross-border criminal cases and a cavalier approach to data protection add to that unease. |
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| Since this date, the number of cross-border flows deeply increased in both ways, especially concerning the workers. |
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| Regulation can, however, also serve as an incentive for cross-border mergers and acquisitions. |
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| We presented a cross-border subcontracting service and the success was phenomenal. |
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| They cherish the cross-border meetings as the symbolic forebear of a putative all-Ireland administration. |
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| Given the cross-border integration of the steel sector, Canadian exports would have been no doubt sideswiped. |
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| In earlier decades, NATO's defence preparations emphasised the massing of troops to deter or repel a cross-border attack. |
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| Branding and joint territorial marketing of the cross-border space add to the attractiveness of the territory. |
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| It responds to the idea that cross-border cooperation is not just another tool to develop a border area. |
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| We need to call a halt to the scandalous cross-border costs within the euro area, which do not involve any risk for the banks. |
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| Of the various topics addressed, particular mention should be made of the exposure of banks to cross-border contagion risks. |
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| The findings for accountancy and audit may perhaps be because competition on national markets is weak with little cross-border trade. |
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| However, very low employment rates of some segments of the population coexist with huge inflows of cross-border workers. |
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| A constitutive assembly should be organised in early 2009 to give form to this European network of cross-border local authorities. |
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| We are also working on a project for a cross-border slaughterhouse in Cerdagne. |
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| The cross-border online shopping trend is growing around the world and Europe is no exception. |
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| First, cross-border banks do not perceive that the fragmentation of liquidity risk regulation in the EU imposes undue restrictions on the management of intragroup liquidity across borders. |
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| It bridges research and action in an effort to fuel the debate around concrete leads in support of cross-border cooperation and to reassimilate the people of West Africa into the ongoing integration process. |
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| Nevertheless, it needs to be finetuned, especially in cross-border contexts and in the light of the different legal and constitutional traditions which exist in various countries, including the candidate countries. |
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| The modernisation of the existing ferry-boat connections, as well as the reconstruction of Lom harbour should make a significant contribution to increasing cross-border cooperation with Romania. |
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| The principles and procedures contained in the MoU deal with the sharing of information, views and assessments among authorities and with cooperation at the national and cross-border level. |
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| Several working fields have thus been identified, such as the exchange of information, the professionalization of the cross-border stakeholders, the realization of studies, and working in common on projects of publications. |
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| The growing number of separated couples and single-parent families, together with increasing mobility in the EU, has resulted in a rise in the number of cross-border disputes concerning maintenance claims. |
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| The rebuilding of the Maria Valeria Bridge in 2001, destroyed during the World War II, is the starting point of the recent integration of the two towns in a cross-border area. |
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| The cross-border claims have to be liquidated one way or another, whether by subsuming them into a pan-European identity, restructuring, or rebalancing. |
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| One of the main lessons to be drawn from this project is that for a cross-border project to work the demand should pre-exist or at least it should be actively encouraged from the start. |
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| Widescale violence can create large numbers of cross-border refugees. |
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| The results of an initial interim study have also just been communicated: it analysed the cross-border fare provision and proposed ideas for optimising the project. |
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| However, the socio-cultural and organizational dimensions help determine the environment and provide the facilitative means for cross-border cooperation and even, sometimes, cross-border regional awareness and identity. |
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| With the dramatic drop in traditional sources of local financing, GE Capital has had to make use of cross-border intercompany loans in order to meet the needs of its Canadian clients. |
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| If the proposal fosters consumer protection and increases competition in the retail market through more cross-border offers, then consumers will win through having more choice, better quality and lower prices. |
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| As a result, Central Africa is awash with illicit weapons, exacerbating intercommunal violence, increasing cross-border crime and threatening ongoing peace and national reconciliation processes. |
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| As lots of governmental and non-governmental actors call for a moralization of cross-border financial practices, it seems to be clear that the issue of offshore financial centers should be finally addressed. |
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| On 24 November 2005 the employment departments of Monaco, Imperia province and the Menton area signed a cross-border collaboration protocol intended to facilitate the employment of cross-border job-seekers. |
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| The euro is likely to stimulate cross-border short breaks by residents of the euro zone and will make the movement of visitors from third countries easier. |
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| Notably during cross-border long-distance transport animals are often subject to brutalities and improper care and handling, or are unfit to be transported in the first place. |
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| However, the Commission as well as other European Institutions have increasingly recognised that cross-border sections are often the key missing links in the networks. |
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| He argues that the SDLP can contribute hugely to the democratic health of the entire island by stabilising the Stormont administration and the cross-border institutions set up under the Good Friday accord. |
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| It harbingers huge opportunities for wealth creation and intercultural exchange, but also cross-border challenges like migration, climate change and internationally organised crime. |
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| The plan should include the evacuation and the possibility of an accident which contaminates another Member State, a possible cross-border contamination. |
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| That is why the Regulation provides that this principle of equal charges applies to a comparable transfer, i.e. a cross-border transfer that can be automated using the IBAN and BIC codes. |
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| The conference also intends to promote new cross-border and interregional cooperation actions in key areas such as sustainable development, economic development and social and cultural cohesion. |
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| In parallel to that project, thematic bicycle routes have been created and common touristic maps on the cross-border territory have been published. |
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| In addition, the 1951 Franco-Swiss agreement prohibiting cabotage was amended by the two states in January 2007 to allow unrestricted carriage of passengers throughout the cross-border territory. |
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| The North American platform means we can have cross-border supply chains and value chains that make North American and Canadian industries much more competitive and able to take on the super-competitive dynamos like China. |
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| The proposal, largely technical at this stage, shies away from deciding on sensitive political issues such as who should foot the bill in the event of cross-border bank failures. |
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| In the last-named area, I particularly welcome the initiative of players in the health sector to offer 'exportable' services which take account of the specific circumstances of cross-border commuters. |
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| We know that agencies, even within one state, will not share information because of jealousies, power struggles and turf wars, let alone through cross-border cooperation. |
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| The remit of the European Coordinator shall normally relate to a single project, especially in the case of a cross-border project, but may, if necessary, be extended to cover the whole of a major axis. |
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| Despite the undeniable efforts by the Pakistanis against the hideouts of Al-Qaida cells, the international community must not tolerate any link between the operation of the nuclear umbrella and political cross-border claims. |
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| I have had a long-held opposition to the establishment of this office, which has been raised, not only in this context, but also on the question of cross-border criminal proceedings. |
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| At the same time, we are working with the authorities in the Ain department so that the inhabitants of the Pays de Gex will soon be able to benefit from a cross-border tram linking Saint Genis to Geneva. |
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| While training programmes for cross-border careers have their place, it is important to avoid excessive specialisation, particularly because of the lack of job opportunities. |
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| Given the maritime character of the border, transport systems play a primary role in facilitating the development of interchanges in all areas of cross-border cooperation. |
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| French does not cause friction for Quebec in the cross-border trade of agricultural goods and products, a year-long study on the subject suggests. |
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| Mr Karamanlis and Mr Erdogan met in July, on the border in Thrace, where they initiated the construction of a pipeline to carry gas from Turkey via Greece to Italy their first cross-border infrastructure project. |
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| Specifically, this will concern cross-border rail projects crossing natural barriers, such as mountain ranges or stretches of water, requiring de facto major civil engineering works such as long tunnels or bridges. |
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| They also often witness the detraining of passengers at the cross-border station because of some problems with their visas or other documents. |
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| To date the counter-attack has mainly focussed on domestic payments, but the scale of cross-border fraud means we need urgent action at a European and, indeed, international level. |
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| Enforceability is an issue in any cross-border transaction. |
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| Through this project, the Bureau is supporting the work of a number of African countries in promoting literacy and the modernization of cross-border languages, such as Creole and Lingala. |
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| If such exports are managed appropriately, conflicts can be avoided, permitting smooth cross-border labour flows and ensuring the reabsorption of these workers in their home countries. |
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| Substantial progress remains to be made, not only in the introduction of new bus or tram routes but also in thinking about the establishment of cross-border intermodal networks. |
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| In other urban areas where the centre has adopted a wait-and-see attitude, the peripheral areas are unable to act autonomously as part of a real cross-border dynamic. |
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| As was the case in other industrialised countries, the decline primarily concerned equity capital transactions, reflecting the slowdown in cross-border merger and acquisition activity. |
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| This decision marks the determination to lay the foundations of a strong political cross-border cooperation project, with the ambition of responding to the challenges of the new 2007-2013 European programming period. |
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| As some people have said, public broadcasting is often the leading actor in innovation in services, but it is clear that this is an impact which is cross-border and across media sectors. |
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| It is important to note that in many incidents of carjacking of humanitarian vehicles, the attackers drove into the Sudan, emphasizing the cross-border nature of this problem. |
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| The elimination of obstacles to cross-border electronic banking would improve the situation for consumers and business customers, who would benefit from sound economic competition. |
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| One of the factors has been the expansion of electronic networks, which has promoted the introduction of electronic banking services, facilitating cross-border trade. |
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| There is political interference, things are going slowly, they are just not working and, at the moment, organised cross-border crime is being fought by policemen with personal connections. |
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| Does the recent presidential election in Turkmenistan hold out hope for strengthening its ties with this country, starting with closer cross-border cooperation? |
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| Similarly, the cross-border regions and their institutions become a channel of communication between sub-national and national governments that cannot be ignored. |
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| It's up to Credit Suisse to sensitize its customers accordingly and to implement applicatory measures to permanently increase the STP rate in the cross-border area and to bring it to an adequate level. |
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| Under Option 1 the unlevel playing field for competition between payment service providers continues to exist and the efficiency of the internal market in payments is hampered by the reporting on cross-border payments. |
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| It also highlighted the necessity for joint action by all the protagonists of a cross-border territory to build a common territory project meeting the expectations of the population. |
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| A light treaty would not be intended to supplant a full treaty between, for example, neighbouring countries with heavy cross-border trade, or other important trading partners. |
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| A reasonable fraction of capacity may be offered to the market at a reduced degree of firmness, but the exact conditions for transport over cross-border lines shall, at all times, be made known to market participants. |
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| This Regulation will help consumers and small businesses to take full advantage of the Internal Market and the euro without having to pay through the nose for cross-border transactions. |
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| Since the market is putting up some resistance, it is proposed that we use force to make it submit, by decreeing compulsory equality of bank charges on internal transactions, as on cross-border transactions. |
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| Have your say on cross-border cooperation in Europe! |
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| A typical case is the establishment of cross-border business parks, providing suitable services for businesses involved in cross-border development. |
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| With reference to the combating of cross-border crime, let me add that Romania's efforts are gaining strength from what is now happening in Ukraine, from which we are for the first time getting a positive response. |
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| Let a cross-border, public debate take place on this subject, because I would be interested to see whether Commissioner Wallström would agree with me that only then would Europe come nearer to the citizen. |
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| It is necessary to optimise, deepen and extend the scope of analysis of cross-border socio-economic potentials to be able to develop well-founded strategies. |
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| The Committee on Civil Liberties wants to increase the funding by two-thirds if we are going to be serious about cross-border efforts to tackle crime. |
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| Encouraging cross-border agreements on training and staff exchanges, which may help to manage the outward flow of health workers while respecting Community law. |
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| If you want to regain the confidence of the public, you will need to ensure that you pull out all the stops in order to actually tackle cross-border air pollution and fight it effectively. |
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| We must pull out all the stops so as to improve the way in which cross-border police work is organised and make criminal prosecution more efficient than it has been hitherto. |
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| The second statement opens the door for the EU to override national governments and lay down the law on how cross-border healthcare is reimbursed, leading inevitably to how healthcare as a whole is funded and managed. |
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| But as the Privacy Commissioner herself has indicated, I believe on a number of occasions, some cross-border data flow is not in and of itself a privacy concern. |
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| The choice of issues to be addressed by an insolvency agreement may be influenced by the similarities or dissimilarities between the laws and procedures of the States involved in the particular cross-border case. |
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| Fewer CZ-patients were acquainted with the possibility of cross-border care and most of them were told about it by nonprofessional caregivers, i.e. family or friends. |
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| Consequently, printed matter circulating solely within the territory of one Member State has no cross-border effects and cannot create any obstacle to the internal market or serious distortion of competition. |
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| The second alternative would be to scale back cross-border banking groups in order to manage crises more efficiently under current national regimes. |
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| The objectives of the conference were to compare the different existing models, to find out what is improvable on a national level in order to then consider the modalities of an effective cross-border mediation. |
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| A Greek cross-border worker employed in Luxembourg, and living in Belgium, tried to register in a Belgian municipality to obtain a 5-year residence card. |
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| The market investigation has shown that buying tissue products through cross-border purchasing groups such as AMS, NAF and EMD is not very developed. |
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| The cross-border compadres were determined not to let that spoil the mood. |
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| On 6 May 1999 a statement of objections was sent to Visa with regard to the no-discrimination rule and the then still existing restrictions on cross-border issuing and acquiring. |
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| Our economic analyses show that the level of complexity of the cross-border transfer procedure would be comparable to that of the cross-border merger procedure. |
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| For example, close or distant relations do not impact on whether Canada secures an exemption from the new US visitor card program, which could have a nasty sideswipe effect on cross-border movements. |
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| In order to breathe life into the new reality, customers need to be aware of the new opportunities in the Internal Market and have confidence in cross-border service provision. |
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| Armed violence is found most frequently in the pastoralist and cross-border areas in the North Rift, north-eastern and parts of the eastern and coastal provinces. |
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| The specific objectives of the Regulation are the entry into force, by end 2002 of a harmonised system for cross-border transmission tarification based on principles of simplicity, cost-reflectiveness and non-discrimination. |
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| It is a strong signal to the partners in the field and should give additional impetus to the French-Belgian cross-border health cooperation which is already well under way. |
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| Even for those that are for higher sums, such as car purchases and art items purchased by auction, legal recourse to realize on cross-border complaints would be agonizingly difficult, costly and risky. |
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| It is in this spirit that I invite you to move forward together, with MOT, on the path of cross-border cooperation, a prospect which gladdens me personally. |
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| However, in the latter case, the option presupposed that both neighbours had functioning competition authorities in order to effectively address cross-border anti-competitive practices. |
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| It is disgraceful the way that interior ministers have left a space for Europhobes like the UK Independence Party and British Conservatives to castigate the whole EU effort on cross-border crime. |
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| Summary: C2C responds to the exigency of tackling the issue of fragmentations in the cross-border logistic supply chains by better connecting ports with their hinterland and ports with other ports. |
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| Following teething troubles of a mainly technical and linguistic nature, the network now helps considerably in simplifying cross-border investigations into criminal offences. |
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| At the decentralized level, on the Portuguese side they are: a Coordination Committee and Regional Development of the Region Norte and a cross-border referent and on the Galicia side: a cross-border referent. |
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| This European rulebook would provide the financial institutions with the reference that they perhaps lack today when they undertake cross-border activities. |
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| Meanwhile, governments are also increasingly turning to cross-border information sharing as part of international efforts to stymie terrorists and other criminals. |
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| This project, guided by the MOT as lead partner, has networked six cross-border conurbations in Europe since November 2008 on the topic of governance. |
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| Siemens would pay dearly to keep the American engineering mastodon off its European patch. But one emerging theme is that a cross-border deal can be an opportunity to shift to a low-tax country. |
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| On July 6, 1999, Canada and the United States signed a statement of mutual understanding on information sharing as part of a coordinated approach to prevent the cross-border movement of members of criminal organizations. |
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| The law places a substantial reporting burden on foreign financial institutions, dissuading them from marketing and providing cross-border services to customers resident in Sweden. |
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| Lack of cross-border inter-municipality, and more generally inter-territoriality, which would attenuate the effects of the border and allow better management of a number of services. |
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| Among the aspects which were highly valued, we find the cross-border aspect of the event and the opportunity to make contact with French or Gipuzkoa professionals as appropriate. |
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| What are at stake are cross-border and domestic policy matters of common interest, such as illegal immigration, the sex trade and trafficking in human beings, including women. |
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| So now we are facing the consequences of the hard sell of the euro, and that brings me to a conclusion on this issue of cross-border payments, but also, Madam President, on the euro generally. |
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| Ficoba has helped to boost cross-border relations and, likewise, is associated with advancing those relations and creating a meeting point, for people as well as businesses and economic activities. |
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| However, since trade between Canada and the US is most intense among the provinces and states in the borderland regions, Downs and Sawchuk also looked at CanadaUS border effects in the context of these cross-border regions. |
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| Lastly, the Eurosystem attaches great importance to the signature of memoranda of Understanding, which are the favoured instrument for the indispensable cross-border co-operation between national banking supervisors. |
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| Consumers need to be confident that governments have the ability to deal effectively with cross-border fraud or other fly-by-night operations, if they are not to be reluctant to buy from suppliers in another Member State. |
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| The aim of these seminars is to define, organize and formalize method components necessary for the emergence and success of cross-border projects. |
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| Our citizens are increasingly finding themselves involved in complex cross-border problems: road traffic accidents, buying property or a timeshare, actual problems that face our citizens. |
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| Located in a run-down former industrial area in the harbour, this building marks the first stage of a plan to design a cross-border axis between Strasbourg and Kehl, Germany. |
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| Coordinating the supply of cross-border health care in the fields of dialysis, medical imagery, geriatrics and perinatal care and emergency health care. |
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| This particularly applies to intelligence. European leaders should have given the EU better real powers to hit out at terrorism and cross-border crime long before we were forced to adopt panic measures. |
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| I urge President Musharraf, nevertheless, at the same time to ensure an end to cross-border terrorist infiltration and I welcome the news today of the arrest of those accused of attempting to assassinate him. |
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| Notwithstanding such a proviso, it should be possible for the courts to explicitly reach agreement on a range of matters, including approval of a cross-border insolvency agreement. |
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| Time after time, politicians stress that Europe must look after the core themes and cross-border issues, but this statement by the European Parliament is at odds with that. |
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| Moneymaking seems to be at the forefront of cross-border enforcement in the field of road safety, as it was with the lucrative environmental penalty notices. |
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| Some of these results reveal first of all that some of the inherent characteristics of traditional loan and deposit business constrain the cross-border expansion of commercial banking, even in a common currency area. |
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| The Commission has already addressed to banks the concerns of citizens about the level of charges levied for banknote exchange, in addition to other cross-border transactions. |
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| Finally, reduced rates are also allowed provisionally for a number of labour-intensive services which are not subject to cross-border competition. |
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| After the European regulators decreed uniform pricing of national and cross-border euro transfers as far back as 2003, it is now definitely time to get a handle on costs. |
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| But cross-border forays are not an unalloyed good. |
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| If the legal or regulatory obstacles to cross-border activity are eliminated, the adoption of joint standards and conventions through collective action only becomes more desirable and more beneficial. |
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| Whether you're a Canadian Snowbird, a cross-border shopper or a student backpacking through Europe, travel insurance is an extremely cost-effective way to help safeguard your health and finances. |
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| Are you a Snowbird, frequent traveller or cross-border shopper? |
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| The purpose of the Directive is to put cross-border interest and royalty payments on an equal footing with domestic payments, by eliminating juridical double taxation and cash-flow disadvantages. |
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| The fourth project is a cross-border venture aimed at the restoration and conservation of the heathland and continental dunes landscape in the 'De Zoom Kalmthoutse Heide' park, which extends across the Dutch-Belgian border. |
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| In this case, it is international companies that arrange cross-border transport from beginning to end, and this is the most attractive option for those people with a transport requirement. |
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| For starters, there should be better cooperation between the existing national railway companies in the management of frequent and fast cross-border routes. |
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| Tomsk State, which has a distance learning center in Kazakhstan, is also working with the Kazakh government to create a cross-border distance learning university. |
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| With a binding, cross-border ban on the castration of pigs, pig breeders and the market could, in my view, adapt perfectly well to the resultant changes. |
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| The challenge is to build on this progress, particularly through more thorough analysis of cross-border spillover effects of national economic policies. |
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| If we have proper cross-border access to justice then the timeshare scam bandits will think twice before they prey on our holidaying constituents. |
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| The operation of an integrated financial market requires that orders to buy and sell financial instruments interact effectively, freely and instantaneously with each other on a cross-border basis. |
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| However, commentators of civil law countries are generally of the view that insolvency agreements will become more common in the future due to their successful use in cross-border insolvency proceedings. |
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| Removing the red tape currently strangling efforts to establish or provide services on a cross-border basis will make a real contribution to entrepreneurship, growth and job creation. |
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| The Ahern government pumped billions of euros into cross-border projects while some of its backroom strategists talked about taking over the SDLP and advancing forwards as the main all-Ireland, 32-county party on this island. |
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| But from now on, the railways need to take down the barriers that are obstructing the cross-border transport of goods, by using each other's infrastructure. |
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| Several other European countries, such as Italy and Spain, are going through their own banking consolidation, and are shunning cross-border mergers, preferring to find economies at home. |
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| In fact, the number of banknotes circulating in any one country can no longer be determined because of unrecorded cross-border cash flows in the euro area due, for example, to tourism. |
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| For research purposes, a cross-border region is defined as a group of provinces and states that straddle the border and exhibit a certain level of economic and organizational linkage as well as socio-cultural similarities. |
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| Paid traffickers, most of whom are involved in large-scale, cross-border organised crime, make cruel profits out of the misfortune and hopes of the people concerned and do not provide magnanimous humanitarian services. |
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| To make sure that national authorities receive the necessary information in time, traders will be obliged to file a monthly declaration of their cross-border transactions. |
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| Promoting efficient and competitive clearing and settlement of cross-border trades: impediments to the finalisation of cross-border securities transactions are coming into sharper focus. |
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| On credit databases, we want to see a consistent format and non-discriminatory cross-border access to both positive and negative credit data, always subject to privacy protection. |
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| This has to be taken in account particularly in all cross-border related policy measures, particularly with regard to portability and vesting periods. |
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| Today, these undeserved gains are used to finance and justify cross-border takeovers to the detriment of socially responsible companies and society at large. |
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| Further develop cooperation between the State Border Service, the customs service, the police and the Prosecutor's Office to interdict and prosecute trafficking and other cross-border crime. |
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| For instance, MIGA offers cover against breach of contract in concession agreements, transfer restrictions, political instability and violence, though this applies only to cross-border investors. |
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| Locomotives are routinely changed because of technical incompatibility of signalling and electrical systems or lack of personnel qualification for cross-border operation. |
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| Other measures include increasing the capacity of the rail network, the construction of new railway stations and the introduction of new cross-border coach routes. |
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| It sets out the principles on which cross-border cooperation between the countries of the Alps must be based, while aiming to harmonize the policies of the signatories in order to achieve this. |
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| Cooperative organisations will acquire a strong legal tool which will facilitate the foundation and operation of cooperative societies at cross-border level. |
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| All barriers and obstacles that could hamper the implementation of SEPA should be removed in order to allow effective cross-border competition in the field of retail payment services. |
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| Intermission meetings on cross-border issues will be held on a regular basis to facilitate coordination and exchange of information at the senior level. |
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| The market investigation has shown that, while the occasional company may do so, the general purchasing pattern for outbound cross-border mail services remains national even for large multinational companies. |
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| The agreement was finalized approximately one month after proceedings began and used to hold the first cross-border joint hearing to coordinate the proceedings. |
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| America's Volcker rule would exempt that country's debt, but not that of other sovereigns, from restrictions on banks' proprietary trading. In retrospect, much of the rise in cross-border lending was foolish. |
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| I believe we have seen an upsurge in cross-border solidarity. |
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