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| | BBC News UK Politics Sir Leon: Britain's old hand in Brussels |
 | | He later studied at Yale in the United States and upon his return to the UK, he was called to the bar where he became a libel lawyer. | | | Prior to the mass resignation, Sir Leon had resolved to leave Brussels when the Santer commission was due to end its term in December. | | | Following the 1983 general election, Sir Leon was promoted to home secretary. |
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 24 1986: Leon Brittan quits over Westland |
| | Trade and Industry Secretary Leon Brittan has become the second cabinet minister to resign over the Westland affair. | | | She hoped it would not be long before he returned to high office to continue his ministerial career. | | | In a statement, Mrs Thatcher said she had tried to persuade Mr Brittan to stay in the Cabinet. |
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| | House of Commons Hansard Debates for 1 Feb 1989 |
| | Sir Leon Brittan, QC, who, since his election for the said county constituency, hath accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty's Manor of Northstead in the County of York.-- [Mr. | | | There is something more that the Prime Minister and Sir Leon Brittan ought to tell the electorate. | | | What we have before us today, with the Government asking for thewrit to be issued, is the shoddy compromise of being made a Vice- President of the European Commission. |
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| | Europe Shows Muscle in This Trade Tussle--free trade, unilateral and economic trade sanctions |
| | Talking tough, Brittan has succeeded in shielding Europe from the Helms-Burton and D'Amato Acts, which impose sanctions on non-U.S. companies that invest in Cuba, Iran, or Libya. | | | Now the two sides have until October to negotiate a peace treaty, or the EU will take its case back to the WTO. | | | While the U.S. and EU are at odds on sanctions, together they can achieve significant successes on trade. |
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| | BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews |
| | BRITTAN: Well, it's not a question of stuck with him, he has been elected leader of the Party. | | | ANDREW RAWNSLEY: And I'm joined now by the former Conservative Cabinet Minister and Vice-President of the European Commission, Leon Brittan. | | | Isn't it time your old friend retired gracefully from the scene because every time Ken Clarke talks about his continuing ambitions to lead the Tory Party, he simply undermines Mr Duncan Smith? |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Row over Tory role in Danish euro vote |
| | In his letter yesterday, Lord Brittan called on Mr Hague to make clear in public that he was opposed to public intervention by members of the shadow cabinet. | | | Alarmed by reports that a shadow cabinet minister had appeared on a "no" platform in Denmark, Lord Brittan warned Mr Hague that it was "unwise and counterproductive" for Conservatives to interfere in the internal affairs of another country. | | | The Conservative Euro-MP Daniel Hannan is also masterminding an appeal to help the no campaign which has raised at least £100,000. |
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| | Tory Old Guard confirms our perspectives for the Conservative Party |
| | "Leon Brittan made it clear that a new election for leader would be damaging for the Tories, making them look as hopeless, hapless and divided as when they elected IDS last year. | | | Twisting the knife in further, Heseltine argues that the Tories have no chance of winning the next election, and perhaps little chance thereafter unless they change leaders: "We've got a better shadow cabinet on the back benches than we have on the front bench." (The Independent 09/12/02) | | | That is why the Tories have ended up with Duncan Smith at the helm. |
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| | Leon Brittan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sir Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne,QC, PC (born September 25, 1939), is a barrister, a British politician, and a former Conservative Member of Parliament and former member of the European Commission. | | | During 14 years as an MP, he served the constituencies of Cleveland and Whitby (1974-1983) and Richmond (1983-1988). | | | He was created Baron Brittan of Spennithorne in 1999 and is an advisory director to Unilever as well as a consultant to the City law firm Herbert Smith. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Brittan
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| | Westland affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The crisis refused to die down and two weeks later Leon Brittan was forced to resign when it emerged that he leaked a government law officer's memo which was critical of Heseltine. | | | In January 1986 during a Cabinet meeting Heseltine walked out of Downing Street and announced his resignation to the assembled media. | | | This event would be seen later as the beginning of the end of Thatcher's premiership, Heseltine challenged the Prime Minister for leadership of the Conservative Party in 1990 — which led to her downfall. |
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| | UofT G8 Research Group's Compliance Study: From Denver 1997 to Birmingham 1998; Russia |
| | Similarly, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has had direct access to EC's chief trade negotiator, Leon Brittan, who has been unwilling to support early Russia's accession in exchange for any concessions from the EU. | | | Since the Denver Summit, the U.K. Government has had extensive opportunities to use its position within the EC and its Council of Ministers to add force to Russia's accession to the WTO. | | | Since the Denver Summit German Government has little opportunity to use its position within the EU or the EC Council of Ministers to add force to Russia's accession, which continues to progress slowly. |
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http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/evaluations/1998birmingham/compliance/russia.htm
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| | Millville, N.J. An official of the Russell Sage Foundation (1925-34), Henderson held several posts as economic adviser in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before his appointment to... | | | He achieved early success as a historian with the publication, the year after his graduation, of his Harvard honors thesis, Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress (1939). | | | Brittan, Sir Leon Brittan, Sir LeonbrĬt´en, 1939-, British politician. |
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| | GENERAL REPORT 1997 |
| | On 2 December Mr Rocha Vieira, Governor of Macao, visited the Commission where he met Mr Santer and Sir Leon Brittan. | | | Mr Tran Xuan Gia, Planning and Investment Minister, and Mr Nguyen Dy Nien, Deputy Foreign Minister, came to the Commission to see Mr Marín on 21 March | | | Hong Kong's chief executive, Mr Tung Chee Hwa, came to the Commission on 20 October |
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| | Corporate Europe Observer - Issue 1, Favourable Winds for Transatlantic Trade? |
| | Present at this summit will be Sir Leon Brittan and Jacques Santer on behalf of the European Commission, together with Clinton and UK Prime Minister Blair, whose country currently holds the EU's presidency. | | | French Minister of Foreign Affairs Vedrine afterwards stated that the European Commission had not been given a mandate to start negotiations at the EU-US summit on 18 March in London. | | | Within Europe, UK Prime Minister Blair and German Foreign Minister Kinkel welcomed the NTM as a source of economic growth and employment, whereas French government reactions to the NTM have been explicitly hostile. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Brittan's scorn masks ambition |
| | There was little disguising the exasperation of Britain's senior European commissioner, Sir Leon Brittan, with Jacques Santer, the Commission President, for his lame defence of his honour in Brussels yesterday. | | | He knows this could be his last chance, as the commission vice-president, to stride the stage as the temporary president while Europe's heads of government line up a permanent replacement for the hapless Santer. | | | In December, Sir Leon is due to return to private life, spending his time in the City. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/eurofraud/Story/0,2763,209513,00.html
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| | From 1989 to 1992 he was Chef de Cabinet to Vice-President Sir Leon Brittan and between 1993 and 1996 he was Deputy Head and Acting Ambassador at the EU Delegation to the United States based in Washington DC. | | | During his distinguished career he has held a number of key roles as Counsellor at UK Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, Director of the European Regional Development Fund, Chef de Cabinet to Vice-President Sir Leon Brittan and Deputy Head and Acting Ambassador at the EU Delegation to the US based in Washington DC. | | | A graduate from Glasgow University and the Royal Scots College, Valladolid, Spain, Jim Currie began his career at the Scottish Office. |
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| | Brittan leaves Brussels, 11 years after 'reluctant' arrival |
| | As his staff packed up his belongings and stuffed filing cabinet contents into removal boxes, Sir Leon relaxed in a red velvet armchair to reflect on his 11 years at the European Commission. | | | Today, having become the longest serving British commissioner ever, he is convinced he made the right decision. | | | It was a chapter in his life, he admitted, that almost never happened. |
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| | Hurd and Brittan attack Hague's hard line on EMU |
| | TWO more former Tory Cabinet ministers - Lord Hurd, the former Foreign Secretary, and Sir Leon Brittan, Britain's senior Brussels commissioner - yesterday came out against William Hague's hard line stance on a single European currency. | | | But Sir Leon will praise Mr Hague's decision to offer his MPs a free vote on the issue. | | | Sir Leon released the text of a speech today in which he will back the call by Kenneth Clarke, the former Chancellor, for pro-EMU politicians from all parties to join forces with the City, business and the trade unions to campaign for a "yes" vote in a referendum on a single currency. |
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| | BBC News BUSINESS Former EU chief urges UK euro drive |
| | He has advised Prime Minister Tony Blair to start a "gradual escalation of the rhetoric on the euro", he said, making it clear to Britons what the benefits of joining the euro were. | | | The current Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith "made his reputation" opposing the government of John Major, Sir Leon said. | | | Former European Commission vice president Sir Leon Brittan has warned that a refusal to join the euro could damage the UK's long term economic position. |
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| | Lords Hansard text for 19 Feb 1996 (160219-01) |
| | My Lords, if Sir Leon Brittan criticised my right honourable friend the Foreign Secretary, the criticism is not to be found in the article of 7th February this year, which succinctly lays out a case close to the British Government's approach to these matters and is very much supportive of it. | | | Does the Minister believe that that is appropriate or does he wish to minimise his sense of solidarity with his colleague in the Foreign Office? | | | My Lords, is the noble Lord aware that in that article Sir Leon Brittan is presuming to criticise a Minister of the Government and to tell him what line he ought or ought not to take in a matter which is subject to British political controversy? |
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http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199596/ldhansrd/vo960219/text/60219-01.htm
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| | Transcript: Secretary Of State Christopher Foreign Policy Remarks |
| | He was going into a luncheon meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Susanna Agnelli and Vice President of the European Commission, Sir Leon Brittan. | | | I am very pleased to welcome here today Foreign Minister Agnelli and Vice President of the European Commission, Sir Leon Brittan. | | | SIR BRITTAN: I would like to endorse what Secretary of State and Mrs. |
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| | Institute of European Public Law: Hull Law School |
| | The Institute, the first in the UK dedicated to the study of European Public Law, was inaugurated on 1st May 1992 by Sir Leon Brittan, Q.C., then Vice President of the European Commission and Director of the Competition Directorate, DG IV, of the European Commission. | | | The Institute is served by a Director, Deputy Director and part-time secretary. |
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| | China ripe for picking, not plucking |
| | Before becoming a commissioner, plain old Leon Brittan, as he was then, held a number of ministerial posts in Margaret Thatcher's revolutionary 1980s governments, including home secretary and trade and industry secretary. | | | The yuan is likely to be revalued in the medium term, he thought, as long as foreigners were wise enough to moderate their pressure on the Chinese Government. | | | He described a fast-moving environment where the civil law framework for business was still developing, but he also voiced optimism that China would continue to prosper. |
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| | BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews |
| | Now what the other states don't want, and very understandably, is to renegotiate the Treaty and to have to ratify it because most countries will have ratified it by the end of the year, all ten probably, apart bar Britain and Denmark. | | | BRITTAN: Well it's not a question of returning powers to Britain it's a case of the Community deciding what should..needs to be done at Community level and what can be left to the member states. | | | BRITTAN: Well that you must ask British ministers about but I think if that was possible it would be a big contribution to the success of the summit. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext92-93/Brittan6.12.92.html
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| | Press Release |
| | Sir Leon then departed for Kunming for meetings with the Governor of Yunnan Province and discussions with farmers involved in EU village development projects in the south of Yunnan, before leaving on February 19 for Hong Kong for talks with CH Tung, the chief executive and members of his administration. | | | China"s leaders emphasised their determination not to slow up economic reforms as a result of the crisis, which the EU welcomed. | | | Wu Yi, Minister for Trade and Economic Cooperation, that China will produce a fresh, detailed tariff-cutting offer by early March, in line with a set of agreed principles dating back to last October. |
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| | Meat Industry INSIGHTS News Article |
| | He added that he had no plans to meet his U.S. counterpart Charlene Barshefsky, also attending the Budapest meeting, to discuss the beef row on the sidelines of the one-day conference. | | | Brittan said he hoped the United States would give up its demand for lifting the ban. | | | Budapest - European Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan said the EU would be willing to offer “small compensation” to the United States in the community's row with America over beef imports. |
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| | Yale Bulletin and Calendar - Current Issue |
| | Professors from the fields of law, business, economics, political science and history will attend these seminars. | | | Sir Leon Brittan, who has just relinquished his post as vice president of the European Commission, has been appointed a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Yale and will be based at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM). | | | He was called to the Bar in 1962 and became a queen's counsel in 1978. |
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| | Barshefsky and Glickman held separate meetings with Brittan in Washington April 19, according to a statement released by the USTR's office. | | | Ambassador Barshefsky and Secretary Glickman informed Sir Leon that the United States remains committed to resolving this long-standing dispute. | | | U.S. Washington -- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Charlene Barshefsky and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman have told European Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan that the United States is committed to resolving the dispute stemming from the European Union's (EU) refusal to import U.S. beef treated with growth hormones. |
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| | Yale Bulletin and Calendar - News |
| | His career has since taken him into the British Parliament, where he also served as a cabinet member during the Margaret Thatcher years. | | | Sir Leon Brittan, the former vice president of the European Commission who is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the School of Management, will give a public talk and lead his first SOM faculty colloquium session this week. | | | Later that day, at 3:30 p.m., Brittan will speak at his first SOM faculty colloquium. |
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| | News release 25/03/99 - Sir Leon Brittan pays official visit to Malaysia |
| | If you would like to attend the press conference and/or lunch, please fill in the attached fax-reply form and return it to the EC Delegation. | | | During his visit, Sir Leon Brittan will meet with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Minister for International Trade and Industry, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, and Second Finance Minister Dato’ Mustapa Mohamed. | | | Please note that the lunch invitation is open to a limited number of journalists, for whom a table will be reserved. |
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http://www.deltha.cec.eu.int/en/news_1999/Leon_Brittan_pays_official_visit_to_Malaysia.htm
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| | Front Page 16.06.1999 |
| | The 'Millennium round' of negotiations, proposed by the EU, will be held at the end of the year in Seattle, Washington. | | | Sir Leon Brittan, the Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner responsible for external economic affairs and trade policy, visited Helsinki, 15 June, for talks with Foreign Trade Minister Kimmo Sasi on the next phase of negotiations by the World Trade Organisation. | | | European Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan was on a short visit in Helsinki and met with Premier Paavo Lipponen (left)on Tuesday. |
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| | INTERVIEW WITH LEON BRITTAN, FORMER EU TRADE COMMISSIONER Juan Senor |
| | Reports this week indicate Prime Minister Tony Blair is planning a referendum for May next year. | | | A big supporter of that effort is Leon Brittan, or Lord Brittan, the former EU trade commissioner, who is now vice chairman at UBS Warburg. | | | He sat down with Juan Senor in London. |
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| | CubaNet News |
| | Nov/08- Extract speech by Sir Leon Brittan, V. President of the European Commission | | | Nov/04- INTERVIEW WITH DR. HILDA MOLINA MOREJON/ BPIC |
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| | EURIM Newsletter No 11 - May 1997 |
| | The draft for the first briefing will be circulated to members shortly, for presentation on 5th June. | | | EURIM’s Godfather, Sir Leon Brittan, addressed members at our “Third Birthday Party” on January 17th in the Moses Room of the House of Lords. | | | The members of the WP are now discussing a high profile presentation meeting and an awareness and action campaign for launch after the General Election. |
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| | Speech by Sir Leon Brittan, Vice President European Commission | | | Its elder sister, the main Market Access Database, to which the new site is linked, was launched last year. | | | Although much progress has been made since the strategy was launched in 1996, Sir Leon Brittan, Vice-President of the European Commission, will stress that more needs to be done, especially for the services industry. |
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| | CEO Observer Issue 8 - Revolving Doors |
| | Brittan took over the LOTIS Chairmanship from his long-standing ally Andfdrew Buxton. | | | But after losing his brainchild the Millennium Round in Seattle, corporate politician Brittan could be in for another defeat. | | | Lord Brittan became Vice-Chairman of the investment bank UBS Warburg just three months after quitting as Trade Commissioner [3], and joined the London-based international law consultancy Herbert Smith on 1 January 2000, as part-time consultant on World Trade Organisation (WTO) issues. |
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| | UBS snare trade chief - Oct. 1, 1999 |
| | Brittan was the longest-serving commissioner in Brussels, and was not implicated in the scandal which forced the Commissioners to resign en masse in March. | | | Brittan, who entered the Commission 10 years ago as competition commissioner, later held the vice-presidency and trade portfolio. | | | Brittan is the second former competition commissioner to enter the investment banking sector. |
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| | Brittan's voyage to the damned |
| | On his return, Brittan will present the Council of Ministers with a | | | Brittan made the journey along the Three Gorges with his envoy and the | | | Brittan has suggested that the scheme should go ahead, provided that two |
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| | Sir Leon Brittan, the Vice President of the EU Commission was encouraged by the luncheon address. | | | Sir Leon Brittan also raised the issue of a grandfather clause for pioneering firms in the financial services field to avoid situations where these firms would lose market access as a result of the financial services agreements. | | | The remarks in financial services liberalization were preceded by Brittan's emphasis on the need to meet this year's deadlines in both professional services and financial services negotiations. |
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| | GATT GETS THE BLUES, BUT HOPES NOT DEAD |
| | Brittan, soon after the 23-hours of talks ended, went into a meeting of the EC Commission to report on the outcome and later into a meeting of the EC Council of Ministers. | | | Later, in the afternoon, ministers present in Geneva -- Kantor, Brittan and Ministers from Canada, Australia, and Brazil -- are to meet informally with Sutherland. | | | As of noon, Kantor was due to go back to Washington, and Brittan to Brussels, after their talks with Sutherland and perhaps some negotiators from other key countries supporting one or the other. |
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| | Sarebbe interessante sapere cosa ne pensano tutti coloro che, a cominciare dal vice-presidente della Commissione europea, Sir Leon Brittan, hanno dimostrato, nel corso di questi ultimi anni, una incessante fiducia nell'ineluttabilità di un processo di democratizzazione supposto in atto all'interno dell'ultimo impero comunista". |
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| | Sveriges Konsumenter i Samverkan |
| | Sir Leon Brittan in Boston: The case of the new transatlantic marketplace | | | Sir Leon Brittan told an audience of students and academics at Harvard University's Kennedy School that both the US and Europe had much to gain from a new bilateral deal - and he warned against the "total fallacy" of any "protectionist alternative", which would make political and economic losers of both sides. | | | In a speech delivered today in Boston, Sir Leon Brittan, Vice President of the European Commission, explained the Commission's new proposals for a New Transatlantic Marketplace - a wide-ranging plan to remove the remaining barriers to trade between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) - urging support for them in the US. |
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| | Brittan, Sir Leon on Encyclopedia.com |
| | EU Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan to Visit New York. | | | City: Brittan the banker Sir Leon Brittan has cleared his Brussels desk. |
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| | BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews |
| | The Conservative Party will by proper constitutional procedures, have taken a decision as to what its position is. HUMPHRYS: But your position won't have changed and you will continue to defend your position. | | | But that, I mean I just think that it is completely contrary to the pragmatic traditions of the Conservative Party to take one issue, however important it is, and to decide it's line on that issue, three and a half years before an election, when the Conservative Party does not have a policy.. | | | It may think it's unwise to have insisted on taking that decision and polarising the issue in that way. |
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| | NameTraq Last Name: Brittan |
| | The two had supposedly met in 1938 when Kennedy, then US Ambassador to Great Brittan, visited Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. | | | He and his wife, Brittan, toured the country, bought an airplane and their home based on the expectation his account was steadily growing. | | | But a note of sadness touched this year's dance, which was held Dec. 28 in honor of Thelma Brittan's birthday. |
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| | The WTO Millennium Bug |
| | Sir Leon Brittan in a speech entitled: "Europe and the United States: New Challenges, New Opportunities", address to The Foreign Policy Association, New York, USA, 23 September 1998. | | | Sir Leon Brittan in a speech entitled: "Europe and the United States: New challenges, New Opportunities", 23 September 1998. | | | All three of these "jewels in the WTO crown", as EU Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan termed them, were the result of systematic pressure on southern governments by the EU and the US. |
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| | Such an opinion was "profoundly misguided," the vice-president said, urging his audience to prepare for the advent of the euro and the immense ramifications it will have on the international financial system through its use as a major international reserve currency. | | | ollwing his trip to mainland China, Sir Leon Brittan, Vice-President of the European Commission, in charge of external relations and trade policy, spent two days in Hong Kong from February 20th to 21st to update his briefing on recent developments in the territory. | | | He congratulated the territory on its recent budget, remarking that it would further bolster the confidence of the European business community in Hong Kong. |
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| | GREENS/EFA |
| | As long as there has not been a full reform of the WTO, negotiations at the WTO level would harm, rather than help, the interests of weaker member states. | | | Purely speculative investment, for instance, has never proven to serve the interests of anybody other than the speculators themselves. | | | Sir Leon Brittan remembered that the WTO Working Group on Trade and Investment, on its meeting on 23-24 November 1998, might take the decision to start negotiations at the WTO. |
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| | Zundelsite - ZGram of May 30, 1996 |
| | European commissioner Sir Leon Brittan has lined up with the British government in opposing moves to make Holocaust denial a criminal offense throughout Europe. | | | Addressing an audience of Jewish communal leaders, european diplomats and MPs in London last week, Mr. | | | Revisionism continues to catch people as though it were an outbreak of the measles - the latest being some truly high caliber people in England. |
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