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Regulating social media: Tread middle path
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Published Oct 24, 2019, 1:52 am IST
Updated Oct 24, 2019, 1:52 am IST
The internet penetration in the county has been so deep that there is a significant rise in the use of social media among Indians. While YouTube,
However social media platforms said they cannot not be tied down in this manner.
With draft Information Technology Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment) Rules, 2018, likely to be finalised by January 15, 2020, will internet usage be regulated and Facebook and WhatsApp be reined in? The draft aims at checking the misuse of social media platforms and direct them to share with probe agencies the decrypted messages of people under investigation. The hearing in Supreme Court this week saw the Central and Tamil Nadu governments asserting that intermediaries were mandated under the Information Technology Act to provide probe agencies with decrypted messages. However social media platforms said they cannot not be tied down in this manner.
The internet penetration in the county has been so deep that there is a significant rise in the use of social media among Indians. While YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are widely popular, they are also facing flak for data theft and spread of misinformation.
Last year, rumours and misinformation about child kidnapping through WhatsApp led to cases of mob lynching and death of several people in the country. The ministry of electronics and information technology wanted WhatsApp to curb the spread of fake news, hate speech and identify users responsible for spreading such rumours.
Also, the Cambridge Analytica scam revealed that FB had allegedly shared data of several thousand Indian users with a consulting firm that had sought to influence Indian polls.
ByteDance's mobile app TikTok which allows its several million users to
create and share short videos was banned by the Madurai bench of Madras high court. The court noted that children were exposed to inappropriate content including pornography through the app. TikTok argued that it was merely an intermediary on which users can generate and post content. However, the Madras high court lifted the ban and warned TikTok against obscenity.
Similarly, Blue Whale game claimed several young lives. Widespread awareness made parents keep tabs on their wards against this deadly challenge. Google, FB and Twitter were asked to delete all
Blue Whale links from their platforms.
YouTube by offering an open platform is unable to prevent any video because it cannot examine every video uploaded.
The Centre, preparing the new rules to prevent internet misuse, is probably taking a cue from China which promotes its very own Internet giants like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. At the same time, the government may not want to curb the lucrative business route of US internet services.
The Supreme Court, while raising doubts whether intermediaries are under legal obligation to provide the decryp-
ted messages, said, "Prima facie, we don't agree.
We may agree with you eventually, but we do not agree straightway that they are mandated to share information." The judge cited the example of the US and said the government can have its own agency for decrypting of messages.
The Central government must avoid any knee-jerk reaction and tread the middle path in formulating guidelines to regulate intermediaries. While users
must fully know what data is used, social media platforms must take responsibility for the content they distribute among users and understand their obligations.
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South Korean Independence War
Date 19 November 2008 - 21 November 2008 –
Location South Korea, Japan
Result South Korea reestablished as a country
Territorial Changes Chungcheongnam-do, Gyeongsangnam-do and Gyeonggi-do
South Korean Independence Forces
The Korean Independence War began on November 19, 2008 in a coordinated offensive in the provinces of Gyeonggi-do, Gyeongsangnam-do and Chungcheongnam-do. South Korea had been a part of Japan since the Japan-South Korea War that ended on May 8, 2008.
South Korea's Independence was panned and directed by siddy and Richie450. It took less then 20 days to plan this war, At the time Richie450 Had struck a deal with ATLANTIS So that they would help him liberate south Korea in order to distract PEACE members in the area then siddy called (President of Argentina that the time) units from the military to help out.Alongside a resistance force that had been formed by Richie himself lead the way into battle,The attempt was a success due to numerous disputed reasons. This war was mainly fought by the Argentinean army Because of There refusal to fund the resistance force with the money needed to start the war. President Siddy had orders to invade Japan, and to start Independence war in order to form a distraction. Although Argentinean army saw early success, near the end, in two of the regions, Gyeonggi-do and Gyeongsangnam-do, Japanese army had pushed Argentinean soldiers to no-men land. However due to bug, Japan was unable to secure it, even after overwhelming the region, and led to the loss of all three regions unfairly, and this cause a tremendous amount of dispute which continues to last even almost 2 years later with the editing of wiki pages and filling them with the wrong information . [?]
Battle for Chungcheongnam-do
Outcome - Won by South Korea
Link - Battle of Chungcheongnam-do
Began - 20 November 2008
Ended - 20 November 2008
Started By - Pier
Hero for South Korea - arcadia (-2078)
Hero for Japan - Antonio Fonti (4303)
Battle for Gyeongsangnam-do
Link - Battle of Gyeongsangnam-do
Started By - fgrasso
Hero for Japan - Grief (5489)
Battle for Gyeonggi-do
Link - Battle of Gyeonggi-do
Started By - Joimzhando
Hero for South Korea - Guibrit (-1888)
Hero for Japan - Melkion (1796)
Retrieved from "https://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php?title=South_Korean_Independence_War&oldid=764460"


As Beijing honors UN-imposed economic sanctions against North Korea, trade with its troublesome neighbor fell 50 percent in December.
North Korea gets nearly all of its goods and energy supplies from China, but the Asian giant has imposed limits on oil sales and cut deeply into Pyongyang's foreign revenue by ordering North Korean businesses in China to close.
Also, Beijing has ordered North Korean migrant workers to go home and has banned sales of coal, textiles, seafood and other goods to North Korea.
It should be noted, however, illegal sales of fuel and other goods have been occurring in international waters between North Korea, Russia and China. That said, these reductions in trade are significant.


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The Université de Montréal (UdeM; French pronunciation: [ynivɛʁsite də mɔ̃ʁeal]) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located on the northern slope of Mount Royal in the Outremont and Côte-des-Neiges boroughs. The institution comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the Polytechnique Montréal (School of Engineering; formerly the École Polytechnique de Montréal) and HEC Montréal (School of Business). It offers more than 650 undergraduate programmes and graduate programmes, including 71 doctoral programmes.
AUCC, IAU, AUF, AUFC, ACU, U Sports, QSSF, IFPU, U15, CBIE, CUP.
The university was founded as a satellite campus of the Université Laval in 1878. It became a independent institution after it was issued a papal charter in 1919, and a provincial charter in 1920. Université de Montréal moved from Montreal's Quartier Latin to its present location at Mount Royal in 1942. It was made a secular institution with the passing of another provincial charter in 1967.
The school is co-educational, and has over 34,335 undergraduate and over 11,925 post-graduate students (excluding affiliated schools). Alumni and former students reside across Canada and around the world, with notable alumni serving as government officials, academics, and business leaders.
The Université de Montréal was founded in 1878 as a new branch of Université Laval in Quebec City. It was then known as the Université de Laval à Montréal. The move initially went against the wishes of Montréal's prelate, who advocated an independent university in his city. Certain parts of the institution's educational facilities, such as those of the Séminaire de Québec and the Faculty of Medicine, founded as the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, had already been established in Montréal in 1876 and 1843, respectively.
The Vatican granted the university some administrative autonomy in 1889, thus allowing it to choose its own professors and license its own diplomas. However, it was not until 8 May 1919 that a papal charter from Pope Benedict XV granted full autonomy to the university. It thus became an independent Catholic university and adopted Université de Montréal as its name. Université de Montréal was granted its first provincial charter on 14 February 1920.
At the time of its creation, less than a hundred students were admitted to the university's three faculties, which at that time were located in Old Montreal. These were the Faculty of Theology (located at the Grand séminaire de Montréal), the Faculty of Law (hosted by the Society of Saint-Sulpice), and the Faculty of Medicine (at the Château Ramezay).
Graduate training based on German-inspired American models of specialized coursework and completion of a research thesis was introduced and adopted. Most of Québec's secondary education establishments employed classic course methods of varying quality. This forced the university to open a preparatory school in 1887 to harmonize the education level of its students. Named the "Faculty of Arts", this school would remain in use until 1972 and was the predecessor of Québec's current CEGEP system.
Two distinct schools eventually became affiliated to the university. The first was the École Polytechnique, a school of engineering, which was founded in 1873 and became affiliated in 1887. The second was the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, or HEC (a business school), which was founded in 1907 and became part of the university in 1915. In 1907, Université de Montréal opened the first francophone school of architecture in Canada at the École Polytechnique.
Between 1920 and 1925, seven new faculties were added: Philosophy, Literature, Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Dental Surgery, Pharmacy, and Social Sciences. Notably, the Faculty of Social Sciences was founded in 1920 by Édouard Montpetit, the first laic to lead a faculty. He thereafter was named secretary-general, a role he fulfilled until 1950.
From 1876 to 1895, most classes took place in the Grand séminaire de Montréal. From 1895 to 1942, the school was housed in a building at the intersection of Saint-Denis and Sainte-Catherine streets in Montreal's eastern downtown Quartier Latin. Unlike English-language universities in Montréal, such as McGill University, Université de Montréal suffered a lack of funding for two major reasons: the relative poverty of the French Canadian population and the complications ensuing from its being managed remotely, from Quebec City. The downtown campus was hit by three different fires between 1919 and 1921, further complicating the university's already precarious finances and forcing it to spend much of its resources on repairing its own infrastructure.
By 1930, enough funds had been accumulated to start the construction of a new campus on the northwest slope of Mount Royal, adopting new plans designed by Ernest Cormier. However, the financial crisis of the 1930s virtually suspended all ongoing construction. Many speculated that the university would have to sell off its unfinished building projects in order to ensure its own survival. Not until 1939 did the provincial government directly intervene by injecting public funds.
The campus's construction subsequently resumed and the mountain campus was officially inaugurated on 3 June 1943. The Cote-des-Neiges site includes property expropriated from a residential development along Decelles Avenue, known as Northmount Heights. The university's former downtown facilities would later serve Montreal's second francophone university, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
In 1943, the university assisted the Western Allies by providing laboratory accommodations on its campus. Scientists there worked to develop a nuclear reactor, notably by conducting various heavy water experiments. The research was part of the larger Manhattan Project, which aimed to develop the first atomic bomb. Scientists working on the school's campus eventually produced the first atomic battery to work outside of the United States. One of the participating Québec scientists, Pierre Demers, also discovered a series of radioactive elements issued from Neptunium.
Université de Montréal was issued its second provincial charter in 1950. A new government policy of higher education during the 1960s (following the Quiet Revolution) came in response to popular pressure and the belief that higher education was key to social justice and economic productivity. The policy led to the school's ' third provincial charter, which was passed in 1967. It defined the Université de Montréal as a public institution, dedicated to higher learning and research, with students and teachers having the right to participate in the school's administration.
In 1965, the appointment of the university's first secular rector, Roger Gaudry, paved the way for modernization. The school established its first adult-education degree program offered by a French Canadian university in 1968. That year the Lionel-Groulx and 3200 Jean-Brillant buildings were inaugurated, the former being named after Quebec nationalist Lionel Groulx. The following year, the Louis Collin parking garage - which won a Governor General's medal for its architecture in 1970 - was erected.
An important event that marked the university's history was the École Polytechnique massacre. On 6 December 1989, a gunman armed with a rifle entered the École Polytechnique building, killing 14 people, all of whom were women, before taking his own life.
Since 2002, the university has embarked on its largest construction project since the late 1960s, with the construction of five new buildings planned for advanced research in pharmacology, engineering, aerospace, cancer studies and biotechnology.
The university's main campus is located on the northern slope of Mount Royal in the Outremont and Côte-des-Neiges boroughs. Its landmark Pavilion Roger-Gaudry - known until 2003 as Pavillon principal  - and named for former rector Roger Gaudry - can be seen from around the campus and is known for its imposing tower. It is built mainly in the Art Deco style with some elements of International style and was designed by noted architect Ernest Cormier. On 14 September 1954, a Roll of Honour plaque on the wall at the right of the stairs to the Court of Honour in Roger-Gaudry Pavillon was dedicated to alumni of the school who died in while in the Canadian military during the Second World War.  On November 1963, a memorial plaque was dedicated to the memory of those members of the Université de Montréal who served in the Armed Forces during the First and Second World Wars and Korea. The Mont-Royal campus is served by the Côte-des-Neiges, Université-de-Montréal, and Édouard-Montpetit metro stations.
Apart from its main Mont-Royal campus, the university also maintains five regional facilities in Terrebonne, Laval, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe and Mauricie. The campus in Laval, just north of Montréal, was opened in 2006. It is Laval's first university campus and is located in the area near the Montmorency metro station and opposite to Collège Montmorency In October 2009, the university announced an expansion of its Laval satellite campus with the commissioning of the six-storey Cité du Savoir complex. The Mauricie campus in the city of Trois-Rivières is known for its association with the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and as a satellite campus for the university's faculty of medicine. In order to solve the problem of lack of space on its main campus, the university is also planning to open a new campus in Outremont.
The Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine are the two teaching hospital networks of the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine, although the latter is also affiliated with other medical institutions such as the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal Heart Institute, Hôpital Sacré-Coeur and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont. A plaque dedicated to the personnel of the "Hôpital Général Canadien No. 6 (Université Laval de Montréal)" from 1916 to 1920 was donated by Mr. Louis de Gonzague Beaubien in 1939.
The J.-Armand-Bombardier Incubator is among buildings jointly erected by the Université de Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal. The incubator is part on the main Campus of Université de Montréal and was built in the fall of 2004 with the aim of helping R&D-intensive startup companies by providing complete infrastructures at advantageous conditions.
The environment helps promote collaboration between industries and academics while encouraging Quebec entrepreneurship. Since its creation the Incubator has hosted more than fifteen companies, mainly in the biomedical field (Cuttle Pharmaceuticals, Angiotech, Siegfried, Haemacure) in the field of polymer / surface treatment (Solaris Chem, Cerestech, Nanomextrix, Novaplasma) in optics / photonics (Photon etc., Castor Optics, Thorlabs, Genia Photonics) and IT security (ESET, Urqui).
View of Université de Montréal's main campus, taken in June 2017. The majority of the university's facilities are located on this campus.
The Université de Montréal is a publicly funded research university, and a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. Undergraduate students make the majority of the university community, accounting for 74 per cent of the university student body, whereas graduate students account for 24 per cent of the student body. The university presently has 66,768 students (including students from affiliated institutions HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal). More than 9,500 university students are international students, while another 8,000 are considered permanent residents of Canada. From the 1 June 2010 to the 31 May 2011, the university conferred 7,012 bachelor's degrees, 461 doctoral degrees, and 3,893 master's degrees.
Depending on a student's citizenship, they may be eligible for financial assistance from the Student Financial Assistance program, administered by the provincial Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports, and/or the Canada Student Loans and Grants through the federal and provincial governments. The university's Office of Financial Aid acts as intermediaries between the students and the Quebec government for all matters relating to financial assistance programs. The financial aid provided may come in the form of loans, grants, bursaries, scholarships fellowships and work programs.
Université de Montréal has consistently has been ranked in a number of university rankings. In the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, the university ranked 101–150 in the world and 5–6 in Canada. The 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed the university was ranked 90th in the world, and fifth in Canada. The 2019 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 149th in the world and sixth in Canada. In U.S. News & World Report 2019 global university rankings, the university placed 136th, and fifth in Canada. In Maclean's 2019 Canadian university rankings, the university was ranked 10th in both their Medical-Doctoral university category, and in their reputation ranking for Canadian universities. The university was ranked in spite of having opted out from participation in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.
Université de Montréal also placed in a number of rankings that evaluated the employment prospects of graduates. In QS's 2019 graduate employability ranking, the university ranked 151–160 in the world, and ninth in Canada. In the Times Higher Education's 2018 global employability ranking, the university placed 37th in the world, and third in Canada.
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Université de Montréal is a member of the U15, a group that represents 15 Canadian research universities. The university includes 465 research units and departments. In 2018, Research Infosource ranked the university third in their list of top 50 research universities; with a sponsored research income (external sources of funding) of $536.238 million in 2017. In the same year, the university's faculty averaged a sponsored research income of $271,000, while its graduates averaged a sponsored research income of $33,900.
Université de Montréal research performance has been noted several bibliometric university rankings, which uses citation analysis to evaluates the impact a university has on academic publications. In 2018, the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ranked Dalhousie 99th in the world, and fifth in Canada. The University Ranking by Academic Performance 2018–19 rankings placed the university 99th in the world, and fifth in Canada.
The school's two main student unions are the Fédération des associations étudiantes du campus de l'Université de Montréal (FAÉCUM), which represents all full-time undergraduate and graduate students, and the Association Étudiante de la Maîtrise et du Doctorat de HEC Montréal (AEMD), which defends the interests of those enrolled in HEC Montréal. FAÉCUM traces its lineage back to 1989, when the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ) was founded, and is currently the largest student organization in Québec. Accredited organizations and clubs on campus cover a wide range of interests ranging from academics to cultural, religion and social issues. FAÉCUM is currently associated with 82 student organizations and clubs. Four fraternities and sororities are recognized by the university's student union, Sigma Thêta Pi, Nu Delta Mu, Zeta Lambda Zeta, Eta Psi Delta.
The university's student population operates a number of news media outlets. The Quartier Libre is the school's main student newspaper. CISM-FM is an independently-owned radio station. It is owned by the students of the Université de Montréal and operated by the student union. The radio station dates back to 1970, and it received a permit from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on 10 July 1990 to transmit on an FM band. On 14 March 1991, CISM's broadcasting antenna was boosted to 10 000 watts. With a broadcasting radius of 70 km, CISM is now the world's largest French-language university radio station. The CFTU-DT television station also receives technical and administrative support from the student body.
Université de Montréal's sports teams are known as the Carabins. The Carabins participate in the U Sports' Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference for most varsity sports. Varsity teams include rugby, badminton, Canadian football, cheerleading, golf, hockey, swimming, alpine skiing, soccer, tennis, track and field, cross-country, and volleyball. The athletics program at the university dates back to 1922. The university's athletic facilities is open to both its varsity teams and students. The largest sports facility is the Centre d'éducation physique et des sports de l'Université de Montréal (CEPSUM), which is also home to all of the Carabin's varsity teams. The CEPSUM's building was built in 1976 in preparation for the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montréal. The outdoor stadium of the CEPSUM, which hosts the university's football team, can seat around 5,100 people.
Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor General of Canada.
Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
Robert Bourassa, 22nd Premier of Quebec.
Pierre Karl Péladeau, former president and CEO of Quebecor.
Louise Arbour, 5th United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ishfaq Ahmad, nuclear physicist known for his work with Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
Lucille Teasdale-Corti, physician and pediatric surgeon.
Yoshua Bengio, computer scientist, co-recipient of the 2018 Turing Award for his work in deep learning.
The university has an extensive alumni network, with more than 300,000 members of the university's alumni network. Throughout the university's history, faculty, alumni, and former students have played prominent roles in a number of fields. Several prominent business leaders have graduated from the university. Graduates include Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, founder and CEO of Telemedia, Louis R. Chênevert, chairman and CEO of the United Technologies Corporation, and Pierre Karl Péladeau, former president and CEO of Quebecor.
A number of students have also gained prominence for their research and work in a number of scientific fields. Roger Guillemin, a graduate of the university, would later be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with neurohormones. Alumnus Ishfaq Ahmad, would also gain prominence for his work with Pakistan's nuclear weapon's program. Jocelyn Faubert, known for his work in the fields of visual perception, is currently a faculty member of the university. Gilles Brassard, best known for his fundamental work in quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation, quantum entanglement distillation, quantum pseudo-telepathy, and the classical simulation of quantum entanglement.Ian Goodfellow is a thought leader in the field of artificial intelligence.
Many former students have gained local and national prominence for serving in government, including Former Supreme Court of Canada Judge and UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour. Michaëlle Jean served as Governor General of Canada, Ahmed Benbitour, who served as the Prime Minister of Algeria, and Pierre Trudeau who served as the Prime Minister of Canada. Eleven Premiers of Quebec have also graduated from Université de Montréal, including Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Robert Bourassa, Maurice Duplessis, Lomer Gouin, Daniel Johnson, Jr., Daniel Johnson Sr., Pierre-Marc Johnson, Bernard Landry, Jacques Parizeau, Paul Sauvé  and Philippe Couillard.
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Italy, Monti and Draghi: the case for skilled individual negotiators as catalysts for EU influence?
Marianna Lovato, University College Dublin
Much like its men's national football team – who won the 2020 European Championship only to be knocked out of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers by North Macedonia – Italy's performance in EU-level negotiations is inconsistent at best. How is it that one of the Union's founding members, not to mention the third economy of the EU with a sizeable administrative capacity, has such a patchy record in terms of negotiation success at the EU level? Based on rationalist accounts of EU decision-making, one should expect a country with Italy's economic weight and voting power to have a much better – and more consistent – track record when it comes to negotiation success at the EU level. And yet, Italy can easily prove to be an indispensable broker at times and a laggard at others. In my recent JCMS article, I argue that turning to the interplay of member states' administrative capacities, political dynamics and individual negotiators' characteristics might help account for Italy's puzzling performance.
Scholars have long emphasized the importance of countries' administrative capacities and bureaucratic structures for their ability to shape the EU decision-making process. Specifically, the development of a formal structure dealing with EU policies, the level of coordination within and between Ministries – as well as between parliament and the executive – and the effectiveness of coordination bodies on EU policies all affect a country's performance in EU negotiations.
From larger member states like France and Germany to the smaller ones like Belgium and Sweden, domestic politics matter for a member state's ability to influence EU negotiations. Relevant political factors include variables such as political stability, intra- and inter-party tensions, the cohesion of the parliamentary majority and the predisposition of the political elites towards Europe. Indeed, unstable governments, internally divided majorities and eurosceptic elites all concur to undermine a member state's bargaining power in EU negotiations.
Finally, individual negotiators tend, for better or worse, to leave their mark on EU policy outcomes as well. Skilled ones can leverage their own expertise and connections to further their member state's interests in the negotiations. Conversely, negotiators lacking the necessary experience, know-how and networks to effectively make their voice heard in Brussels tend to be ignored by their counterparts. The role of individual negotiators deserves even more attention after the Lisbon Treaty reforms, which have strengthened the influence that heads of state and governments exercise across all policy areas.
If, individually, these three sets of factors have a direct effect on EU negotiation outcomes, looking at their interplay provides even more interesting answers to Italy's perplexing performance at the EU level. Indeed, an individual leader's ability to shape the negotiations can be critically constrained by the political and administrative domestic context in which they act. A high rate of government turnover implies a frequent change of negotiators with varying degrees of expertise. And while civil servants might remain the same, a new executive implies a change in ministers, who play a critical role in the later stages of Council negotiations. In turn, political dynamics and coordination mechanisms influence one another – and the member state's overall bargaining power – in critical ways. If, as it is the case in Italy, the coordination mechanism on EU policies is an ad hoc system, it tends to vary from one government – and one set of negotiators – to the next. Moreover, any political tensions or animosity that might arise within a coalition government will likely hinder domestic coordination between different ministries.
In a nutshell, the article contends that these three sets of domestic factors – and their interplay – moderate the degree of bargaining power available to a given member state and, as a result, shape the negotiation success that member state can achieve.
In my article, I provide evidence as to the effect of these domestic factors in the context of two EU negotiations concerning fiscal policies, one representing a case of negotiation success for Italy (the European Stability Mechanism, ESM) – and one an instance of negotiation failure (the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, BRRD). These two case studies help illustrate the role of domestic factors in either limiting or enhancing a country's bargaining power in EU negotiations.
Following the 2011 sovereign debt crisis, the pressing need for prompt countermeasures led the EU and Eurozone member states to turn the European Financial Stability Facility into a permanent bail-out fund, the ESM. On 11 March 2011, member states formally agreed on the establishment of the ESM, formalizing the decision through an ad hoc Intergovernmental Treaty, signed on 2 February 2012. The ESM, however, would only be inaugurated in October 2012. In the months between its establishment and entry into force, member states held further discussions as to how exactly the various ESM instruments should operate, including the eligibility criteria for loans. Over the course of the negotiations, political stability, efficient co- ordination and, above all, individual negotiators' skills allowed the Italian government to leverage a considerable amount of bargaining power, thus securing its interests in the negotiations. In particular, Silvio Berlusconi's resignation from office in November 2011 and the arrival of Mario Monti at the head of a technocratic government turned things around for Italy. Former Commissioner for Internal Market and then for Competition Policy, Monti quickly set up a highly efficient domestic coordination mechanism, placing trusted colleagues at the head of the Ministry of European Affairs and Ministry of Finance, working closely with the Bank of Italy and reporting regularly to Parliament. Enjoying a continued period of domestic political stability, Monti capitalized on his coalition-building efforts with France and Spain to obtain last additional concessions on the ESM at a pivotal Eurosummit in June 2012.
With the BRRD, European governments and EU institutions sought to establish a framework to regulate the management of failing banks with minimum risks to financial stability, while also reducing the costs for taxpayers and sovereign debts. As often happens in negotiations on financial and fiscal policy, a Southern and Northern European camp soon emerged. If the expertise and specialized knowledge of Italian negotiators from the Finance Ministry and Bank of Italy was evident to their counterparts in the Commission and across the other member states, the considerable levels of political instability that Italy experienced during the negotiations (2008-2013) significantly curtailed the efforts made at the technical level. Indeed, the constant changes in the executive made it impossible for Finance Ministers to capitalize on the efforts made at the technical level by well-coordinated and skillful negotiators. What is more, the case of the BRRD negotiations shows that an overall favorable domestic context is a necessary – but not a sufficient – precondition to ensure negotiation success. In particular, the lack of support at the EU level – primarily in the form of firm opposition by Northern European member states – prevented Italy from leading blocking coalitions and engaging in veto threats, ultimately leading to a very low degree of negotiation success for Rome.
In short, the ad hoc nature of domestic coordination mechanisms on EU policymaking, coupled with the systemic instability of Italian politics and the consequent turnover in negotiators at ministerial level, results in an inconsistent performance in EU negotiations. Specifically, if in the case of the ESM negotiators' expertise, an efficient coordination mechanism and political stability ensured the successful promotion of Italian interests; the negotiations of the BRRD show that frequent government turnover can hamper the efforts of expert and well-coordinated civil servants.
Most recently, the interplay of administrative, political and individual domestic factors can help explain Italy's role in the current EU-level negotiations on Ukraine. Much like Monti, Mario Draghi is leveraging his non-negligible reputational capital, which he (also) accumulated thanks to his performance as ECB President, to revendicate a place of prominence for Italy in addressing the several crises that the Union has had to face over the last few years, including the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Horowitz 2022, O'Leary 2022, Malingre 2022, Ladurner 2021). The presence of individual negotiators of the caliber of Draghi even earned Italy The Economist's nomination as country of the year in 2021. The recognition was unmistakably due to Draghi himself, hailed by The Economist as 'a competent, internationally respected, prime minister'. Likewise, POLITICO recently named Draghi the most powerful person in Europe, praising him for 'lending his significant gravitas to a country that has long punched below its weight in the European arena'. The significant influence that Draghi came to wield in Europe was also possible thanks to the support of almost all parties in parliament. And yet, nothing in Italy is as short lived as political stability. Recent domestic political squabbles among governing parties – made all the more acute by such a large and diverse ruling coalition – are threatening Italy's effectiveness at the EU and international level. Only a few days ago, Draghi's trip to Madrid for a historic NATO summit had to be cut short by multiple parties' attempts to sabotage the stability of the governing coalition (Sesto 2022, Roberts 2022).
Among other things, the article hopes to serve as a reminder that, despite populist parties – both in Italy and abroad – advocating for a rejection of "technocrats" and "experts" like Mario Draghi, it is precisely those skilled individual negotiators who help make the difference between irrelevance and influence at the EU level.
Focusing on the interplay of domestic factors not only helps better account for Italy's inconsistent performance in EU negotiations, but can offer promising results for other member states and policy areas as well. As it turns out, political tensions arising from coalition infighting, the efficiency of domestic coordination on EU policies and the expertise of negotiators shape bargaining outcomes for Rome as much as they do for Berlin, Warsaw or Madrid.
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Due to the sprawling nature of the place it's tricky at first to find good eateries; so here's a list of my top five places to get some decent food. There are many Vietnamese options of course, and most are a hit and miss affair. Stick to the Com Ga (chicken rice) or Pho Bo (beef noodles) and you can't really go too wrong if you like it simple.
This list is mainly Western style food, but these are undoubtedly the best places to get this kind of food here in Da Nang.
Burger bros, An thoung 4. Undoubtedly the best burger in Da Nang and maybe even Vietnam, this little place hasn't been open long but you can see from the Tripadvisor reviews it's popularity-and rightly so. Great home made burgers using Japanese Wagu beef and reasonably priced. The fries are home made and well seasoned with thyme and garlic. Staff are friendly and always smiling. Prices start at 70k VND for the basic burger up to 120k for the double My Khe. Check it out.
2. Luna Pub, Tran Phu Street. Located over on the Westside of the river, this Italian urban style restaurant produces great home made pizzas alongside many other flavourful dishes. Try the pizza brekka with an egg. Lots of decent drinks here too at reasonable prices and a good place to take a date. Live music on a Tues and Thursday as well. Pizzas are around the 170k mark but are large enough for two to share.
3. Family Indian, 251 Ho Nghinh. A decent curry house in Da Nang with reasonable prices starting at 79k for a chicken curry. This place has really upped its game recently with the food getting better each time i visit. If you're craving a curry and you're in Da Nang, get yourself to Family indian.
4. Tams Pub, An Thoung 5, My Khe. Tams pub is not really a pub but a small eatery run by the infamous Tam. She delights in cooking homemade dishes for you accompanied by stories of the war. The walls are plastered with interesting photos taken during wartime and she is full of interesting tales of how she was shot at many times and carried bombs away from army camps…food wise the omelettes are great as well as the curry soup and potatoe skins. there's also some Vietnamese dishes on the menu that are cooked authentically as well. You can also hire surfboards here for the day as well as motorbikes.
5. 'Dirty Chicken,' Hai Coi, Nguyen Van Thoi. There's 3 BBQ chicken joints here in a row and all are good. It's a bit like Vietnamese fast food. You get some cucumber, salt/pepper/lemon/lime and some chilli and as much BBQ chicken wings and feet you can eat. It's 15K per chicken wing and 5 or 6 will fill you up nicely.
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I totally agree with you. I tried 4/5 of the listing: Burger bros, Luna pub, Tams pub and Hai Coi. All are amazing. Next time i will visit Family Indian. The most favorite restaurant is Burger bro where i had the best burger in Vietnam with warm smiles. One of their friendly staff had recommended many interesting activities in Danang as Hai Van pass, Monkey mountains, also a Danang Home cooking class. We had a fantastic day with Katie in cooking class. We visited a local market, trying a great coffee cup and being a garden farmer at vegetable garden. Great Danang!


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Car audio system manufacturers normally produce their own speakers. There are some exceptions of course. Here are some of the most well-known and appreciated car speaker manufacturers: Pioneer, Alpine, JVC, Sony, Dynaudio, Kenwood, Robin, Audio Engine, Pyramid, and Sony. Other, less known brands offer car speakers at quite reasonable prices and reviews could be a way to check their ratings: Juice, Audio Shock, Altec Lansig, JBL, T1, Lanzar, and Onkyo.
Speakers are spoken about in terms of certain features such as frequency response, sensitivity, and maximum power RMS. Frequency response refers to the range of frequencies that a speaker can render. Sensitivity is related to the maximum distance the sound will travel and still be heard. According to these features there are multi-element car speakers, mid-bass car speakers, component car speakers and sub woofers. Car stereo speakers need to have high and wide frequency response and high RMS if you are plan to use them on a consistent basis.


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A Decade of Community Service: Our Very Own Monica Frost
March 2, 2017 /in Brewery Tours
Craft beer is our passion at Vancouver Brewery Tours, and every single member of the team applied for a job with us because they wanted to not only express that passion, but also to support the growth of our local craft beer community. As a result we're lucky to have some serious experience and firepower on the team!
A few of our guides are commercial brewers, homebrewers, Cicerones, advocates, volunteers and much more. Even with all this talent, there is one team member that clearly stands out for not only her experience, but also for her contribution and continued dedication to the community as a whole, and that is our very own Operations Coordinator Monica Frost.
Monica works hard behind the scenes for us coordinating all aspects of our Public and Private Vancouver Brewery Tours, social media, customer service and much, much more. If you've ever booked a Private Brewery Tour with us chances are you've either spoken to or received emails from Monica as the voice of our tour program. Monica has been with us for over 2 years and continues to not only further our own interests but also the craft beer community as she plans brewery tours with over 19 breweries on our tours.
That is why we were thrilled to see Monica receive much deserved recognition in the most recent edition of What's Brewing Magazine. Monica was profiled for her "Decade of Community Service" which mentions the various roles she's held in the community and acknowledges her for her continued contribution.
The full article can be found in the most recent edition of What's Brewing Magazine here https://issuu.com/whatsbrewing/docs/2017-01/10
Ryan Mackey
Owner | Vancouver Brewery Tours
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Chapter 89.2: Four Powerful Cards in Hand!
The whole floating tower lit up again, the height was at least 50 thousand meters, and its diameter was at least 15 thousand meters. It could generate a mix of virtual and real elements to fabricate the battleground, and was one of the miracles left behind by the prehistoric civilization.
The surroundings were changing again. A valley began to appear, and so did rivers and forests.
This was an energy based virtual environment. Each mountain was an energy body, allowing Han to actually climb up. But these mountains didn't have a physical entity, they were formed by energy beams shot down from all sides of the floating tower coupled with virtual reality technology. A virtual mountain was created with all the characteristics of a real mountain.
As for Han's opponents, they were real physical entities created using their genetic development technology and they were under the control of the central system. They could be understood as a more advanced version of clones.
Han's opponents began to appear, they stood up from hills, crawled out from rivers, and walked out from forests. It was definitely more than 10 thousand, and they have surrounded Han.
They were from an alien race again. They had grey white bodies and curved eyes. Their eyeballs were red, and didn't have any combat suits protecting them so they were half naked.
Their upper bodies were long, and their pair of big legs were even more exaggerated. Full of steel-like muscles, showing that they should be capable of strong jumping abilities and overall mobility.
"F**k, it's another siege again!" Han looked around and cursed.
The system's setting in the floating tower was quite annoying. Every time the enemies would surround Han and create a siege battle. If the enemies all came out from one direction, Han could at least save some energy.
But now, enemies could come from all sides!
The siege began! Countless alien enemies rushed straight for Han!
No, they didn't rush, they bounced!
So this grey white skinned alien race were all bounce type espers. They were all like grasshoppers, capable of bouncing a few hundred meters high so they could instantly bounce a few hundred meters to appear right in front of Han.
Han was so angry that he wanted to curse. It was as if the floating tower had seen through Han's weakness and specifically picked opponents that countered Han's ability.
Bounce type espers' feature were their burst strength and momentum. This type of enemy was very annoying because momentum was a type of physical attack. Even if Han took away their power, they could still use the momentum they created through the initial bounce to rush to Han's face.
Han gritted his teeth and his eyes became cold. His fingers lightly touched his ring, and a blade suddenly appeared in his hand. The Silver Moon Crescent blade, the top tier weapon from the Zizhu Empire.
Han's dark power was really destructive, so Han not only broke the right arm portion of his combat suit, he even slightly bended this priceless weapon.
But, Silver Moon Crescent blade's edge was still sharp!
In addition, Han didn't just have Void End, he also knew a forbidden martial art!
The Six Paths of the Void!
They just saw Han's body twist in a very strange way, and the sharp edge in his hand approached the enemy in a completely unexpected angle and gently came into contact with them.
The sharp edge immediately opened up a huge cut on the enemy's neck. The enemies would keep charging forward for a few meters, then collapse onto the ground, with their hand covering their neck as their body gradually become cold.
Bounce type espers still had a weakness. When they initiated their jump, they were like a bullet. Although very fast, but they move in a straight line and can't change their path in the air. Once they pass Han, they can't stop themselves immediately, and they would continue catapulting tens of meters before coming to a full stop.
This just meant that the bounce type espers were destined to be a live target in the air once they initiated a bounce, as long as Han was agile enough and his edge was sharp enough, he could take their lives before they landed on the ground again!
And Han's Void End wasn't completely useless. The four star Han could take away everyone's power within a 100-meter radius!
These bounce type enemies must catapult themselves outside of the 100-meter range, or else they won't be able to do anything anymore. And if bounce type espers couldn't bounce, then their combat strength will be greatly reduced and they won't be an opponent for Han.
Han became completely mercilessly. Whether they were fusion beings or clones, he needed to kill them first!
The enemies that bounced over were killed midair, and enemies that ran towards Han were killed before they even got close!
In a blink of an eye, corpses were everywhere, and blood flowed like rivers.
The Silver Moon Crescent Blade in Han's hand began to quickly reap the lives of enemies!
Two pill instantly went into Han's mouth, drastically improving Han's perception ability.
Faced with these high jumping enemies, Han's perception and reflexes became extremely important. Due to Han's unique tolerance for toxins, he could rely on drugs to force his perception to be more sensible, and his moves to be more agile!
During the first test, Han, on average, killed one enemy every minute.
But this time, he was killing one every few seconds.
Kill without having to worry about anything!
Han was currently shouldering a huge responsibility; he was shouldering the hope of the entire Earth!
If becoming an emotionless killing machine was what is took to save Earth from being colonized, then Han will become the most merciless killer in the0Milky Way! He won't frown no matter how many he kills!
In fact, Han's ability to kill was more powerful than he expected.
Because he not only had the Void end, but also the power of half of the Heart of Darkness, the power of Six Paths of Void, and also the super tolerance for toxins!
Exactly four powerful cards in hand!
So, you're not always going to split up the chapters right?
For GDN, i dont think i will ever release chapter parts on different days.
wow wasnt expecting the second part so soon XD thanks!
Thanks for the second half of teh chapter as well!
Thank you for the double chapters! Han should be glad the opponents are not like those in dark souls series with those 'you will most likely die' combination.
ty ^-^ I love you Black Bean Sauce… Does black bean sauce taste good???
Wooo hooo! too bad he cant create a blackhole and dump the enemies into the void.
This kinda reminds me of Reincarnator.


Get out your ugly sweaters and start making some holiday-themed baked goods. It's time to celebrate Christmas! What's a Christmas celebration without a little music? Each and every year we track the best new Christian Christmas songs you should consider adding to your list of favorites. In a year where there weren't many big Christmas albums, fans were graced instead with a number of EPs and singles from artists across all spectrums. Here are some of our favorite new Christian Christmas songs from 2018.
On top of spiritual content, the Christian genre also delivers a steady stream of wonderful fiction books year after year. We are excited to share these stories from some of the best new release Christian books of 2018. Promising debuts from new authors and great installments from beloved writers make up this year's collection. If you're need something fun to read this holiday season, check out one of these new release Christian books.
With only about a month left in 2018, it's time to list some of our favorite new release Christian books of the year. Whether you're looking to catch up on a year's worth of reading or you simply want to find a good stocking stuffer, we've got your back. This year's biggest non-fiction books range from harrowing biographies to self-help to better understanding Christianity in the 21st century. While not every book may be to your liking, we know there are at least a few great reads waiting for your bookshelf.
During the holiday season there can be a lot going on. Sometimes you just need a good movie to bring the family together. If you've burnt out watching "Elf" and "Miracle on 34th Street," we've got some of the best Christian movies for families. Between dramatic films and animated comedies, these Christian movies for families have what you need this Christmas. Here are some of our top suggestions.
With the holiday season quickly approaching, you know it's time to check out all of the new Christian Christmas albums of 2018. One change you'll notice with this year's batch of new Christian Christmas albums is the presence of more EPs and less full albums. This is somewhat expected, given today's focus on popular singles rather than full albums. Sometimes all you really want from your favorite artist is a Christmas recording with three to five classics. Still, there are a good number of larger recordings this year for any listeners desperate for new holiday material. Here are some of the year's new Christian Christmas albums.


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namespace Waf.MusicManager.Presentation.Services;

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