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30.06.2004 Canada's first minority government in 25 years will have to act on environmental and sustainable development priorities if it hopes to build bridges with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois. To start, that could mean less lip service and more action on Canada's Kyoto Protocol obligations.

30.06.2004 In this week's Canadian federal election, voter turnout dropped to a record low 60.5 per cent. According to Democracy Watch, turnout likely won't rebound until parties and politicians tackle the job of re-engaging voters by democratizing government.

30.06.2004 Si le gouvernement libéral entend faire mieux, comme le promettait le premier ministre Paul Martin, il devra agir rapidement pour éviter une grave perturbation des services publics fédéraux. L’Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada (AFPC) demande au nouveau gouvernement d’intervenir rapidement pour empêcher la grève générale des travailleurs et travailleuses du secteur public fédéral, grève qui se dessine pour la fin de l’été.

30.06.2004 Across Canada, public workers say they are facing growing pressure from employers to give up collective agreement rights. In response, the Canadian Union of Public Employees has adopted a "special plan" to fight concessions and defend free collective bargaining.

30.06.2004 Dopo un anno e mezzo la Serbia ha un nuovo presidente: l'europeista e filo-occidentale Boris Tadic ha sconfitto nel ballottaggio di ieri il rivale ultranazionalista e nostalgico Tomislav Nikolic, ridando vigore alla marcia di avvicinamento del paese verso le istituzioni del vecchio continente e scongiurando il pericolo di un nuovo isolamento di Belgrado.

30.06.2004 "New Brunswick citizens are experiencing trade treaty 'chill' first-hand." So say the authors of a study released just as the Lord government rejected legislative committee recommendations to adopt public auto insurance. Today's study concludes that New Brunswick should have adopted the public system - despite threats from the foreign insurance industry to sue under international trade treaties.

29.06.2004 Nedavnom ocjenom Ustavnog suda Crne Gore kojom je utvrdjena kao neustavna odredba Zakona o penzijskom i invalidskom osiguranju kojom po automatizmu u upravni odbor Fonda PIO ulaze Ministar rada i socijalnog stranja Slavoljub Stijepovic i Ministra finansija Igor Luksic, namece se zakljucak da je i Zakon o sprecvanju konfikta interesa, obzirom da omogucava imenovanja javnih funkcionera u upravne odbore, neustavan. Ovdje se postavlja pitanje da li ce angazmani i ostalih javnih funkcionera biti predmet razmatranja Ustavnog Suda.

29.06.2004 Le Québec aura donc résisté. Alors que les deux grands réseaux de télévision francophones prédisaient autour de 22h un gouvernement libéral — minoritaire, précisait Bernard Derome —, les Québécois ont donné 54 sièges au Bloc québécois, lui accordant 50 % des suffrages. Le Bloc rejoint ainsi les 54 sièges obtenus sous Lucien Bouchard en 1993, exploit qui n’avait pas été réédité depuis.

28.06.2004 In yesterdayÂ’s second round of the 2004 Presidential Election, Boris Tadic, candidate of the reformist Democratic Party, was elected for the Office of the President of Serbia. Tadic won with 53.7% of the votes (1,706,888 votes), while his opponent Tomislav Nikolic, from the Serb Radical Party won 1,431,833 votes, or 45% of the votes. These were the estimated results released by the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID).

28.06.2004 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has put together various experiments on Community Policing and Outreach Programmes in different states of India.

25.06.2004 Canada votes on Monday, June 28. This federal election campaign, several OneWorld partner surveyed or graded political parties on their election platforms. The results are in.

24.06.2004 Plus de cinquante millions de citoyens américains, soit un quart du corps électoral, vont utiliser des machines électroniques pour voter lors de l'élection présidentielle de 2004. 80% de ces machines ont été achetées par les différents Etats américains à deux sociétés, Diebold et ES&S (Election Systems and Softwrare) qui sont connues pour leurs liens étroits et incestueux avec le clan républicain. 80 % de ces machines ne produiront pas de reçu papier pour les votes effectués.

24.06.2004 Le 30 juin prochain, des actions auront lieu dans plusieurs villes pour protester contre un "transfert de souveraineté" factice à un petit groupe d’Irakiens non élus et au maintien de troupes d’occupation. À Montréal, rendez-vous le 30 juin à 16:30 devant le consulat des États-Unis : Intersection René-Lévesque et St-Alexandre.

24.06.2004 OTTAWA – Les chefs des grands partis politiques canadiens devront dire franchement à l'électorat quels programmes et services fédéraux ils ont l'intention de couper pour faire place aux nouvelles dépenses qu'ils proposent.

24.06.2004 Accountability, rights issues and health care have dominated this Canadian election campaign. Economic issues, meanwhile, have somehow slipped off the stage. That's too bad, says economist Marc Lee, because the contenders have very different visions of what makes good economic policy.

23.06.2004 In the recent interview he have to radio Antena M, Prime Minister Djukanovic said that there is no conflict of interests in the case of Veselin Vukotic and added that Vukotic is not responsible for the implementation of one third of economic reforms in Montenegro.

23.06.2004 U dokumentu “Godinu dana implementacije Agende ekonomskih reformi”, koji je sacinila Vlada Republike Crne Gore u martu 2004. godine pise da je gospodin Vukotic koordinator aktivnosti u oblastima: poslovno okruzenje, trgovina i ekonomske slobode, makroekonomija i statistika, dok je oblast privatizacije i postprivatizacije koordinira Savjet za privatizaciju, ciji potpredsjednik je ponovo gospodin Vukotic. U dokumentu “Agenda ekonomskih reformi” precizno su definisane aktivnosti u ovim oblastima.

22.06.2004 The Council of Canadians is condemning Quebec Environment Minister Thomas Mulcair's proposal to explore bulk exports of water from the province. The Council says that move would "open the floodgates to water exports" - compelling the rest of Canada to follow suit under rules of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

22.06.2004 Families making more than $150,000 are the big winners in the Conservative Party's proposed tax reforms. Meanwhile, NDP tax proposals favour families with incomes below $60,000. Those are two of the conclusions of a new analysis of Canadian election platforms from economists Sheila Block and Ellen Russell.

22.06.2004 Protests against Pakistan's acquisition of vast tracts of land for mega military projects in its western Balochistan province are snowballing, with armed tribesmen blowing up an airport in the gas-rich region of Sui last week, and local nationalist parties threatening political action on August 1.