What with the Independent Banking Commission (which came up with the basic proposals) and the Parliamentary Commission on Banking led by Andrew Tyrie (which debated the first draftof the bill last autumn), this is not apieceof legislation that has been under-discussed.
The decree transformed a farce into yet another example of Mr Berlusconi's contempt for the rule of law, ofapiece with a new draft law to allow ministers to delay criminal trials against them.
Of these, the most immediate is the fact that the sorts of problems inherent in this Treaty are ofapiece with those it is currently confronting in the draft Outcome Document for the UN General Assembly meeting next month.
Mr. Adolphe had shown adraftof his composition to a Juilliard instructor, who informed him that the piece featured a chord that was impossible to play.
"We very much hope that the draftpieceof legislation is to be withdrawn, " German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a NATO summit on Afghanistan over the weekend.
The draft proposal, presented by the Commission in September 2010, aims to strengthen and merge existing directives into a single pieceof legislation known as the single European railway area.