Both provinces have deep social-democratic traditions, and labour laws that allow a workplace to be certified as unionised without a vote, as long as a majority of employees sign union cards.
Italian and Spanish bond yields rose Monday, which is a further sign of increasing stress in the European Union.
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But former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who now sits as an MEP, said Britain was trying to have a "Europe a la carte" where it could "pick and choose" which parts of the union to sign up to.
This is a sign of improving investor sentiment toward the European Union and its handling of its sovereign debt crisis.
The African Union is the first good sign of hope for the continent in generations but it has a very huge task ahead which will take many decades.
With the Cold War's passing and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Turkey is surrounded by potential instability and conflict, a situation that shows no sign of change in the foreseeable future.
This is part of ongoing work to sign tax exchange agreements with all European Union and G20 countries.
In particular the Germans, with traditionally the strongest economy and currency in Europe, were loth to sign up to monetary union with Italy, given its tradition of mountainous debts, a weak currency and inflation.
The two leading Senate co-sponsors of campaign finance legislation urged Bush in a letter Friday to promise in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that he would sign campaign finance legislation if it passes Congress this year.
With no sign of a breakthrough between BA bosses and the leaders of the Unite union, Unite has threatened to ballot for more strikes in July.
Shaiken says the union's willingness to make concessions now is a sign of the times.
President Barack Obama urged Congress to pass the legislation in his State of the Union address, and has said he will quickly sign it.
Some seriously opined that her victory, after 28 years of mostly very meagre results, was a sure sign that the European Union was ready to admit Turkey after all.
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The head of the CISL union Raffaele Bonanni said his union was prepared to sign the deal if certain conditions were met.
The market would likely take a Greek default and subsequent exit as a sign that anything is possible in Western Europe, including further erosion of the currency union itself.
"The companies who signed up are to be applauded, " said Jyrki Raina, general secretary for IndustriALL Global Union, which set a deadline of Wednesday for companies to sign the pact.
The measure, misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act, would let a union win automatic recognition simply by cajoling a majority of employees to sign cards.
In a sign of the continuing bitterness, UFT President Michael Mulgrew indirectly accused the city of harassing the union by sending inspectors to its headquarters Friday morning.
So it may be a good sign that, after only a couple of months in his job, Charlie McCreevy, the European Union's commissioner for the internal market, is squabbling with Antonio Fazio, governor of the Bank of Italy.
Foxconn, the contract manufacturer whose biggest customer is Apple, is preparing genuinely representative labour union elections in its factories in China for the first time, a powerful sign of the changes in the workshop of the world demanded by an increasingly restive workforce.
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Jersey has sought to sign tax agreements with every one of the 19 G20 member jurisdictions, the 20th member being the European Union.
New Zealand itself has floated the idea of deals with Hong Kong and with Chile, which is hoping to sign on with the European Union by 2002.
Another good sign, cargo-handling is being transferred to the private sector in a sweeping reform of ports, a union stronghold.
Other European investors snapped up German government short-term debt offered on Monday at a negative return, another sign of the bad economic and financial situation still overhanging the EU. The ugly financial situation in the European Union remains a major bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
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Other European investors snapped up German government short-term debt offered on Monday at a negative return, another sign of the bad economic and financial situation still overhanging the EU. The dour financial situation in the European Union remains a major bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
The Rugby Football Union has already stated they will introduce a new code of conduct that all players have to sign up to as part of their contract if they are included in the 32-man elite squad to be named on 1 July.
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