Brazil's cardinal, considered a strong contender for pope, harshly criticizes pro-market reforms and the globalization of the economy and urges solidarity with workers in a new book rushed into publication after the death John Paul II.
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Britain's commitment to Gibraltar unchanged; Spain presses for nuclear sub reassurance; MPs urge Hoon to halt Mod reorganization.
Unless conservation measures can be extended to the high seas there's always a risk that actions taken in the EEZs are undermined, said Falkland Islands Fisheries Department Director John Barton following the Islands decision to close the Illex squid season as of Wednesday 08:00 hours.
Chile's Foreign Affairs Minister Ignacio Walker said Tuesday that two countries committed to vote for Chilean candidate Jose Miguel Insulza as the next Secretary General of the Organization of American States switched their support to Mexican Luis Ernesto Derbez.
If Chilean-Bolivian litigation can be solved, the region could rapidly achieve an energy equation putting an end to all supply problems, said Argentine president Nestor Kirchner currently in a state visit to Germany.
Surging oil prices plus the world economy's growing misbalances have put a break on growth expectations for many countries, indicates the IMF World Economic Outlook, although it insists in an overall 4,3% expansion forecast for 2005.
Economic prospects for several Mercosur country members, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay in 2005 and 2006 are the best of the Latinamerica and Caribbean region, according to the latest International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook.
The European Parliament cleared the way for Romania and Bulgaria to join the European Union January 2007, although the debate was not extent of controversy.
Argentina's Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Bielsa denied Wednesday that his country was thinking in a unilateral rupture with the IMF if an agreement on the refinancing of sovereign debt is not reached and further ratified that there will no new offer to private creditors who didn't join the recent debt swap.
Majority and moderate groupings in Brazil's ruling Workers Party, PT, agreed on a radical platform turn that will give priority to balanced budgets and sustainable economic growth instead of the original rupture with the current neo-liberal economic model with which Lula da Silva, a former firebrand union leader, was elected president in 2002.