New divisions among EU 27 continue regarding the debt crisis and Greece. No progress is being made, No united front regarding banks and the need for recapitalization, No progress on tax on financial transactions, push back to October any decision concerning the payment of an additional € 8 billion to Greece.

The only agreement was to criticize the intervention of U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner. What did the U.S. Secretary of Treasury say? Basically he said three things:

On 23 September, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian State. The U.N. Security Council would be able to recognize such a state but the U.S. has already made it clear that it will veto the move. Russia, China, France and the UK will probably be in favour, but that won't be enough). So it would be up to the General Assembly but the General Assembly would only be able to upgrade Palestine's current status of observer to that of a non-member state. Either way, the EU position on Palestine's bid will be critical.

AALEP has entered into a protocol of cooperation with the Rusian-European Chamber of Commerce (RUSCHAM) whereby AALEP joins RUSCHAM as an Associate Member and RUSCHAM joins AALEP as an Associate Member. It should be pointed out that Associate Membership does not confer any right for either organization to vote at annual meetings but does provide an entitlement to participate in metings,events, projects and programmes.

THE FOULOY'S EXPLANATORY LOBBYING DICTIONARY is an up-dated explanatory reference book on the craft of lobbying and advocacy and represents an expanded version of the Professional Lobbyist's Desk Reference that was originally published in 2001. THE FOULOY'S EXPLANATORY LOBBYING DICTIONARY is a single, one-stop resource not available elsewhere in such a format on the subject.

EUROCHAM-LIBYA (The European Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Libya) is officially being launched to advance the interests of European companies in Libya.

Today, the EU is facing multiple-crises concurrently. On the one hand, there is a financial crisis which severely shakes the very fundamentals of the European Economic and Monetary Union. On the other hand, the EU is encountering domestic and international legitimacy problems. The EU-US relations are at a very unsatisfactory level; the EU-Russian relations are fragmented and polarizing; the EU-China relations are not pleasing even the minimalists, the EU-Turkey relations have plunged into a standstill.

While the debates in Europe are all about budget cutting, bailouts, austerity programmes, rules, sanctions, one doesn't hear much about real reforms aimed at generating gowth. The lack of growth is what got Europe with debt trouble in the first place. Since the inception of the euro, the eurozone has averaged an annual GDP growth rate of 1.5%. In the second quarter of this year, France the second largest economy in the eurozone after Geermany recorded zero growth.

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The lessons here below are extracted from a report prepared by The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2004.

The TNC needs to create an optimal reconstruction effort, one that will delineate precisely the policies, laws, institutions, practices and individuals that will determine the context in which Libya’s economic activity takes place. An important question for the TNC is to organize and structure the reconstruction assistance. Does it have the capabilities and the resources (human, financial, technical) to do so??

As European companies, namely from France, Italy, Britain and Germany are rushing to Libya to get a slice of the reconstruction pie and sign up contracts with the TNC, a new Association under the acronym EUROCHAM-LIBYA (European Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Libya) is currently in the making in order to provide a strong coordinated body for Libyan Pan-European cooperation at the non-governmental level.