Countries are discussing the monitoring and evaluation framework that will assess the success and steer the activities of the ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’. Although high vaccine prices pose a considerable threat to the sustainability of vaccine programmes, the framework does not include any measures to monitor prices at all.
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A directly elected European Commission president, more powerful foreign affairs chief, and new rules making it easier to adopt treaty changes are among the radical ideas put forward by 11 European Union foreign ministers.
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This comes the day after France said that it would recognize any rebel lead government. The blueprint (pdf) is telling for what it is NOT saying, there are only vague outlines of a future constitution and not a word about the rumored massive privatization of state held Syrian capital.
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What it comes down to is that Germany has to give in and save Europe. Since the IMF is only interested in protecting the hegemony of the US dollar there is probably another agenda being played out here.
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Visa has filed several patent applications that provide a blueprint for using credit-card transaction data to target digital ads and personalize other content, such as search results.
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