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Art and intellect at the heart of Switzerland's Basel
; ...in a ecumenical council that would last...of intellect The council catapulted Basel from a city of commerce...Habicht. After the council ended, many scholars simply stayed on in Basel to form the university...clerics during the council drew even more scholars...Rotterdam, who came to ...
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Western Europe: Capital Requirements Directive - Spreading The Word - Fifteen Months After The Basel II Framework Was Published, The European Commission Has Turned It Into A New Law - The Capital Requirements Directive. Michael Imeson Reports On The Trans.
; ...CRD), which transposes the Basel II capital accord into EU...was rubber-stamped by the Council of Ministers. The next challenge...national laws in time to meet Basel II's global deadlines. The...banks will have to meet the Basel requirements, leaving the...domestic US banks for whom Basel ...
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WOCCU Says BASEL Accord Can Go Further.
; The World Council of Credit Unions, Inc. (WOCCU) said that the recently released Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy (Basel II) needs to go further to level...measuring operational risk, we believe Basel II needs to go further to ensure...
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Basel ticks on the tame side. (Basel Watch, Clock and Jewelry Fair, Basel, Switzerland)
; BASEL, Switzerland -- Watch resources played it safe -- in trends if not in prices -- at this week's Basel Watch, Clock and Jewelry Fair. Styles were reserved, reflecting...the opening of its latest plant. A social highlight of the Basel fair was a champagne reception at the Kunst Museum, where...to benefit ...
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Basel, Boring? Not on your life. This city is a Swiss mix of architecture, art and eateries.
; ...established the colony of Augusta Raurica about six miles east of Basel; August, as it is called today, is now one of the finest...founding, a military bastion was established on what is now Basel's Munsterhugel (Minster Hill). That was the beginning of Basel proper. After Christianity was adopted in the ...
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EC to ratify Basel Convention
; The European Community (EC) Council of Ministers and Member States are to ratify the Basel Convention on the Transboundary...claimed to be dependent upon the Council adopting the EC Regulation...Convention in January 1991. The Council adopted the Regulation on...Parliament (EP) to stop the ...
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Hong Kong jewelry association and Basel Show patch things up.(Facets)
; The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and MCH Basel Exhibition Ltd, the organizer...currently being renovated in Basel. Called Hall 6 or the Hall of...to return all the exhibitors to Basel in 2004. Referring to the incident...
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EC unable to sign Basel Convention. (Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal)
; ...confusion next month as the Basel convention on waste shipments...Twelve had hoped to ratify the Basel convention after incorporating...postponed until the Environment Council's next meeting on 26 May, some three weeks after the Basel convention comes into force...Parliament has written to the ...
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EU/US : APPLICATION OF BASEL II BANKING RULES TRIGGERS TENSIONS.(Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS))
; ...A debate is raging in the US over how to implement the Basel II international agreement on capital adequacy, with the...being unnecessarily strict. Meanwhile, implementation of Basel II in the EU is proceeding much more smoothly. The tardiness...agreement that was supposed to unify global capital rules. ...
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SWISS TREAT RICH HISTORY, PROXIMITY TO GERMANY AND FRANCE DEFINE BASEL'S APPEAL.(Travel)
; ...such battles actually occurred near Basel. The origins of Basel can be traced back to A.D. 374, when a Roman fort was built...If the ruins pique your interest, be sure to visit the Basel Museum of Ancient Art. It is the only Swiss museum devoted...Etruscan and Roman works, mostly from around 1000 B.C. ...
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