Why EU promotion is at odds with successful crisis management: public relations, news coverage, and the Aceh Monitoring Mission. EU Centre in Singapore Working Paper No. 10, September 2012

The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and its accompanying Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions can be tools used to increase the international profile of the European Union. Nevertheless, CSDP missions garner little news coverage. This article argues that the very nature of the missions themselves makes them poor vehicles for EU promotion for political, institutional, and logistical reasons. By definition, they are conducted in the middle of crises, making news coverage politically sensitive. The very act of reporting could undermine the mission. Institutionally, all CSDP missions are intergovernmental, making press statements slow, overly bureaucratic, and of little interest to journalists. Logistically, the missions are often located in remote, undeveloped parts of the world, making it difficult and expensive for European and international journalists to cover. Moreover, these regions in crisis seldom have a thriving, local free press. Using the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) as a case study, the author concludes that although a mission may do good, CSDP missions cannot fulfil the political function of raising the profile of the EU.

The Asset Quality Review and Capital Needs: Why re-capitalise banks with public money? CEPS Policy Brief No. 311, 19 December 2013

It is generally assumed that any capital needs discovered by the Asset Quality Review the ECB is scheduled to finish by the end of 2014 should be filled by public funding (= fiscal backstop). This assumption is wrong, however. Banks that do not have enough capital should be asked to obtain it from the market; or be restructured using the procedures and rules recently agreed. The Directorate-General for Competition at the European Commission should be particularly vigilant to ensure that no further state aid flows to an already oversized European banking system. The case for a public backstop was strong when the entire euro area banking system was under stress, but this is no longer the case. Banks with a viable business model can find capital; those without should be closed because any public-sector re-capitalisation would likely mean throwing good money after bad.

1977 census of governments : volume 3, public employment : number 3, labor-management relations in State and local governments, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

Mode of access: Internet.

A compilation of the laws of Illinois, relating to township organization and management of county affairs : with numerous forms and notes of instruction, supported by adjudicated cases, opinions of the attorney general and rulings of the auditor of public accounts, with an appendix /

Includes index.

Migratory labor. : Hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor and Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on labor and Public Welfare.

Mode of access: Internet.

Taft-Hartley act revisions : hearings before the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, first session, on proposed revisions of the Labor-management relations act of 1947.

Hearings held March 24-April 30, 1953.

Lessons learned in the D.C. public schools : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, March 9, 1998.

Shipping list no.: 98-0336-P.

The U.S. General Services Administration's fiscal year 2003 Capital Investment Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, June 5, 2002.

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