General Information about the Lisbon Treaty

The Lisbon Treaty

The Treaty signed by the Heads of State or Government of the 27 Member States in Lisbon on 13 December 2007 will provide the EU with modern institutions and optimised working methods to tackle both efficiently and effectively today's challenges in today's world. In a rapidly changing world, Europeans look to the EU to address issues such as globalisation, climatic and demographic changes, security and energy. The Treaty of Lisbon will reinforce democracy in the EU and its capacity to promote the interests of its citizens on a day-to-day basis.

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Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothe Merkel, born in 17th of July 1954. She is born with the name Angela Dorothea Kasner. Her father was a professor and Lutheran pastor. In 1954, her father got in charge of a church in east and the whole family moved to Templin, (Brandenburg). Angela grew up 80 kilometer north of Berlin, in the Democratic Republic of Germany (DDR). She was educated in Templin and went to University in Leipzig, where she studied physics. After studying and working in the Central chemistry and physics academy of science she received a PhD in physics.
Ten years later (2000) she got in the CDU and since 2005 she is our chancellor, in Germany!
She got her name “Merkel” from his ex husband Ulrich. Later she married to Joachim Sauer. She doesn’t have any children.

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United States shares internet control.

The United States is going to share the control over the Internet
The U.S. government has relaxed its control of Internet management.
Washington has signed a "declaration of commitment" by which, for the first time, gives autonomy to the regulator, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, for its acronym in English).
Until now ICANN operated by an agreement which granted the ability to monitor their activities to U.S. Commerce Department, which had drawn criticism from other countries.
The new agreement will move the ICANN to be controlled by independent groups, including representatives from governments around the world.
The agreement comes into force on October, when they reach 40 years since two computers were interconnected with the first prototype of the Internet.
The European Commission (EC), which was criticized in the past the ties between ICANN and the U.S. government, has welcomed the news.
"Internet users can expect the decisions of ICANN are now much more independent and responsible, and take into account the interests of everybody," said European Commissioner for Information Society Viviane Reding.




Taken from: Jonathan Fildes BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ciencia_tecnologia/2009/09/090930_1854_internet_eeuu_jg.shtml

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