Performance measurement was initially introduced in Finland as part of the Performance Management system of the Government agencies and Ministries in the early 1990's. At the time, lot of emphasis was put to the performance of the Government service delivery. In the 2000's the focus has moved more and more...
Former deputy prime minister Mark Vaile has been appointed an independent non-executive director of Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd.Mr Vaile takes up the role on Monday.Mr Vaile retired as MP for Lyne, on the NSW lower north coast, earlier this year after five terms in Federal Parliament.He was leader of...
By Sumeet DesaiUNITED NATIONS (Reuters UK) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged the U.S. Congress on Thursday to approve a $700 billion (377 billion pounds) plan to buy up financial institutions' illiquid assets to get financial markets moving again.U.S. President George W. Bush has already called an emergency meeting with...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet European leaders in Paris this weekend to discuss the financial crisis, but there are no plans to talk about a European bailout, Brown's spokesman said on Thursday."When the Prime Minister spoke to President Sarkozy this morning he confirmed that he...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - The government said on Friday it had always wanted a constructive relationship with Iceland, a day after a row broke out over how to deal with hundreds of millions of pounds of deposits trapped in collapsed Icelandic banks."We've always made it clear we want to work...
This is an exercise to try in private. Try it on your CEO in public and you will certainly get noticed, mainly because you will find security escorting you off the building as fast as you can get your personal possessions into a black bin liner. This...
Not long ago when the Czech Republic Prime Minister, Mr. Topolanek, visited the states, he brought along an engraved and beautifully worked CZ rifle as a gift to the President. Which, by the way, is really a gift to the people of the United States. Being the Texan he is,...
Gov. Sarah Palin cites vigilance against Russian warplanes coming into U.S. airspace over Alaska as one of her foreign policy credentials. But the U.S. military command in charge says that hasn't happened in her 21 months in office. "When you consider even national security issues with Russia,...
MOSCOW -- A Russian billionaire said Tuesday he is teaming up with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to form a new political party that will challenge the country's recent steps away from democracy. Alexander Lebedev, a former lawmaker who has built a fortune in business and investment,...
Treasury under pressure to guarantee all deposits UK banks say Ireland's move is unfair competition Gordon Brown's pledge to raise the amount of savings protected in a banking failure to 50,000 may not be enough to restore confidence in Britain's banks, senior industry executives have...
IT WAS ALL going swimmingly for David Cameron until yesterday's ComRes poll for The Independent cruelly brought home the power of incumbency still enjoyed by Gordon Brown. For several months it was not only the consistent headline poll leads for the Tories that gave them the political...
Days Like These PAUL WOLFOWITZ, the US Deputy Secretary of Defence, addresses the US Northern Military Command: "Let me go back in time, and recall the reaction of England's prime minister following news of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Churchill reacted not with sorrow, but with...
Britain Savers are to be protected from banking failures to a maximum of 50,000, after widespread calls for better guarantees for depositors in Britain's ailing financial system. The Prime Minister confirmed yesterday that new banking legislation to be presented to Parliament would...
THE outgoing Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, has publicly acknowledged for the first time that "almost all" of the territory seized during the Six-Day War in 1967 will have to be given back in return for peace with the Palestinians. In an interview with Israel's biggest-selling...
World in brief HARARE Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans lined up at banks, desperate to withdraw money after the government raised the limit on daily withdrawals. New rules went into effect allowing withdrawals of up to Z$20,000 (19). The old Z$1,000 limit was barely enough to...
2Tory lead drops seven points as polls show faith in Brown to fix the economy The Conservative Party's lead over Labour has dropped from 19 to 12 points, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent which provides clear evidence of a "Brown bounce". ...
On the eve of the TV debates, the New Democrat campaign issued the following statement from Jack Layton: "Canadian families are looking at the financial crisis in the US with worry. They're anxious about their pensions, their homes and jobs. Yesterday, the New Democrats called on the Prime Minister to...
Independent debate OLIVER LETWIN has promised that David Cameron would complete Tony Blair's unfinished legacy by pushing through reforms that Gordon Brown had thwarted while Chancellor. And the party's policy director, speaking to a packed fringe meeting organised by The Independent yesterday, risked a backlash from...
JERUSALEM -- Israel will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a farewell interview published Monday. Olmert, who began talks with the Palestinians and Syria during his soon-to-end...
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister sought safeguards Sunday for small religious communities in this mainly Muslim country as Christians protested parliament's decision to stop setting aside seats for minorities on provincial councils. In Baghdad, a series of explosions struck mostly Shiite areas, killing at least 32 people...
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