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Paris Embassy Announces Change to the Golden Arrow Program

By Fauzia N. Amlani | Associate | 4049460852 |fauzia.amlaniogletree.com | Ogletree Deakins The U.S. Embassy in Paris has announced a minor change to its Golden Arrow program, affecting French-owned companies that are incorporated in the United States. Effective immediately, French E visa applicants under the Golden Arrow program will be required to submit all three parts of Form DS-156E. Previously, E visa applicants under this program were only required to submit Part III of Form DS-156E. Qualified French employers may apply for...

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World premier: Revinax introduces Mixed Reality (HoloLens) during a live open surgery

By Revinax Revinax combines medical expertise and technical creativity to create cutting-edge training tools for surgeons and marketing and training solutions for various companies.   We are very honoured to share the following news with you: Montpellier - November 9th, 2017. The Revinax team has achieved a worldwide breakthrough by introducing mixed reality during live surgery. The surgical procedure was performed successfully on November 7th, 2017 under the guidance of Dr Lonjon, a neurosurgeon from the Montpellier University Hospital in...

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New York City Expands Types of Leave Covered by Paid Sick Leave Law

By Jill Lowell and Sebastian Chilco | Littler Mendelson P.C Slightly one year after the New York City Council introduced a bill that would expand the city's paid sick leave requirements to cover "safe time" leave, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed it into law on November 6, 2017. The law, Int. 1313-A, expands the list of covered reasons for which paid sick leave can be used to include “when the employee or a family member has been the victim of...

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The Case for a WTO Climate Waiver

By James Bacchus |  Centre for International Governance Innovation | Chair, Global Practice at Greenberg Traurig Executive Summary There is a looming collision between the rules frameworks of the two separate international institutions that have been created and entrusted with addressing trade and climate change. Links between trade and climate change can no longer be ignored by either the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Neither of...

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CMBS Market Week in Review: November 6th – November 10th

By Trepp, LLC Due to the recent strength of the cash markets, CMBS trading desks posted heavy activity in the past week with bid list volume topping $800 million between Monday and Thursday. Overall, the cash sector continued to see modest spread tightening, decent two-way trading, as well as strong representation from SASB and conduit paper. Tight AAA pricing on new issues and concerns over future supply wind-down enabled cash spreads to grind tighter by an additional five to...

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Estonia EU Presidency: EU must strengthen strategic communication capability

At today’s Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting in Brussels, the foreign ministers discussed ways of strengthening the EU’s strategic communication, and Foreign Minister Sven Mikser stressed the need for ensuring permanent funding to the European External Action Service’s strategic communication task forces. “In today’s world, we should not underestimate the importance of strategic communication, and I am glad that we are finally discussing the topic on the ministerial level as well,” said Minister Mikser, adding that strategic communication served the EU’s...

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Cecilia Malmström: Reviewing our Trade Agreements

The numbers are clear - exports from Moldova to the EU are so far up by over 15%, and much more in several sectors. For juices and conserved fruits, for instance, Moldovan exports to the EU have grown by 25%. Wine exports have nearly doubled. As part of my trip, I visited the successful company Monicol, just outside the capital of Chisinau - a truly impressive facility. The company ships thousands of tonnes of dried fruit and nuts to the EU,...

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Responsible paper policy: Essilor ranked 4th in France

By Essilor Essilor has recently been ranked 4th of the 50 biggest paper consuming companies in France for its environmentally-responsible paper policy. The PAP50 survey, conducted by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF France) and Riposte Verte (a French non-profit organization promoting eco-responsibility in business) evaluates consumption of paper and cardboard, the use of environmentally-friendly paper and cardboard, sorting and selective collection of paper and cardboard as well as company commitments to improve. Since the previous PAP50 survey in 2013, Essilor has...

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Vulcan Consulting View: Key Events of the Week

By Vulcan Consulting BREXIT EU lands UK with fresh demands over Brexit bill and Northern Ireland As EU and British negotiators met yesterday to begin the sixth round of Brexit discussions, Brussels has hit Britain with renewed demands. It has given London until the end of the month to make a substantial financial offer, warning that the bloc may not be able to adopt guidelines at a crucial December meeting of EU leaders required to move on to...

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Nothing Natural About the Natural Rate of Unemployment, by Edmund Phelps

NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT* *A slightly altered version under the same title appeared in Project Syndicate, November 2, 2017. By Edmund Phelps | Center on Capitalism and Society,  Columbia University | Working Paper #96 | November 2017 Why is unemployment so low in several countries where inflation remains subdued? This phenomenon is a challenge to present-day economics. I was one of the rebels of the ‘60s who rejected the macroeconomics we were taught in the ‘50s – the “Keynesian”...

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