By David Rumsey Managing Director 3D Global Financial Services  Recent statements by the Minister for Labour and Social Insurance, Antonis Vassiliou, underline why it is a good idea to back up your state and Provident Fund pensions with your own private arrangements. Mr Vassiliou said on October 25 that the only options for ensuring
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Ericsson is introducing the Home 3G Access Point to provide local indoor coverage in homes and small offices providing full HSPA performance. HSPA supports up to 14Mbps in the downlink and 5.8Mbps in the uplink. With the Home 3G Access Point installed, the end-user’s mobile phone or 3G/HSPA enabled PC will switch from the regular
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 Panda Software is launching a new version of its free online solution, Panda ActiveScan, which disinfects and eliminates viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and other threats, but also uses low-level scanning to detect and disinfect rootkits. ActiveScan is a powerful, online antivirus that scans and disinfects all system devices, hard disks, compressed files and email,
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ENISA promoted the first time ever meeting between key actors from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan on the setting up of brand new CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Teams). The event gives evidence to the emerging trend of a new CERT community in the central and eastern parts of Europe
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AL Prohoice Financial Services Pcl (PRO) announced a massive improved in results during the first nine months of the year, which helped shareholders funds back into positive from a net negative situation a year ago. Net after tax attributable to shareholders in the first 9M 06 jumped to CYP 3.169.644 or EUR 5.49 mln from
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The general government deficit – the one that will be used to assess whether Cyprus has met the Maastricht criterion on the budget – was close to zero in the first nine months of 2006, according to the Statistical Service, compared with a Maastricht target of 3%. For the period January-September 2006 total revenue amounted to
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On various days throughout the year the Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus gather on either side of the dividing line to mark a number of solemn anniversaries or celebrations, depending on how each side judges history. But this year’s events have been overshadowed by Turkey’s eagerness to start accession talks to join the European
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The European Commission has set out its vision for the modernisation of the EU framework for investment funds, which provide consumers with access to professionally managed investments on affordable terms and now account for over €5500 billion of assets. The improvements, which are put forward in a White Paper, will simplify the current Directive on
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The Commission Working Document entitled “First progress report on the strategy for the simplification of the regulatory environment” highlights the Commission’s contribution to the common goal shared with European Institutions and Member States to simplify the regulatory environment for EU businesses and citizens. This report evaluates progress made since the launch of the simplification strategy
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The Communication ‘A Strategic Review of Better Regulation in the European Union’ highlights three important elements in relation to assessing the impacts of EU actions – the creation of an Impact Assessment Board (IAB), the ongoing external evaluation of the Commission’s impact assessment system, and a forthcoming action plan to enhance assessments of existing actions
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