[ga] Re: [A2k] EU : new Consumer protection Commissioner

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michelle and all,

  Good to hear.  I hope she will be able to properly educate
Veni Markovski, a recent ICANN Bod member of how very
important consumer protection is.  A recent ICANN Bod decision
which was unanimous regarding huge price hike and control of
pricing on domain name registration in the .biz/.info/.org
registry agreement has and will damaged many registrant/consumer,
and will for years in the future unless this decision can be 
reversed.

Michelle Childs wrote:

> <snip>Ms Kuneva ? who as Europe minister guided Bulgaria into the EU ? has
> seen less questions raised about her future responsibilities. She will be
> the EU commissioner for consumer protection ? a portfolio taken from
> commissioner Markos Kyprianou who will now focus only on health in the EU.
>
> Ms Kuneva has said she supports harmonisation of consumer protection
> standards and has pledged she will also focus on areas where consumer
> protection faces great challenges, such as in electronic communications.
>
> http://euobserver.com/9/23081/?rk=1
> European Parliament approves new EU commissioners
> 12.12.2006 - 13:39 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
>
> EUOBSERVER / STRASBOURG ? The European Parliament has with an overwhelming
> majority given its final seal of approval to the EU's two newest
> commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania in the last official hurdle before
> they join their 25 colleagues in Brussels in three weeks time.
>
> Meglena Kuneva from Bulgaria received 583 votes (plus 21 against and 28
> abstentions) while her Romanian colleague Leonard Orban pulled in 595
> votes (plus 16 against and 29 abstentions) on Tuesday (12 December)
>
> Some MEPs did, however, still question Mr Orban's portfolio as the EU
> commissioner for multilingualism saying his job tasks "are not clear."
>
> The post has been carved out of the portfolio of EU culture and education
> commissioner Jan Figel.
>
> Mr Orban will be responsible for three directorate-generals in the
> commission: translation, interpretation and the office for official
> publications of the European communities and will oversee around 3,400
> civil servants.
>
> He has said he supported the ongoing commission "mother tongue + 2"
> initiative to increase EU citizens' language abilities and has spoken in
> favour of subtitling movies instead of dubbing them, which will expose
> viewers to other languages.
>
> However, Mr Orban cannot force member states to take action on
> multilingualism, as education and intercultural issues ? areas important
> for his portfolio ? are essentially under national control.
>
> >From 2007, the European bloc will have a total of 23 official languages
> adding to the already-existing tensions between administrative efficiency
> and the right of citizens to linguistic diversity.
>
> Ms Kuneva ? who as Europe minister guided Bulgaria into the EU ? has seen
> less questions raised about her future responsibilities. She will be the
> EU commissioner for consumer protection ? a portfolio taken from
> commissioner Markos Kyprianou who will now focus only on health in the EU.
>
> Ms Kuneva has said she supports harmonisation of consumer protection
> standards and has pledged she will also focus on areas where consumer
> protection faces great challenges, such as in electronic communications.
>
> Both commissioners will be received in the commission at a welcoming event
> in Brussels on 4 January 2007.
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