International: European and US centre-left parties call for regulation of investment funds for worker protection

In any case, this transatlantic demand illustrates the increasing concern in society about the practices of investment funds.
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Merkel, who is hosting the G8 meeting on June 6 to 8, for the creation of an “international task force charged with working out recommendations for appropriate regulation of investment funds for protecting workers’ rights”. (Ref. 070496)

The Danish President of the ESP, Poul Rasmussen, had made the disclosure at the congress of the European unions confederation (v. story n°070451). In a June 4 letter to George Bush and Angela Merkel, the European MP’s and their American colleagues requested the

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