Saturday 18 February 2012

Welsh Assembly

The English translations of Welsh word:
Senedd:    Parliament        Oriel:   Gallery       Neuadd:    Hall         Siambr:    Chamber


Questions:
1. The Senedd building was opened in 2006.

2.The devolution means that the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power.

3.When I Standing infront of the Sanned I can see amzing building and beautiful seaside in Cardiff Bay.

4.The reception area of the Senedd is called the Neuadd and situated on the first floor.


5.The funnel helps reflect natural light downwards into the Siambr from a glass lantern using a collection of aluminium pipes which cover the inside of the funnel.

6.The headphones are provided to listen to an English translation of Welsh language proceedings.

7.'Plenary meetings' which take place in the Siambr on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons between 13.30 and 18.00.


8.The first purposes of the glass walls is reduce the building's energy consumption. The second reasons of the glass walls is  Welsh goverment policy carried out in a way that is open and transparent.

9.You can buy some souvenirs in the Assembly shop, such as Clogau gold, Melin Tregwynt, Penderyn and books.


Reference:http://www.assemblywales.org/.

Sunday 12 February 2012

The Parliament of UK

The UK parliament is bicameral, with an upper house, the House of Lords, and a lower house, the House of Commons. The Parliament building is the home of the two houses of Parliament - the House of Commons and the House of Lords but is still known as the Palace of Westminster.


The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 by the Acts of Union that replaced the former parliaments of England and Scotland. A further union in 1801 united the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland into a Parliament of the United Kingdom. The meeting every year twice, the first session from the end of march to end early August, the second session from the end of October, end to 12 months before Christmas.



The House of Commons is a democratically elected chamber with elections to it held at least every five years. The men and women who form the House of commons are called Members of Parliament(MPs).The legislation in the house of Commons is mainly functions: put forward some important bill; First the discussion, and through the law; Questions; Finance bill put forward by the house of Commons and through only.



Members of the House of lords is not elected by a royal descendant of the hereditary aristocracy , aristocratic family the right of nobles , life peers , Scottish nobility , the nobility of Ireland , the outgoing Prime Minister . As the Queen may temporarily increase the knighted Members death without addition of the House of Lords the number of members uncertain .



David William Donald Cameron, October 9, 1966-was born in Britain's a noble family, have pure royal descent, is conservative political star, 2001 to become the house of lords, 2005 in only 39 as conservative leader, 11 May 2010, has been British 53 became prime minister, is also Britain since 1812 the youngest prime minister.

Liberal Democratic Party leader(Nick Clegg) as deputy prime minister, mainly responsible for constitutional reforms.



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Sunday 5 February 2012

The economic crisis in the eurozone

Nowadays European Union's economic crisis is a very major problem in the world. This article I will talk about the European Union's economic crisis and each national solution simply. In the article, I will discuss some of the measures of eurozone.

Germany, the EU's biggest economy, is heavily dependent on foreign spending. In the economic crisis in the eurozone, in economic policy objective selection, the German government's way is: price stability and high employment first in economic growth; Long-term and sustainable growth of short-term growth in priority, quality priorities in the growth of the volume growth. In the government task of greatly increased, pay attention to keep the government's fiscal balance.

Economic integration to European countries deal with the financial crisis of the basic policy combination convergence, include: nationalization, interest rate cuts and regulatory rules change. Lower bank interest rate is the most European countries use financial policy to stabilize macroscopical economy for common policy tool, the reducing the interest rate policy behind it is global economy moves deep-seated change.
The United Kingdom in November 6, 2008, the Bank of England cut its benchmark interest rate by 150 basis points , from 4.5% of the level of interest rates to 3% , which is the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee since the policy of independence in 1997 , the most significant interest rate cut , but also far beyond the market had widely expected to cut interest rates by 50 basis points.