Such serious abuses of power over a period of decades, along with the effective proscription of dissenting opinion, expression, association or assembly, have acted to render Iraqis essentially compliant.

Three further amending proposals sought to alleviate public concerns about the proposed proscription mechanism, the emergency investigative powers of the Police, and the absence of a public interest' defence for the offence of unlawful disclosure.

It is an impressive list national responsibility for bank rescues the sanctity of the EU treaty s proscription of bailouts for governments rejection of European economic governance the ban on direct government financing by the European Central Bank refusal to support mutual liability for debt and, finally, the transformation of the ECB from a copy of the old Bundesbank into a European Federal Reserve Bank based on the Anglo Saxon model.