Translation of "Service de recherche du Congrès américain " (French → English) :

A U.S. Congressional Research Service report added that “Canada's financial system in particular is garnering attention, because it seemed to be more resistant to the failures and bailouts that have marked banks in the United States and Europe”.

To this end, the rapporteur went on a fact-finding mission to Washington D.C. and New York City to meet representatives of the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Inspector-General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USAID’s office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, the United States Department of State, the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Research Service, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

the role to be played by airlines, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) or private organisations (such as the SITA and AMADEUS) in transferring passengers' data and the means envisaged (APIS, PNR, etc.) for public-security purposes,

29. Calls for the enhancement of the Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue via a bi-annual policy review of transatlantic financial services matters between the European Parliament, the Commission, the relevant US authorities, and the economic committees of the US Congress, to take place before and after every annual EU-US summit; commends the work done so far by industry members such as the Futures and Options Association;

A. whereas, for several months, press articles, eye-witness accounts and a report by the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) have given affirmation that the CIA reportedly uses ‘secret detention centres’ outside American territory, in particular in Europe, and uses European airfields as staging posts for the transfer of people arrested in the context of the ‘war on terror’; whereas the prisoners reportedly have no rights in these centres, do not have access to a lawyer and are badly treated and probably tortured,

15. Calls on the competent bodies within the European Parliament, the national parliaments of the Member States and the American Congress to make the most of their various channels of communication and opportunities for meeting to encourage the prevention of Euro-American crises, notably by explaining to American Congressmen and Senators that the same political objectives (e.g. the fight against State terrorism or the defence of human rights) can be pursued by different and equally legitimate means (a hard policy of sanctions or a policy of cooperation compelling the target t ...[+++]o behave more transparently);