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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) INDEX - No Discussions; No Stock Info

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (13)6/28/1998 6:22:00 AM
From: John Mansfield   of 45
 
[INDEX-EUROPE] - Index to Y2K issues in Europe...

...that I found interesting. Will be filled the coming months.

Contents

- EC
- Y2K and Euro dollar
- UK
- France
- Germany
- Smaller countries
- Scandinavia
- Southern Europe
- Eastern Europe

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EC

Y2k top priority for the EU
ue.eu.int

[EU] 'EU experts trade ideas on millennium bug
Message 4390932
5/1998

EC: New workshop 30 March 1998
ispo.cec.be

Europe: Millennium Bug On Agenda Of G8 Summit
exchange2000.com
rferl.org
Y2K-EC - Look who is missing?
exchange2000.com

Y2K-EC - More details on Y2K in EC countries - and the answer to the quiz!! ;-)
exchange2000.com

EC
CORDIS: European Community research and Development Information Service
exchange2000.com

European partners wake up to the date change challenge
exchange2000.com

More information on EC projects start to appear:
cordis.lu
Go to: Background document: The Year 2000 Computer Problem, European Commission, Directorate General III - Industry, September 1997, draft 0.3
Summary at:
exchange2000.com
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Y2K and Euro dollar

'...businesses "should delay as long as they can"'
'BUSINESS MONITOR: Softly, softly approach urged on euro
Message 3662178

'US companies will come around to euro conversion only at the last minute'
'THE EURO STOPS HERE
exchange2000.com
4/3/1998

LONDON--Britain's banks will not be able to prepare for a switch to a single
European currency at the same time as they work to prevent a rash of
damaging computer crashes on January 1, 2000, the British Bankers'
Association said.
news.com
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UK

[BLAIR] VERY INTERESTING!! 'Speech by the Prime Minister the RT Hon Tony Blair MP
'But Government is about leadership and we can help in three ways'
Message 4445393

Tony Blair plans to hammer home a message that the 15 EU governments need to take urgent action
exchange2000.com

Y2K-EC : Continental Europeans mumbling: 'Those bloody Brits keep nagging us about this stupid computer thing. Will they never stop?'
cordis.lu
exchange2000.com

'Blair takes charge of date bug
computerweekly.co.uk

'UK to drag lagging Europe towards date compliance
exchange2000.com
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France

France
French Y2K site
exchange2000.com

French site on Y2k
The are very few Y2k web sites in France. Here one surfaces!
John
mygale.org

French Y2k site

Message 4630535
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Germany

IT aspects of EMU in Germany (not!) on TV discussion
'Because of the 155 German Professors who wrote a letter to the FAZ and the Financial Times asking for postponement of the Euro, two serious German TV discussion programs dealt with this theme on Sunday (15th Feb) Presse Club (ARD - repeated later on Deutschewelle) with 5 journalists 2D, I, GB and F) spent 45 minutes on this theme without once mentioning IT'
exchange2000.com

'. In fact, Germany is seriously lagging behind in Y2K preparations'
Message 3675615

Pessimist views from Germany...
Message 3662526

'Least prepared is Germany...'
techweb.com
'Computers Not Ready For Euro Rollout

Germany: Bundesministerium fr Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, 1997
exchange2000.com
exchange2000.com

German 'Sage KHK': 'Only 8 % of interviewed companies have taken any serious steps.'
exchange2000.com
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Smaller countries

Sighting: Unisys Belgium "20 percent will go bankrupt"
exchange2000.com

Switserland
Swiss Y2K government strategy
exchange2000.com

Swiss site
ie.iwi.unibe.ch
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Scandinavia

Y2K-SWEDEN This is really sensible! GOOD READING!
exchange2000.com

Y2K EXPENDITURE SHIFT - Sweden: "Stop the parliament for one year!"
exchange2000.com
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Southern Europe

Spanish parlament Y2K efforts
exchange2000.com
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Eastern Europe

??

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ROW Rest of the World

The Year 2000 Problem (Y2K) and Developing Countries
Questionnaire sent by the UK government agency to developing nations.
Message 4563022
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