Search results

In any state at all regulated, by accepting a term of office, a government also undertakes to respect those basic principles on which the legal and social order of the state is founded. So, for example, in Slovenia, the president of the government and ministers, on election to the National Assembly, swear that they will respect the Constitution and the law and that they will behave in accordance with the well‐being of all citizens of Slovenia. With this apparently symbolic statement, a minister binds not only himself but the state administration as a whole.

A unifying theme apparent at this year's Symposium was the need for balance when lifting the veil of bank secrecy: (1) the need to protect civil liberties versus the need to fight crime; (2) the bank's need to balance its role as policeman while furthering its commercial objectives; (3) the necessity of weighing international cooperation against the awareness that individual nations jealously guard their own legislative regime; (4) the dichotomy of technology that serves both to protect and penetrate secrecy; (5) the balance required when investigating crimes.