La presidenta de Brasil, recibio en Brasilia, a las autoridades de la Union Europea (UE) que intervinieron en la VI cumbre de la Asociacion de ese bloque de Naciones y el Mercosur. En la recepcion, realizada en el Palacio del Planalto, estuvieron presentes Herman Van Rompuy, presidente del consejo europeo, Jose Manuel Durao Raposo, presidente de la comision europea y Karel de Gucht comisario europeo del comercio.Entre los temas de mayor trascendencia tratados en el encuentro anual que se efectua entre las dos regiones, estan el analisis de la situacion economica y financiera internacional; el proceso de los temas del G-20 y el avance de las negociaciones para un acuerdo de Asociacion de la UE con el Mercosur.Por parte de Brasil quedo claro que este pais tiene interes en buscar herramientas para combatir la crisis e impedir que la adversidad de la coyuntura internacional afecte a la mayor economia latinoamericana.Para la Union Europea, que es el principal socio comercial de Brasil, la idea es aumentar el comercio y las inversiones brasilenas en Europa, las mismas que ya superan los 80 mil millones de dolares.Rony Curvelo, Brasilia IntroductionAfter 23years, the word Impeachment is back in use in the day-to-day vocabulary of theBrazilian people. The most interesting part however is that in 1992 Icriticized the 42 years old law from the 1950, for not been regulated, andtoday 65 years after being approved and 23 years since it was used for the lasttime, it continues with the same vices and defects from day one. So, once againis at the mercy of many interpretations, where each side, conveniently,interpreted the law as they see fit in accordance with their best interest andcause.This process should only be led,debated and decided by the Congress and notby the Judiciary, but because of the inefficacy and lack of interest of theBrazilian Congress in passing regulations for this 65 years old law, which isabout to be used in an Impeachment procedure against President Dilma Rousseff,the legislators in order to avoid their responsibilities, decided to ask thejudiciary to take over the proceedings. In my 2001 book,"Globalization-Public Administration Essays", Chapter 8, I wroteabout the impeachment process in details and I made an analytical comparisonwith Impeachment process applied in United States with the one in Brazil. Atthat time the USA Congress was debating on impeaching President Bill Clinton.In the next few days I write about this important chapter of the law, since aremany things to be said and analyzed Part 1The concept of impeachment arose in the second half of the19th century in Great Britain. It was initially conceived as an instrumentof parliamentary oversight of the executive and was designed to hold thoseexercising political power accountable both individually and for administrativeacts of the State. In England, the house of Commons, the most solemn grandinquest of the whole kingdom, is charged with formulating the accusation, whilethe House of Lords, the highest court of criminal jurisdiction of the Kingdom,sits in judgment.The power of judgment exercised by the House of Lords is notrestricted to political crimes but is also extensive to criminal offenses, thusjustifying the fact that it