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Bloomberg - 2 hours 14 minutes ago
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- China and the U.S. must do more than they’ve pledged to persuade the European Union to raise its own emissions-reduction commitment to help contain global warming, the 27-nation EU said today in Copenhagen.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 2:14 pm ET
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday urged the European Union to help put a halt to Israeli settlement building in Jerusalem, ahead of an EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 12:16 pm ET
Brussels - European Union foreign ministers on Monday unblocked a major trade deal with Serbia 18 months after they first approved it, rewarding the country's effort to track down war-crimes suspects, EU diplomats said. The EU has long wanted to impr...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 9:47 am ET
Brussels - Turkey should open its ports to Cypriot vessels in a bid to make talks over re-unifying the island easier, European Union foreign ministers said Monday. EU member states have frozen Turkey's bid to join the bloc because of its refusal to a...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 8:16 am ET
Brussels - European Union officials' demand for an inflation-busting pay rise of 3.7 per cent has ignited a bitter row with the bloc's crisis-hit member states ahead of a key meeting on Tuesday, officials in Brussels said. Diplomats from EU capitals ...
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 44 minutes ago
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union signalled it may back away from its proposal to reduce greenhouse gases by 30 percent in the bloc, the biggest group of industrialized countries negotiating at United Nations climate talks.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- China and the U.S. must do more than they’ve pledged to help contain global warming and persuade the European Union to raise its emissions-reduction commitment, Sweden’s environment minister said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 12:17 am ET
Berlin - After a strained process that involved three failed referenda and accusations of ignoring the democratic process, the European Union's Lisbon Treaty went into effect in December with the goal of giving citizens a more direct say in EU busine...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 12:17 am ET
Madrid - When Spain takes over the rotating European Union presidency on January 1, it will have to deal with a new EU. After the entry into force of the EU's Lisbon Treaty on December 1, Europe will have a more united and solid voice on the interna...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 12:17 am ET
London- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was over the moon when Catherine Ashton, his long-time political ally, was chosen for the new job of the European Union's (EU) foreign policy supremo by heads of states in late November. The move, he said, ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 11:00 pm ET
The trade in counterfeit medicines in the European Union has exceeded the body's worst fears, the European industry commissioner said on Monday.
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Nasdaq - 2 hours 41 minutes ago
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- A proposal by the European Commission to tighten regulation of hedge funds and private equity firms could cost the European Union 0.1-0.2% in annual economic growth, according to a study commissioned by the European Parliament.
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Nasdaq - Mon Dec 7, 12:17 pm ET
COPENHAGEN -(Dow Jones)- International commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions to fight global warming are still too low to prompt the European Union to raise to 30% its 2020 target for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, Sweden's Environment Minister said Monday.
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Nasdaq - Mon Dec 7, 11:32 am ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union countries aren't uniformly following a global agreement on bankers' bonuses, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said Monday.
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INO News - 31 minutes ago
(RTTNews) - European Union Foreign ministers agreed at a two-day meeting that began in Brussels on Monday to unblock a trade deal with Serbia, eighteen months after they first approved the blockade of the Interim Trade Agreement at the insistence of Netherlands.