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TechWorld - Wed Nov 25, 6:30 am ET
Bureaucrats compromise on copyright infringement After two years of often bitter debate, the European Parliament approved a raft of new telecom laws.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Nov 25, 8:11 am ET
Copenhagen - Danish opposition parties Wednesday failed to persuade Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen to call a referendum on some of the country's current opt-outs from the European Union. We should not be too hasty, he said after a meeting with...
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 1:10 pm ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Connie Hedegaard , Denmark’s minister for climate and energy, will become the Nordic country’s new European Union commissioner, Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen’s office said.
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New York Times - Thu Nov 26, 12:50 pm ET
The country's manufacturers are saddled with overcapacity and are offloading excess output into world markets, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said on Thursday.
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PC World - Fri Nov 27, 5:49 pm ET
Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Tue Nov 24, 4:09 pm ET
William Kennard, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has resigned from the board of the New York Times Co. to become the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Kennard, who served as the head of the FCC under President Bill Clinton, was... European Union - Bill Clinton - New York Times - Federal Communications Commission - William Kennard
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San Francisco Chronicle - Tue Nov 24, 3:09 pm ET
U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing... Sun Microsystems - Oracle Corporation - European Union - Oracle - Competition law
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San Francisco Chronicle - Tue Nov 24, 12:56 pm ET
European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees. Broadcom Corp., NEC Corp., Nokia Corp., LM Ericsson, Panasonic... European Union - Mobile phone - Qualcomm - Ericsson - Mobile
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 9:43 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European exports to China, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, fell 5.3 percent in the first half of the year as the euro’s appreciation made the goods from the region less competitive abroad.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 1:09 pm ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Connie Hedegaard , named as the next European Union climate commissioner, will oversee a possible EU decision to force energy and manufacturing companies in the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas market to deepen emission cuts.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 8:09 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jose Barroso picked Spain’s Joaquin Almunia to be the European Union’s antitrust chief and France’s Michel Barnier to lead a push for tougher bank regulation as part of a new team that will manage the EU’s $15 trillion economy as it emerges from recession.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 6:13 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia , who led the expansion of countries using the euro and helped steer the EU through the worst recession in six decades, will take over the competition portfolio in the next European Commission , an EU official said.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 8:35 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers will reprimand Greece next week for failing to take “credible and sustainable” measures to reduce its budget deficit toward the EU limit of 3 percent of output, a draft document shows.
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The Champaign News-Gazette - Tue Nov 24, 11:20 am ET
STRASBOURG, France (AP) – The United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European Union said Tuesday. With two weeks to go before a global climate conference, the EU urged Washington and Beijing to come to the Copenhagen event with meaningful bids to check their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 7:28 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers will reprimand Greece next week for failing to take “credible and sustainable” measures to reduce its budget deficit toward the EU limit of 3 percent of output, a draft document shows.