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The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said.
By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor Emeritus BRUSSELS, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Europe's new president, haiku-writing Herman Van Rompuy, is being pressed to build a new G2 of the EU and the United States but lacks the basic tools that would be required.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. revised an antitrust- settlement with European Union regulators after browser makers complained the accord gave the company an unfair advantage, according to two people familiar with the case.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union appealed court rulings that overturned industrial-emission caps on Poland and Estonia, seeking to guard against a price slump in the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas market.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Government stimulus should be maintained until Europe’s economy fully recovers from recession, European Union leaders will say at a summit next week.
French farmers won EU approval Wednesday for receiving up to euro15,000 each in subsidies they demanded after a sharp drop in food prices.
The European Union says a new global climate pact should ensure that world emissions of greenhouse gases peak no later than 2020 and include quantified pollution targets for major developing countries.
French gas and electricity utility GDP Suez SA avoided European Union antitrust fines by striking a binding deal with regulators Thursday to open up French gas import capacity to rivals.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Swedish Industry Minister Maud Olofsson warned General Motors Co. against seeking government aid in Europe for its Adam Opel GmbH unit that would preserve jobs in one European Union nation at the expense of those in other EU states.
A top EU official accused Ukraine of dragging its feet on reforms at a summit in Kiev on Friday, while the ex-Soviet republic's leader complained about a delay in a promised EU-Ukraine accord.
The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said.
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.
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.
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.
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union countries aren't uniformly following a global agreement on bankers' bonuses, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said Monday.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- European Union industry ministers reached a “breakthrough” deal to create an EU patent system and a process for resolving disputes over inventions.
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