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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. ’s planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. may be blocked by European Union regulators because of concerns that Oracle might be able to eliminate Sun’s MySQL database product as a competitor, according to an EU document.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- European Union leaders sought to fill two top-level jobs as Britain’s Catherine Ashton , the bloc’s trade commissioner, emerged as a last-minute candidate to oversee EU foreign policy.
Trade commissioner Catherine Ashton of Britain was selected as the EU's new foreign policy chief and Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was picked for president. Their appointments suggested the need for compromise outweighed the desire for big names like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Seven socialist prime ministers backed the European Union's trade commissioner to be its new foreign policy chief, moving a Thursday summit closer to breaking a stalemate over two freshly created top EU jobs.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Right2bet petition is an online campaign which aims to gather the signatures of a million E.U residents, just enough to force the European Union to debate the issue of Gambling Law and Monopolies in parliament under the new Citizens' Initiative, as part of the European Union's new 'Lisbon Treaty'.
The choice of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as European Union president means Turkey is less likely to be accepted, a Turkish leader says.
European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Any European aid to General Motors Co. ’s Opel unit should be coordinated among national governments, leaders from Germany and Belgium said.
BRUSSELS -- EU leaders on Thursday handed the European Union's top new jobs to two little-known compromise figures -- Belgium's prime minister and the EU's trade commissioner -- dashing hopes of those who wanted to raise the continent's global profile.
(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Right2bet petition is an online campaign which aims to gather the signatures of a million E.U residents, just enough to force the European Union to debate the issue of Gambling Law and Monopolies in parliament under the new Citizens' Initiative, as part of the European Union's new 'Lisbon Treaty'.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. received a six-day extension to European Union regulator’s deadline to review its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. after asking for more time to address competition concerns.
European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who is little known outside his own country, as the bloc's first president on Thursday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the world stage.
Germany warned fellow European governments on Monday against offering financial aid to General Motors Europe in exchange for job guarantees, hours ahead of a meeting in Brussels to discuss the future of the company.
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Europe is wasting an opportunity to use its farms and forests as carbon collectors, a study said. Properly managed, the European Union’s fields and trees could absorb 111 million tons of CO2, the equivalent of 11 percent of the region’s emissions from burning fossil fuels.
European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc.
Frankfurt -- Germany warned fellow European governments on Monday against offering financial aid to General Motors Europe in exchange for job guarantees, hours ahead of a meeting in Brussels to discuss the future of the company.
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