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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 8:10 pm ET
British foreign minister David Miliband has turned down the chance to become the European Union's envoy to the rest of the world, the BBC reported Monday.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 4:36 am ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Czech government is meeting to break an impasse in the selection of the country’s next European Union commissioner after central bank Governor Zdenek Tuma dropped out and the premier resisted pressure to take the job.
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Nasdaq - Mon Nov 9, 6:02 am ET
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The Spanish government will continue to drive changes to the European Union's proposed hedge fund rules when it takes over the presidency of the EU at the end of the year, Paul Myners, the U.K. Treasury's financial services secretary, said Monday.
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San Francisco Chronicle - 2 hours 3 minutes ago
European Union countries on Tuesday backed new financial oversight rules for bankers' pay and for how much extra capital banks should set aside to cover high-risk investments. The new rules, agreed by finance ministers, still need the support of the European... European Union - Bank - Finance - Government - Multilateral
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 10, 2:35 am ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Czech central bank Governor Zdenek Tuma rejected his nomination to become the country’s next European Union commissioner, saying talks with party leaders revealed that he would not be a consensus candidate.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 2:53 pm ET
Belgian leader Herman Van Rompuy and Britain's David Miliband have emerged as the front-runners for two top jobs in the European Union, but the British minister has distanced himself from the post of foreign policy chief.
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INO News - Mon Nov 9, 7:13 am ET
(RTTNews) - Indonesia and the European Union (EU) Monday signed a partnership agreement aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between the regional bloc and Southeast Asia's largest economy.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 11:34 am ET
Berlin - The European Union's Swedish presidency will set the date within days for an EU summit to decide who should be the bloc's first president, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said Monday. I will call a summit within a matter of days, Reinfeld...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 9:35 am ET
Brussels - The recession has increased European perceptions that age may be a problem when seeking a new job, according to a European Union survey published Monday. The Eurobarometer survey, which polled citizens in the EU as well as in candidate cou...
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Nasdaq - 1 hour 25 minutes ago
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union countries Tuesday reached a deal to further harmonize taxes on tobacco products sold in the bloc, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told a news conference.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 11:21 am ET
Somali pirates have launched their deepest attack into the Indian Ocean, firing rocket propelled grenades at a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker, the European Union anti-piracy mission said Monday.
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Nasdaq - 2 hours 55 minutes ago
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union finance ministers Tuesday urged the Greek government to restore confidence in its economic data. Greece in recent years regularly has revised economic estimates, including the measure of its government budget deficit.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 8:19 am ET
Brussels - European Union citizens are now able to check how bad for their health industrial plants near their homes are, after the EU's executive on Monday opened an online tracker for the main pollutants. The register will give citizens direct acc...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 6:05 am ET
Stockholm/Berlin- The search for the first president of the European Union was set to dominate behind-the-scenes talks in Berlin on Monday as EU leaders gathered to commemorate the fall of the Iron Curtain. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 5:34 am ET
Jakarta - Indonesia and the European Union on Monday signed a partnership agreement intended to bolster cooperation in areas such as trade, the environment and counter-terrorism. The agreement was the first of its kind between the EU and a South-East...