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Los Angeles Times - Sun Dec 6, 3:20 am ET
Though lauded for adopting wind power, its high recycling rate and its progressive policies, Denmark generates the most waste per capita in the EU and most of its energy still comes from coal. Something is rotting in the state of Denmark. Lots of things, actually, and it's a bit of an embarrassment for this Scandinavian nation as it prepares to host a widely anticipated global environmental ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 5:42 pm ET
Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto said Saturday they had signed a binding agreement on combining their vast iron ore operations in Western Australia, and have submitted the deal to the EU.
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Bloomberg - Sat Dec 5, 12:15 pm ET
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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Boston Globe - Sat Dec 5, 11:58 am ET
The Providence Journal, Providence, R.I., Nov. 30, 2009: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's long campaign to become the first president of Europe has ended unsuccessfully. The internationally little-known, haiku-composing premier of Belgium, Hermann Van Rompuy, has been named the first president of the European Union. He has been catapulted into a potentially powerful if still a bit ill ...
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TechWorld - Sat Dec 5, 3:22 am ET
Random list of browsers could win the day. Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen as demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may now get final approval as early as 15 December, according to a source familiar with the case.
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OfficialWire - Sat Dec 5, 2:56 am ET
While Stephen Harper's government stalls and denies and talks about "modest" cuts to carbon emissions and says nothing about how they will be achieved, other jurisdictions are taking real, meaningful steps to confront the problem of climate change.
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The Globalist - Sat Dec 5, 12:50 am ET
In filling the two new positions created by the Lisbon Treaty, the heads of government of the EU’s 27 member states came up with one very predictable choice — and one major surprise.
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Slashdot - Sat Dec 5, 12:28 am ET
CWmike writes "Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case has told Computerworld. As first reported by Bloomberg, Microsoft modified the ballot screen after rivals, including Opera Software and Mozilla, demanded changes. Last month, Opera, Mozilla and Google ...
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InternetNews.com - Fri Dec 4, 6:53 pm ET
Rumors suggested that Oracle would give in to European regulators' concerns about its buy of Sun-owned MySQL. Not so, the database giant says.
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ChannelWeb - Fri Dec 4, 6:46 pm ET
The director of the non-profit Software Freedom Law Center argued in a letter to the European Union commissioners who are currently examining whether Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun will harm the MySQL database that it's in Oracle's best interest to keep MySQL alive and well.
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GPS World - Fri Dec 4, 6:38 pm ET
Galileo Application Days is set for March 3-5, 2010, in Brussels, Belgium, with live demonstrations of cutting-edge applications developed for GNSS under the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), former ESNC Competitions, the ESA Technology Transfer Programme, and national and regional initiatives.
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ChannelWeb - Fri Dec 4, 6:01 pm ET
Microsoft and the European Union may at last be reaching the end of their decade-plus legal battle, as Microsoft has now conceded to a key demand from its Web browser rivals.
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Marketwire - Fri Dec 4, 5:43 pm ET
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - December 4, 2009) - Pulmo BioTech Inc. ( OTCBB : PLMO ) ( FRANKFURT : PBO ). In the same way that the European Union has previously made major infrastructure investments in countries such as Ireland, the EU is now encouraging and funding the development of high tech companies in Poland through its Structural and Cohesion Funds. Biotechnology Consulting Poland intends ...
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Fri Dec 4, 4:53 pm ET
Next Tuesday, Dec. 8th, EU foreign ministers are slated to discuss the draft of a new paper criticizing Israeli policies toward the occupied Palestinian territories. The document, which suggests that East Jerusalem should be the future designated capitol of a new Palestinian state has engendered a sharp rebuke from Israel and its supporters. [...]
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 4:35 pm ET
Switzerland announced Friday it would halve from next year its quotas of permits for workers from outside Europe, with unemployment and immigration at high levels.