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Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union gained more powers to open the telecommunication networks of companies such as Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA in the EU’s latest push to expand services and lower costs for consumers.
The European Parliament late yesterday officially approved a final key rule in its telecoms package that will require legal rights for those threatened with losing Internet access in piracy cases. The measure will only allow EU member states to cut off access if it's deemed "appropriate, proportionate and necessary within a democratic society." Any decision will require an objective procedure ...
The European parliament approved Tuesday a major overhaul of EU telecoms law aimed at boosting the rights of European mobile phone and Internet users and protection against access restrictions.
EU competition regulators ended antitrust action against Qualcomm on Tuesday after rivals withdrew complaints that the US microchip company had abused its dominant power in 3G markets.
Nearly half of Europe's unemployed stay out of work for at least a year, a European Union report said Monday, far more than in the U.S. Some 4 million people have lost their jobs since last year's financial crisis triggered an economic downturn across the 27-... European Union - Recession - Government - Unemployment - Multilateral
VENICE, Italy, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An Italian official said more resources are necessary to manage the wave of African migrants headed for the EU via Mediterranean countries.
BRUSSELS - The European Union today urged the United States and China to deliver greenhouse gas emissions targets at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen, saying...
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- All European Union leaders must go to Copenhagen in December to spur on climate change talks to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the U.K. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said Monday.
Global warming cannot be reversed unless the United States and China commit to meaningful cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions, the EU said Tuesday.
Following various political delays and arguments over Internet piracy , the EU was able to push its newly proposed telecom rules through Parliament. Now that it has gotten a 'yes' vote during a European Parliament plenary session, the EU says the new rules will become law by mid-2011. Among the many new rules in the directive is that incumbent service providers will have to keep their networks ...
The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing.
Instead of flushing out the around 100,000 undocumented Filipinos in Europe, the European Union (EU) plans to legalize their stay for helping keep the continents economy afloat amid the global economic crisis.
Fifty-nine U.S. senators have asked European antitrust regulators to speed up their investigation into Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, due to Sun's "deteriorating financial condition."
European Union report said Monday that close to 45 percent of all unemployment spells last longer than a year, compared with only about 10 percent in the United States.
Come early December, Oracle will meet with European Commission regulators to urge their approval of its merger with Sun Microsystems . Two people with knowledge of the matter tell Reuters that "Oracle has asked for a hearing which has been fixed for Dec. 10.
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