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Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany’s biggest state-owned lender, won European Union approval for a bailout after the bank agreed to cut assets and change the way it supervises management.
China on Tuesday rejected as "unacceptable" US and EU calls to release prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, who appears headed for trial on subversion charges after co-authoring a bold petition for democracy.
Oracle pledged to continue investing in Sun Microsystems' competing database software after its planned $7.4 billion purchase of the computer maker was threatened by European Union antitrust regulators.
China on Tuesday warned Western countries against taking up the case of a prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, who is facing trial for subversion, after the United States and European Union called for his release.
European Union regulators appear to be softening their opposition to Oracle Corp.'s proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., a shift that has resurrected some investors' hopes that one of the year's biggest technology deals will go ahead as... Sun Microsystem - European Union - Oracle Corporation - Oracle - Technology
A pledge in Oracle's commitments to regulators would continue to license MySQL, a key Web site software, for five years after Sun is acquired
Clifford Chance partner Thomas Vinje got some good news Monday: The European Union's antitrust authorities seem ready to approve Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems after Oracle said it would keep Sun's rival database program MySQL on the market, according to The New York Times. "This was considerably more intense than anything I have ever seen," says Vinje, who led a team of ...
Brussels - What is the European Union based on, political compromise or legal texts?The question lies at the heart of the dispute between the bloc's bureaucracy and its member states, which on Monda...
European Union regulators looked closer to approving Redwood City-based Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Santa Clara-based Sun Microsystems Inc. when they said Monday that the company's stated commitment to open-source database software was "an important new element.
The company may be winning over some critics as it seeks to get the OK on its purchase of Sun, but it also made some sizable commitments in return.
Total financial collapse, once a problem only for developing countries, has now come to Europe. The International Monetary Fund is imposing its "austerity measures" on the outer circle of the European Union.
(Adds comment, market reaction, background.) ATHENS -(Dow Jones)- Prime Minister George Papandreou said Monday Greece would bring its ballooning budget deficit into line with European Union rules by 2013 in an effort to assuage investor jitters over Greece's fiscal position.
The EU is struggling currently to reach € 3 billion in aid for developing countries for the fight against climate change, urging developing countries to do more for themselves whilst at the same time cutting the amount of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) that can be imported into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) by somewhere in the region of 30-80 percent.
The European Union and the United States called on China on Monday to release a prominent pro-democracy writer and rights activist who faces trial on charges of subversion.
The European Commission has introduced the use of non-Roman characters in .eu domain names. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK
The software giant's $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems could clear European antitrust cops after Oracle agreed to invest in Sun's MySQL database
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