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EUROPEAN UNION News, Jan 05, 2012


China Is The Latest Country To Challenge EU Carbon Tax
Huffington Post
The ratings agency Fitch warned last month the conflict could spiral into a global trade dispute. "China opposes the EU forcing through unilateral legislation," said a foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei. "We hope the EU side will be prudent and ...
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Exclusive: EU agrees to embargo on Iranian crude
Chicago Tribune
Related Photos: Exclusive: EU agrees to embargo on Iranian crude Iran says the program is strictly non-military, but Western countries say a November UN report shows it has sought to build an atomic bomb. Talks between Tehran and major powers broke ...
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EU 'on brink of recession' as inflation hits new low
Business Day
Figures yesterday showed inflation in the 17-nation euro area fell to 2,8% from 3% in November, theEuropean Union's statistics office in Luxembourg said. The latest purchasing managers' indices (PMIs) for the euro zone and several key individual ...
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Google Decision Hasn't Been Made by EU's Antitrust Regulator
Bloomberg
El Mundo reported the Spanish newspapers' complaint last month. To contact the reporter on this story: Aoife White in Brussels at awhite62@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net. ...
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Comex Gold Trades Near Steady, Supported by Safe-Haven Demand
Forbes
Spot gold was last quoted up $0.30 an ounce at $1613.50. March Comex silver last traded down $0.067 at $29.03 an ounce. There has been no major, fresh developments coming out of theEuropean Union debt crisis this week. A French bond auction was ...
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Iran reports nuclear progress as sanctions loom
Reuters
The move could for the first time hurt Tehran's oil exports, and the European Union is due to consider similar steps soon. As tensions have risen, Iran threatened last week to close the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow Gulf shipping lane through which 40 ...
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EU CRISIS ROAD MAP: Key Milestones Ahead
Wall Street Journal
Ireland's troika of lenders releases its latest quarterly review of the country's bailout. --Monday, Jan. 23: Euro-zone finance ministers meeting. French January business sentiment index. --Tuesday, Jan. 24: European Union finance ministers meeting. ...
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Croatia: Rightist intellectuals aim to postpone EU referendum
Adnkronos International English
Among the signers were university professors, academicians and former foreign minister and Croatia's ambassador to the United Nations, Zvonimir Separovic, thereports said. Croatia successfully concluded access talks with the EU last year and was to ...
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Adnkronos International English
Latvia registers EU's steepest reduction in producer prices in November
The Baltic Course
In November 2011, producer prices in Latvia decreased by 0.4%, compared to October, which was the largest reduction across the European Union, according to the latestdata from the EU's statistical office Eurostat. Denmark also registered a 0.4% ...
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The Baltic Course
Musa A Keilani: EU needs to show its power
Gulf Today
The latest European Union (EU) action that has enraged Lieberman, and of course the Israeli government itself, is the preparation of a confidential 27-page brief outlining indicators suggesting that Arab Israelis “suffer from economic disparities, ...
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FURY AT NEW EU TAX ON BRITAIN
Express.co.uk
The latest plotting triggered fury at Westminster amid fears the levy could penalise the City of London and lead to up to 500000 job cuts in the UK. It will add to the growing support for the Daily Express crusade to get Britain out of the EU. ...
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Five years in, newest EU states floundering
Deutsche Welle
In order to even let the two countries into the union, Brussels set up special standards for Bulgaria's eight million and Romania's 22 million people. Both countries are still subject to special controls. Yet the EU's critical reports of the countries' ...
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Morning business news - January 5
RTE.ie
The latest increase extended the current period of expansion to five months, NCB noted. *** Exchequer figures yesterday show that Ireland met budget targets set for 2011 under its EU/IMF package, despite missing its tax revenues by €873m. ...
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French farmers ignore battery hen ban
Telegraph.co.uk
Secretly-filmed footage from poultry farms suggests many egg producers on the Continent will flout a European Union ban on battery hens which comes into force today. By Jason Lewis, Investigations Editor, and Peter Allen in Paris The graphic images, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Crisis of Leadership, Not Crisis of Capitalism: Clive Crook
Bloomberg
With the world's rich economies struggling and the leaders of the European Unionintent on making things worse, the gravity of the economic crisis still confronting the West is hard to exaggerate. Nonetheless, it can be done. According to what I read, ...
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Bloomberg
EU Seeks to Expand Anti-Piracy Mission in Somalia
Spiegel Online
On Thursday, the German Foreign Ministry confirmed a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that the EU's Political and Security Committee had recently assigned Operation Atalanta's commander to draw up plans for how the EU'sforces ...
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Spiegel Online
The return of mass poverty to Europe
World Socialist Web Site
The EU report documenting the growth of poverty also contains figures on the increasing gap between rich and poor. In Germany, the richest one percent of the population possesses 23 percent of all wealth and the richest tenth controls 60 percent. ...
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Estonia anxious over eurozone financial woes
Al Jazeera
Estonia, the European Union's newest member, is the latest country to adopt the euro, having introduced the currency last year. The mood was festive at the time, but with Europe's current financial crisis, many now taken a more sombre view. ...
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Seoul shares edge up in rangebound session; refiners lead
Reuters
Crude oil refiners rallied after crude oil prices rose on the European Union reaching a preliminary agreement to ban imports of Iranian oil, in the latest measure of the Western-led embargo aimed at pressuring Iran to halt its nuclear programme. ...
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On 10th anniversary, euro takes blame for economy
Chicago Sun-Times
By 2007, at the height of an economic boom and with calls for the euro to become the world's reserve currency, 72 percent thought the currency was a “good thing” for Europe. In the EU's latest survey, that figure has fallen to around two-thirds of ...
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Gerald Celente: EU Collapses in 90 Days, Bank Holiday and War
Beacon Equity Research
According to Celente, when the European Union falters from too much supply of debt coming due ($7.3 trillion from G-7 nations, see zerohedge.com) against the backdrop of sliding demand for more debt, the European domino will topple other dominoes, ...
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Spain Misses Deficit Target, Sets Cuts
Wall Street Journal
Hear six families -- from Greece, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands -- tell theirstories. See economic, political and markets news from across Europe as governments and financial institutions deal with the continuing debt crisis. ...
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ETS Goes Live As Political Battles Gather Momentum
Aviation International News
However, he did urge operators not to leave the reporting and verification process until the last few weeks. According to Adam Hartley, regulatory services supervisor with Universal Weather and Aviation, the company's EU-ETS web portal has helped ...
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Syngenta Corn Gluten Feed Held Up In Europe Over Concerns They Contain GMOs
UK Progressive Magazine
European traders say the latest problem is with the new genetically modified organism (GMO) corn gluten feed – MIR162 Agrisure Viptera – from Swiss group Syngenta, approved for cultivation in the US in 2010, but has not been approved in the EU. ...
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UK Progressive Magazine
Iceland's Hardardottir Committed to Euro on Tighter Fiscal Ties
BusinessWeek
Iceland opened talks on joining European Union in 2010, two years after the nation's banking system and economy collapsed. The country, which has since relied on capital controls to protect its currency, is pushing ahead with membership talks as Europe ...
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Iran seeks to re-open nuclear talks
The move by Iran to reopen discussions comes after news reports that Iran has tested long-range missiles during naval exercises in the Persian Gulf on December 31, as well as concerns expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) about a weapons dimension to the Iranian nuclear program. This was the key ... CNN quotes Atta as saying: "In addition to our recent letters to theEuropean Union, we will soon send another letter and then a meeting will be arranged." ...
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Oil toy: 'Iran embargo to bring little joy to EU' — RT
By RT
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's letter asked Iran to respond to the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's nuclear program and return to negotiations. The letter was sent to Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed ...
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XE.com - WRAPUP 1-Iran reports nuclear progress as sanctions loom
Deputy Navy Commander Mahmoud Mousavi told IRNA state news agency it had successfully test fired a medium-range surface-to-air missile equipped with 'the latest sophisticated anti-radar technologies'. Iran has ... The U.N. Security Council has already imposed four rounds of global sanctions on Iran, but Russia and China have refused to back sanctions that would seriously affect Iran's oil industry, so the EU and United States have taken measures on their own. Just how far the ...
XE Forex News
Top 20 eHealth News Articles - a Look Back at 2011 - eHealthNews.eu
eHealthNews.eu - The First European eHealth News Portal. ... eHealthNews.eu Portal brought readers the eHealth news that mattered, and as the year ends we look back at the stories that are worth revisiting, again and again. The Top 20 News Articles of the Year 2011, ... Body Browser application works in the latest beta version of Google Chrome browser and uses WebGL, a new standard that enables 3D experiences in the web browser without any plug-ins. Read more... 4. ...
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EU Move Joins US To Force Iran To Bend On Nukes | Global Spin ...
By Bruce Crumley
News of Wednesday night's E.U. agreement to ban oil imports from Iran came after the long-discussed proposal had finally gotten the backing of formerly reticent member states like Italy, Spain, and Greece. As a result, French Foreign Minister ...
Global Spin
Friday News Briefing - News - The Prague Post
By News Desk (Team)
SUBSIDIES The European Commission (EC) will likely suspend subsidies to the Education Ministry, the Czech News Agency (ÄŒTK) reported. An EC audit found numerous problems in placing public tenders by the ministry. It is the latest ...
The Prague Post
Pentagon pushes back on Iranian warnings to U.S. aircraft carrier ...
By live news
Salehi didn't name the American naval vessel in question, "but the USS John C. Stennis leads a task force in the region, and the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet website pictured it in the Arabian Sea last week," Reuters reported. Tensions have been rising ... However, a European Union spokesman told YahooNews Tuesday that the body had not yet received a formal written response from Iran responding toEU High Representative Catherine Ashton's proposal for a meeting. Iran last met with ...
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Video: Huge protests in Hungary against new constitution
Top Blogs» Latest Blogs» Post Blog» · Images · Top Images» Latest Images» Upload Images» ... the signing of the constitution. BBC News reports that the United States and the European Union have also asked for withdrawing the new laws. ...
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Bulgaria 12th in EU Renewable Energy Share of Gross Consumption
The renewable energy share of Bulgaria's gross final energy consumption was 12.9% in 2010, ranking the country 12th among the EU member states, according to estimates published by EurObserv'ER.
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New EU Test Scheme for Marine Renewables
A new EU funded scheme worth £7.7m (EUR 9m) is providing access for companies and researchers to specialist marine renewable energy testing centres across Europe.
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Nigeria EU News - World News Report
Nigeria EU News Live Feed. Latest Nigeria EU News from World News Report. 4828 of 73953205 HEADLINES. Relevance. |; Date; |; Tools. 1 Jan 16:31 GMT ...
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3rd UPDATE: EU Agrees In Principle To Oil Embargo On Iran-EU ...
Latest News | Global Finance ... BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union member states agreed in principle to press ahead with an ... barrels a day of Iranian crude, the International Energy Agency said in its latest monthly oil- market report. ...
www.gfmag.com/latestnews/latest-news-old.html?newsid=1...
Hungary tells EU no central bank merger until 2013 - Latest news ...
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has assured Brussels no merger of the central bank and regulatory authority will take place before 2013, as partLatest ...
news.malaysia.msn.com/top-stories/article.aspx?cp...
US and European dominance in farming under threat, report warns ...
It was last modified at 08.56 GMT on Wednesday 4 January 2012 . ... that the US was still the biggest player in the global industry, followed closely by the EU. .... Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are both bad news for climate change fight; 5. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../jan/.../us-european-dominance-farmin...
EU Calls on Romania To Set Up Natural Gas Bourse ‹ Latest News ...
see news financial markets south east europe south eastern europe ... in a bid to eliminate price deregulation on the market, a Commission's report showed. ...
seenews.com/.../euurgesromaniatosetupnaturalgasbourse-1050...
LATEST NEWS EU ECONOMY
LATEST NEWS EU ECONOMY. ... AP - IN THE CLEAR: The Swiss National Bank published an independent auditors' report which concluded that currency ...
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Rooney set to return after United axe - reports - Latest sport news
Sport news | euronews : International and European news all available as video on demand.
www.euronews.net/.../1304371-man-united-bogged-down-by-...
EU leaders warn of tough year on euro anniversary - Latest news ...
European leaders predicted more economic gloom in 2012 amid muted celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the euro single currency, far from the fanfLatest ...
news.malaysia.msn.com/top-stories/article.aspx?cp...
Press Summary Archive - Open Europe - independent think tank ...
The FT reports that talks will include discussion for a 'road map' to Eurobonds after the European Parliament put forward such a proposal last week. ... Following the news that EU member states have decided to take the European Commission ...
www.openeurope.org.uk/media-centre/summary.aspx?id...
Denmark takes over the EU Presidency | Top News Stories Daily ...
The external borders of the EU is also on the agenda. On 1 July 2012, ... WReporter.com is an onlinenews blog committed to providing the latest quality news. ...
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