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EUROPEAN UNION News, Nov 08, 2011


EU Transaction Tax Debate Highlights Euro-Area Disagreement
BusinessWeek
8 (Bloomberg) -- Bank tax proposals exposed broad disagreement among European Union policy makers today, during the first public debate over EU plans to draw revenue from banks and other financial firms. Finance ministers from Germany, ...
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Analysis: Losing credibility, EU seeks IMF's embrace
Reuters
It will do so while working hard to retain its position as the most credible and independent of the European Union's institutions. But at some point, if EU leaders cannot find a way to take the quick, aggressive steps needed to get on top of the crisis ...
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Reuters
Europe seeks united front on reinforcing banks
Reuters
By Julien Toyer and John O'Donnell BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - European Unionfinance ministers sought on Tuesday to agree how to shore up sagging banks and avert a credit squeeze, as rising borrowing costs for Italy threaten to unleash a new and more...
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EU diesel tax proposal could help refining sector-OPEC
Reuters
LONDON Nov 8 (Reuters) - A European Union proposal to remove diesel tax advantages and put the fuel on a par with gasoline could throw the region's struggling refining sector a lifeline, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said. ...
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Russia-EU gas pipeline delivers first supplies
Financial Times
Ms Merkel on Tuesday said the European Union and Russia would “remain linked” in their energy partnership for decades, despite efforts by EU governments to diversify their energy sources from fossil fuels to renewable forms. Having decided to phase out ...
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EU sends experts to Rome to monitor Italy's budget
EUX.TV
The European Union is sending a team of experts on a 'technical mission' to Rome to intensify the international monitoring of the Italian government's budget. This was announced late on Monday by Olli Rehn, European Commission Vice President for the ...
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European Union: Stalled Doha round spawns rush of bilateral deals
Financial Times
By Joshua Chaffin In July, when the European Union cut the ribbon on a free-trade agreement with South Korea after years of sometimes frustrating negotiations, it was a moment for celebration. Karel De Gucht, EU trade commissioner, hailed the agreement...
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Comex Gold Trades Near Steady; Fresh News Regarding EU Debt Crisis Awaited
Forbes
The market is pausing as traders await fresh developments from the ongoing European Union sovereign debt crisis. The precious yellow metal is flirting with psychological resistance at the $1800.00 level. December gold last traded up $1.00 at $1792.10 ...
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UPDATE 1-EU raids Sweden's SKF in antitrust probe
Reuters
SKF said Commission representatives had visited its facilities in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Schweinfurt, Germany, to gather information. The European Commission, the EUexecutive body which oversees competition policy in the bloc, did not identify the ...
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EU examines bigger role for EIB, bank guarantees
Reuters
By John O'Donnell and Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Unionfinance ministers are considering calls to bolster the European Investment Bank so it can lend more as well as set up a single state guarantee scheme for banks, according to ...
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Gazprom: EU Wrong To Assume Company Behaves Anticompetitively
Fox Business
His comments come after the European Commission raided gas companies in central and eastern Europe, including subsidiaries of energy giants such as E.ON AG (EOAN.XE) and Gazprom on suspicions that they might have breached EU competition rules or would ...
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China urges EU to drop aviation emission scheme, lawsuit looms
Xinhua
8 (Xinhua) -- China's aviation watchdog on Tuesday urged the European Union to drop a plan that would require global airlines to buy carbon emission permits, while Chinese aviation industry reportedly plan to sue the EU over the unpopular scheme. ...
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EU needs financial transaction tax: Belgian finance minister
Reuters
"If it's possible in the European Union it will be a good evolution. If it's not we will maybe do the same in euro zone only," Reynders told journalists ahead of a meeting ofEU finance ministers in Brussels, referring to a financial transaction tax. ...
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EU eyes measures to avoid credit crunch
CBS News
(AP) BRUSSELS — The European Union's internal markets commissioner says the bloc is working on a mechanism to guarantee lending between banks in an attempt to prevent another credit crunch. Michel Barnier said Tuesday "a coordinated European approach ...
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President Medvedev calls for lifting Russia-EU visa regime
RIA Novosti
Russia and the European Union have already reached an agreement on long-term visas for up to five years. The EU currently issues short-term visas from several days to one year, although the Schengen Agreement allows five-year visas. ...
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EU low on credibility due to Greek, Italian debt, says Swedish finmin
Reuters
BRUSSELS Nov 8 (Reuters) - The European Union is running low on credibility due to the debt troubles of Greece and Italy, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said on Tuesday. "Europe is running dry on credibility and a solution to a high debt crisis ...
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UPDATE 1-EU power funding must double - think-tank
Reuters
By Christopher Le Coq and Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - European Union nations must nearly double investment in grid building in the decade after 2020 if they are to get on the path to carbon-free electricity by the middle of the century, ...
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EU Migration: The Commission and the International Organization for Migration ...
eGov monitor
It is applicable to any operation, programme or project administered by IOM and financed or co-financed by the European Union. At the signing ceremony, Commissioner Malmström said: "IOM is a key partner of the European Union. The EUand IOM work ...
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EU To Speed Up EFSF Leveraging; Ups Pressure On Greece, Italy
RTT News
Finance Ministers from the European Union is meeting on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments, including Italian debt concerns and EFSF leveraging. by RTT Staff Writer EU - 11082011 - 1 . jpg.
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RTT News
EU delegation to check hygiene standards at Gujarat ports
Daily News & Analysis
Place: Rajkot (Gujarat) | Agency: PTI A delegation of European Union (EU) would visit various ports in India, including those in Gujarat this month, to inspect the sanitation and hygiene standards followed by the fishermen and marine products export ...
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EU food pesticide residue levels fall -EFSA
Reuters Africa
MILAN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Pesticide residues found in food in the European Union fell in 2009 compared with 2008 thanks to tightening of safety rules and changes in patterns of pesticide use in Europe, EU's food safety agency said on Tuesday. ...
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EU development cooperation with Uganda
IEWY News
Uganda receives support from the European Commission in two main areas: transport/infrastructure and rural development. Under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), Uganda will benefit from total EU funding of €439 million between 2008 and 2013; ...
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Europe new vehicle sales to be flat in 2012, SA exporters could be affected
Creamer Media's Engineering News
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) automotive industry analysis unit Autofacts expects 2012 sales in the financially simmering European Union (EU) – defined as the 27 members of the EU, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – to be flat, ...
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What exactly would the UK gain from leaving the EU?
PublicServiceEurope.com
by Justin Stares Could the United Kingdom leave the European Union while maintaining the free trade agreement that Norway enjoys with the bloc? There are on the face of it many advantages to a free trade agreement with the EU over full membership. ...
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Riksbank's Ingves: EU Macroprudential Risks Must Be Assessed
Wall Street Journal
BERLIN (Dow Jones)--Marcoprudential risks need to be identified in European Unioneconomies and communicated clearly to prevent the risks from materializing, Stefan Ingves, chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, said Tuesday. ...
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European Union provides assistance to flood victims - Flood News
By Thailand News
European Union provides assistance to flood victims On 3 November 2011, Mr. David Lipman, Ambassador Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to.
Siam Daily News Online
EU faithful face huge uphill battle : Views and News from Norway
By Views and News staff
PHOTO: EU Commission. Even its leader, Paal Frisvold, was quoted this week innewspaper Aftenposten as referring to the EU as “madness” during a panel debate in Halden. There will be trouble, he noted, when 27 different European ...
Views and News from Norway
NewsDaily: Analysis: Losing credibility, EU seeks IMF's embrace
By Luke Baker and Annika Breidthardt
Trust in the European Union's ability to tackle the debt crisis is so low that its leaders are now relying on the IMF and European Central Bank to convince financial markets the rapidly deteriorating problems can be fixed.
NewsDaily: Top Headlines
EU Report Describes Doha Benefits - Tax News
EU Report Describes Doha Benefits. by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels. 08 November 2011. A new study from the European Commission reveals that the economic benefits arising from successful Doha Development Agenda (DDA) ...
Tax-News.Com Live Tax Headlines
EU Economic Governance will not function without ... - Europe in News
By Europe in News
Europe in News News on the European Union. Home ... Today. the EU pays the price for having rushed Greek accession in 1981 without due diligence and accepted its premature entry into the euro-zone in 2001. For a country with just 10 ...
Europe in News
XE.com - HIGHLIGHTS-European Union finance ministers, officials
Search for a news provider, date, or keywords. News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters Date format: yyyy-mm-dd. Refresh Articles. HIGHLIGHTS-European Union finance ministers, officials. Top Articles ...
XE Forex News
Sustainable Shipping News - Latest News - Modal shift 'doubtful ...
European Union (EU) official says he doubts tighter limits on the sulphur content of bunker fuel will trigger a 'modal shift' away from short-sea shipping. "Various studies offer differing conclusions as to whether a modal shift is imminent," ...
Sustainableshipping News
Chancellor caught up in tax spat « News Hub Today
By NewsHubToday
The European Commission has called for a 5.9% increase in 2014-2020, which it says is needed to meet existing spending commitments and support poorer EU members. But the Treasury has estimated this could actually amount to a 11% ...
News Hub Today
LUX Prize A political angle on Attenberg
By admin@luxprize.eu (Administrator)
attenberg-news. Attenberg – a political view *. While easy to proclaim this the least overtly political film of the three LLUX Prize 2011 finalists, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is actually steeped in a particularly Greek backdrop of current events. The €110 billion bailout is conditional on ... This is perhaps how this film expresses the resolve with which Greece and the European Union has begun and must continue to work a way through the crisis. *by Nick Shaw, British member of ' 27 ...
LUX Prize News
Grahnlaw: EU Council communications: Heard of the eurozone?
By Grahnlaw
However, when I arrive at the web page of the Council of the European Union very early in the morning, the latest news on offer are statements from the high representative Catherine Ashton about Northern Nigeria, Liberia, Syria, Japan, Israel ...
Grahnlaw
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The European Union's journey towards ever-closer union has ...
By admitting that an exit from the euro for Greece is possible, the EU has abandoned its founding doctrine.
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../The-European-Unions-journey-towar...
Cyr: Greek drama imperils European Union | ScrippsNews
By DAVID PERLMAN, San Francisco Chronicle. Cyr: Greek drama imperils European Union. By ARTHUR I. CYR, Scripps Howard News Service. Real Salt Lake ...
www.scrippsnews.com/.../cyr-greek-drama-imperils-european-...
EU News & PR » Blog Archive » European Union (EU) leaders ...
EU leaders agree on position for G20 summit European Union (EU) leaders on Sunday agreed on the bloc's position for the upcoming G20 summit, calling on...
www.newspressrelease.eu/.../european-union-eu-leaders-agree-...
European Union crisis summit comes up with a deal - Oct. 26, 2011
At a crisis summit, European Union leaders announced an agreement early Thursday on debt crisis measures, including a hard-fought deal with private sector ...
money.cnn.com/2011/10/26/news/.../european.../index.htm
BBC News - European Union restarts Guernsey corporate tax review
The review into Guernsey's corporate tax regime will restart, the European Union Code of Conduct Group announces.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-15498170
CHINA – EUROPEAN UNION EU reaches deal, hoping ... - Asia News
After a late-hour marathon, the Eurogroup comes up with a three-pronged strategy to solve debt crisis: recapitalisation of banks, accepting losses on Greek debt ...
www.asianews.it/.../EU-reaches-deal,-hoping-for-Chinese-inve...
EUobserver.com / Agenda / This WEEK in the European Union
The trusted source of EU related news and information ... of highly indebted countries, as the EU commission is due to publish its autumn economic forecasts for ...
euobserver.com/82/114175
Richter: European Union close to collapse | BNN-NEWS.COM
Given that the European Union is close to a collapse, Europe needs to show solidarity, says Frank-Jürgen Richter, Chairman of Horasis: The Global Visions ...
bnn-news.com/richter-european-union-close-collapse-40301
TDM Call for papers "The European Union and International ...
Home > News & Events > News > TDM Call for papers "The European Union and International Investment Protection Law and Arbitration" ...
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