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EUROPEAN UNION News, May 03, 2012

EU finance ministers report little progress on capital rules
RTE.ie
The EU's 27 members are divided over how much capital banks should hold in future to protect themselves against huge losses. Similar losses have brought down dozens of lenders in Europe and the United States, often requiring bailouts funded by ...
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Comex Gold Lower amid "Risk-Off" Trading Day, Firmer US Dollar Index
Forbes
June gold last traded down $10.00 at $1652.50 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted down $11.10 an ounce at $1651.50. July Comex silver last traded down $0.30 at $30.63 an ounce. The European Union debt and financial worries are back on the front burner...
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EU welfare rules to trigger exodus of pig farmers
Reuters
A recent report issued by BPEX estimated that a drop of the EU pig herd of 5 percent would lead to a price increase for finished pigs of 10 percent. However, a 10 percent decline in the herd would lead to serious shortages of pigmeat across the EU and ...
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Eurozone unemployment hits record 10.9%
CNN
The unemployment rate across the broader 27-nation European Union remained at 10.2% in March, according to a organization report Wednesday. But the 17-nation eurozone unemployment edged up from 10.8% in February. The EU and eurozone rates are the ...
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EU Urges China To Show 'Restraint' In Chen Guangcheng Case
RTT News
(RTTNews) - The European Union on Monday urged Chinese authorities to "exercise utmost restraint" while handling the case of prominent dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from detention at his house in Shandong province lastweek.
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Report: Merkel urges treatment for Tymoshenko
Fox News
European Union President Herman Van Rompuy, meanwhile, announced Thursday he would not travel to any of the matches in Ukraine, joining other top officials such as theEuropean Commission's President Jose Manuel Barroso and the governments of Austria ...
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Comex Gold Ends Lower Amid a "Risk-Off" Trading Day in Market Place
Forbes
Also, the European Union debt and financial worries were back on the front burner of the market place Wednesday. There was a very weak European Union manufacturingreport released overnight that added a negative tone to the raw commodity markets, ...
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Google's Street View to Be Discussed by EU Regulators
Bloomberg
Last year, it was fined 100000 euros ($131460) in France for violating the country's privacy rules. The New York Times reported that EU regulators were reviewing the issue earlier today. To contact the reporter on this story: Aoife White in Brussels at ...
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UK Should Seek London Base for EU Patent Court, Lawmakers Say
Bloomberg
The UK government should demand that a new European Union patent court be located in London, UK lawmakers said in a report. Locating the Unified Patent Court in London would “mitigate the most damaging effects of a unitary EU-wide patent,” the UK...
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Euro-Area Unemployment at 15-Year High as Slump Deepens: Economy
Bloomberg
The jobless rate in the 17-nation euro area increased to 10.9 percent in March from 10.8 percent in February, the European Union statistics office in Luxembourg said today. That's the highest since April 1997, according to Bloomberg News data.
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Bloomberg
German Unions Seeking Higher Pay Could Save the Euro
Bloomberg
Union Cavalry But the cavalry may show up in the unlikely form of German trade unions, which are seeking big wage increases this year. Recentdemands by German workers range from 3 percent to 6 percent. As Bloomberg News reported, IG Metall, Europe's ...
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Bloomberg
Ukraine Calls Boycotts of Euro Football Tournament 'Cold War Tactic'
Voice of America
April 30, 2012 Ukraine Calls Boycotts of Euro Football Tournament 'Cold War Tactic' VOA News Ukraine has characterized as "Cold War tactics" a move by top European Union officials to boycott events in Ukraine in protest of the imprisonment and ...
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Pro-EU vs. nationalist camps in Serbia vote
KWQC 6
More >> The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week by the most in nearly a year. The figure was a hopeful sign one day before the government releases the April jobs report.More >> A jury has convicted one man of murder in a ...
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Europeans protest austerity at May Day rallies
Reuters
DESPAIR The marches come against a backdrop of growing frustration towards austerity that more fiscally conservative northern euro zone members say is necessary to bring deficits down to meet EU limits and end the debt crisis.
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Irish Fin Min: No Access To Any New Bailout If EU Treaty Rejected
Wall Street Journal
DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Ireland will have no access to any new international bailout if its voters reject the European Union fiscal treaty in a public referendum May 31, the country's finance minister said Sunday. Michael Noonan was responding to a Sunday ...
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Euro zone unemployment at record high 10.9%
Los Angeles Times
The jobless rate is up from 10.8% in February and also from the year-earlier rate of 9.9% in March 2011, according to Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office. Unemployment, now at the highest level since the euro debuted in 1999, ...
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EU Needs Tougher Bank Capital Rules, Borg Says
Washington Post
Apr. 29, 2012 - Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg discusses bank capital rules and a European Union proposal to fix core capital requirements at 7 percent of lenders' fixed-weighted assets. He spoke with Bloomberg's Johan Carlstrom in Stockholm on ...
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Europe Auto Makers Seek to Revise Korea Trade Deal
Wall Street Journal
By MIKE RAMSEY European auto makers have begun a lobbying effort aimed at revising a free-trade agreement that has led to a substantial increase in imports of Korean-made vehicles. A new trade agreement between the European Union and South Korea went ...
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Stocks fall on weak US report; Spain concerns
USA TODAY
Its economy is roughly twice the size of the three other countries that have tapped the European Union for bailout loans added together -- Greece, Portugal and Ireland. The Institute for Supply Management said its Chicago business barometer dropped in ...
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USA TODAY
EU: Growth Strategy Not Alternative To Fiscal Consolidation
Wall Street Journal
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Efforts to find ways to boost regional growth aren't an alternative to fiscal consolidation, a European Commission spokeswoman said Monday, as she played down weekend media reports that talked of massive newEuropean Union-funded ...
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World workers express anger, gloom on May Day
USA TODAY
Taking the baton from Asia, where unions demanded wage increases as they transformed the day from one celebrating workers rights to one of international protest, workers turned out in droves in Greece, France and Spain — the latest focus of a debt ...
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USA TODAY
Spain Downgraded On Debt Concerns
Wall Street Journal
Spain's cabinet is set Friday to approve the fiscal report that European Unioncountries use to show they are serious about sticking to their debt and deficit rules. Earlier on Thursday, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the austerity policies ...
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European Regulators May Reopen Street View Inquiries
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
But last week, a new report on the incident by the US Federal CommunicationsCommission showed that the programmer, a Google engineer who lives in Palo Alto, California, had informed his colleagues in 2007 and 2008 that his software program would also ...
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Comex Gold Near Steady in Thin Trading; US Data Awaited
Forbes
June gold last traded up $1.70 at $1665.90 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted up $1.10 an ounce at $1666.00. July Comex silver last traded down $0.026 at $30.995 an ounce. The European Union debt and financial worries are temporarily on the back ...
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`Constrained Discretion' Seen for EU Bank Capital
Washington Post
Apr. 30, 2012 - Sharon Bowles, chairwoman of the European Union's economic and monetary affairs committee, talks about bank capital rules. She speaks with Caroline Hyde and David Tweed on Bloomberg Television's "On the Move.
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IWS Documented News DAILY POSTINGS: [IWS] EU (Special Note ...
By noreply@blogger.com (SBasefsky)
This review merges two previous European Commission reports on these areas. It begins with an overview of the current European employment and social situation before looking at recent shifts in Europe's job structure and in income ...
IWS Documented News DAILY POSTINGS
European Commission to invest up to 200 billion euros in EU ...
The European Commission is drawing up large-scale plan to raise and invest up to 200 billion euros in the EU economies. According to news reports, the funds are due to be invested in infrastructure, renewable energy sources and advanced ...
Voice of Russia, News
Russia stunned after Japanese reveal plan to ... - Intrepid Report.com
By Jerry Mazza
According to an April 15 article in the European Union Times, a new report circulating in the Kremlin, “prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight” states that Russian diplomats ... According to Prison Planet News Service: “Matsumura posted [this] startling entry on his blog following a statement made by Japan's former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata, on the situation at Fukushima.
Intrepid Report.com
Conditioned play: EU may boycott EURO 2012 over Tymoshenko ...
By RT
Go to main page News Conditioned play: EU may boycott EURO 2012 over Tymoshenko case. Follow RT on. facebook twitter YouTube Google+. MORE ON THE STORY ... Germany, the EU's most populous member state and its biggest economy, has been particularly critical of Kiev over the Tymoshenko case, going as far as to offer the ex-PM treatment in Berlin for a reported back problem. The tournament, Europe's most important football championship for national teams, will be ...
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ALCOHOL REPORTS: Alcohol News - 18/2012
By Loran Archer
Contemporary Swedes drink significantly more alcohol and eat more meat since the country joined the European Union in 1995, according to a new report by the Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket). Read more. Fox News (USA) ...
ALCOHOL REPORTS
EU Comm: Latest EMU Jobless Rate Shows Labour Reform Needed ...
By Market News International
EU Comm: Latest EMU Jobless Rate Shows Labour Reform Needed. By Market NewsInternational || May 2, 2012 at 11:40 GMT. || 0 comments || Add comment. FRANKFURT (MNI) – The European Commission has taken note of the “worrying” ...
ForexLive
ILO Urges Worker-Friendly Recovery Policies | Other News
By site admin
The unemployment rate has increased in nearly two-thirds of European Union (EU) countries since 2010, according to the report, which also noted that labour market recovery has also stalled in other industrialised nations, including Japan ...
Other News
Armenian News: Armenia, EU hold 2nd round of negotiations for ...
By Armenian News
le=”text-align: justify; “>On April 26 and 27, in Brussels, the Armenian and European Union (EU) delegations held the 2nd round of negotiations for simplified issuance of entry visas and readmission of illegal immigrants. Armenia's Ministry of ...
Armenian News
UK: Heathrow Airport Delays Spark Criticism - Travel News Story ...
... Heathrow Airport faced long lines at passport control. Waits of up to three hours werereported on Thursday night for non-European Union arrivals. More delays at immigration control were seen Friday night, according to UK media reports.
TurnTo23.com - National News Headlines
'Scientists call for a ban on exotic pet markets across the EU to ...
By j adams
A new independent scientific report, released today, has resulted in calls for an EU-wide ban on exotic pet markets to protect animal welfare, public health and biodiversity. Thereport, commissioned by the Animal Protection Agency, ...
world news for life
Italy, Germany planning joint approval of EU deals: report - Latest ...
The report said German lawmakers were due to travel to Italy imminently and Italian ones will go to Berlin to discuss provisions against the debt crisis. German ...
news.ph.msn.com/.../italy-germany-planning-joint-approval-o...
Justice & Home Affairs / Sales of women and girls ... - EU Observer
Human trafficking is booming in Europe, the Hague-based Eurojust, the EU's crime fighting ... Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our newsdirectly in your mailbox. ... But the number of cases brought against traffickers is grossly disproportionate to the number of reported victims. .... Latest news ...
euobserver.com/article/116056
International Development Committee publishes report on EU ...
Too much EU development aid is going to middle income countries, like Turkey ...News; International Development Committee publishes report on EU ... Overall, theEuropean Commission has improved its performance over the last decade ...
www.parliament.uk/.../substantive-eu-dev-report-press-release/
Report: EU Anti-counterfeiting Directive Attracting Industry Praise ...
Report: EU Anti-counterfeiting Directive Attracting Industry Praise, Scorn. Latest News| Posted: 30 April 2012. By Alexander Gaffney. 1 Likes. Join the discussion ...
www.raps.org/.../report-eu-anti-counterfeiting-directive-attract...
Croatia is well on track towards accession to the EU, latest report ...
Croatia is well on track towards accession to the EU, latest report reads. European Commission has adopted its Monitoring Report on Croatia's accession ... Stay up-to-date with diplomatic news — Sign up for DiploNews' email newsletters.
www.diplonews.com/feeds/free/24_April_2012_246.php
EU nuclear Stress tests: Technical report and additional plant visits ...
EU nuclear Stress tests: Technical report and additional plant visits agreed. EUCommissioner Günther Oettinger and Andrej Stritar, Chairperson of ENSREG, ...
www.europeanlawmonitor.org/.../eu-nuclear-stress-tests-techni...
news europe court of auditors of the european union: report on the ...
News Europe : The Court of Auditors of the European Union's report on the ... Thereport also points out delay in project implementation, and the need to re-invest additional funds for some projects to be completed. ... Latest financed projects ...
www.welcomeurope.com/.../court-of-auditors-of-european-un...
EU ministers close to deal on new bank rules - US News and World ...
US News & World Report Politics. Home ... The EU is in the process of writing an international agreement on capital defenses for banks into European law that ...
www.usnews.com/.../disagreements-hamper-eu-deal-on-bank-...
Microsoft says two basic security steps might - CERT-EU News Monitor
News Language: Show news in selected language(s) only. ... The company said in itslatest Security Intelligence Report that though Conficker has faded from ...
cert.europa.eu/.../ComputerWeekly-810142d5987dde59b3e6c...
EU politics — EUbusiness - legal, business and economic news ...
Latest news about European Union politics. ... ahead of the next round of talks over Iran's disputed nuclear programme, officials and reports said on Tuesday.
www.eubusiness.com/topics/politics
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