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BP, Rosneft give up on East Schmidt in Sakhalin-5 UK oil major BP and its Russian partner Rosneft have given up the license for the East Shmidt Block, in the Sakhalin-5 development area, news agencies reported.
After conducting more than 4,400 kilometers of seismic study, February 11 - Today in History  The spiritual life of Europe changed today, in 1531, when Henry VIII became head of the Church of England, in 1790 the Quakers petitioned the US Congress to abolish slavery, the response wasn´t too positive, Google makes first TV appearance  Last night’s Super Bowl game marked Internet search engine Google’s debut onto the television advertising market. Top executives at the company had hinted on Twitter a couple days prior to the game that they would Ganging up on Google  As Google’s profits skyrocket, newspaper and magazine publishers in Germany filed a complaint with a competition regulator there charging that the US-based search-engine giant has unfairly profited from taking their news content to generate advertising Meet the Vice-Presidents  On September 3 as many parliaments around Europe prepare to be unsettled (see elections in Germany, Austria, Greece and Romania but to name a few) the European Parliament buildings started forming their firm foundations for Is Google killing off the newspapers?  William Echikson is Google’s Senior Manager for Communications based in Brussels. He is a veteran European correspondent, writing over the past two and a half decades for a series of international publications including the Christian Greenland moves to a break-away from Denmark Greenland is set to gain more autonomy within Denmark after a strong majority of voters approved an enhanced self-rule plan, election results showed on November 26. Roughly 75 percent of voters voted yes to the MEPs want Internet firms to have a human code Saying that, “Privacy protection in authoritarian states is a matter of life or death,” Jules Maaten, a Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, joined with seven colleagues to send letters to the major Long-term energy strategy The Luxembourg’s Chambre de Commerce in Kirchberg (a quarter in north-eastern Luxembourg City) on October 29 hosted a full-day’s conference entitled EU-Russia Energy Dialogue: towards a Strategic Partnership. The event took the form of official Long-term energy strategy The Luxembourg’s Chambre de Commerce in Kirchberg (a quarter in north-eastern Luxembourg City) on October 29 hosted a full-day’s conference entitled EU-Russia Energy Dialogue: towards a Strategic Partnership. The event took the form of official Oil tycoon Khodorkovsky requests parole Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky applied for parole on July 16, gambling on a reprieve under Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev, his lawyer told journalists in Moscow. “It took all our strength to convince Mikhail Borisovich (Khodorkovsky) to take ECB in a state of “heightened alertness” on inflation  European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet told Members of the European Parliament in a hearing that it was “possible” a small increase in interest rates would be made the first week of July to ensure Commission gets a new head in Denmark The European Commission has announced that Jan Host Schmidt will be the new Head of Representation in Denmark. Schmidt is an experienced, senior Commission official who joined the Commission in July 1989 as the Deputy Bush gets no respect from Germany Already suffering record-low approval – or disapproval – ratings at home, US President George Bush is finding that in some quarters, he is no friend of Europe either, mainly due to the six-year-long war in ECB gets a heap of praise for handling turmoil  The European Central Bank has done “excellent work” in managing the financial turmoil, enhancing its reputation, the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee said in its annual report on the ECB which was adopted Economic uncertainty likely to stay a while  European Central Bank Vice-President Lucas Papademos told the European Parliament’s Economic Committee that there remains an uncertain outlook for growth and inflation and that shaky banking conditions are likely to stay a while. Presenting the Diesel users may lose their tax break at the pump Minimum taxes for diesel should rise to equal petrol tax minimums, the European Parliament has said. The current EU-wide minimum rate of tax on diesel should be increased to match the current minimum rate for EU double clicks way for Google deal  The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of the online advertising technology company DoubleClick by Google, both from the US. Following the clearance, Google said that it had completed BayernLB bank president takes the tumble for losses Werner Schmidt, 64, chief executive of BayernLB, a leading German state-run bank which has been caught up in the US sub-prime loans crisis, resigned during a board meeting on February 19, sources in Munich said. Filling it up with diesel could cost more in taxes The current EU-wide minimum rate of tax on diesel should be increased to match the current minimum rate for unleaded petrol, but no further, said MEPs in the Economics Committee. They also want to set European youngsters deal with History in Europe Jan Figel, the European commissioner for education, training, culture and youth on January 22 welcomed a delegation of six alumni from the EUSTORY summit in Warsaw to Brussels to hand over their position paper. The Schmidt found violating smoking ban  Just recently, a non-smoker group filed a criminal complaint against Helmut Schmidt for defying Germany’s new smoking ban. Schmidt is a former chancellor of Germany. As German leader 1974-1982, Schmidt retains a lifetime pension and Premier puts together his coalition government  Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has begun work to form a new government platform after he won his third election in a row. But he’ll have to keep together an unlikely coalition.Despite dropping six seats And Danish politicians say they like the deal Danish political parties with the exception of the populist Danish People’s Party welcomed the European Union agreement on a new treaty aimed at enabling decision-making in the enlarged bloc. “This is a really good result. German engineer released from Afghanistan According to security sources in Kabul, German engineer Rudolf Blechschmidt departed for home on October 11 after being freed from nearly three months of captivity in Afghanistan. Blechschmidt, 62, left Afghanistan a day after being Russia and US square off over missiles again  Almost 45 years to the day that the Cuban missile crisis started in 1962, the defence and foreign ministers of Russia and the United States are due to continue talks on Washington’s controversial plans for Six are nominated for Sakharov human rights prize  The names of five nominees – From Turkey, China, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Russia - for this year’s European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought were unveiled September 11 at a joint meeting of the Premier’s party still leading at the polls  According to a poll by Catinet Research released by Ritzau, the Left, Liberal Party of Denmark (V) holds a steady level of public support. Nearly 28 percent of respondents would vote for the governing party Another delegation goes to look at Darfur A group of lawmakers from the European Parliament hopes its visit to Darfur from June 30-July 6 will enable them to see first-hand the extent of the reported suffering there by refugees from a four-year Drug-resistant TB and bacteria pose threat In what was dubbed as the first overview of its kind, a joint European health agency on June 7 reported on the extent of 49 infectious diseases ranging from measles to tuberculosis to sexually-transmitted infections |
It is said that a week is a long time in politics and this week has been as long as The Commission are sometimes accused of making propaganda, especially when engaging with children, but their Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the A GMO hot potato Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes Mr. Papandreou goes to Washington Suffer Little Children There more barriers in Ukraine than in Europe Farage to Belgium: I'm sorry; but he's not apologizing to Van Rompuy Architecture in Europe David Cameron and the Rumble in the Jungle Nazi Gold starts a German-Greek war of words France tells Serbia to get over it, Kosovo is gone Banks can create and destroy -... Banks can create money. This time-cherished truth opened the way to the last credit crisis, which still threatens the world Down with the bankers, loan sharks... Europeans have rightfully blamed greedy American bankers whose blood lust for money caused the worldwide recession that put scores of EU says ok to Greek deficit... After the European Union once again delayed any decision on whether to bail out Greece as the country struggles to Farage To Belgium: "I'm Sorry"... Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader spoke about being Spanish Presidency plan for electric... Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, has pledged to present a World unites in Haiti aid effort:... With the whole world watching, as Haiti tries to recover from the 7-richter earthquake that has reportedly killed 50,000, a Although the European Parliament dealt a surprise defeat to an EU-US deal that would have allowed American investigators to look US President Barack Obama on 16 February announced $8 billion worth of loan guarantees to In what is gearing up to be the event of the Defense calendar 2010, UK Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit The Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania said on 24 February that they remained to be convinced that the sale Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said his country is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran Russia’s justice system is still mired in violence and arbitrariness, despite reforms promised by Kremlin Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marked the halfway point of his four-year term in office on Will China redefine great power politics?
China is presenting its ascent not as a power shift, but as a paradigm shift. The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas |
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