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New car sales hit the brakes in Europe as incentive plans hit the end of the road Despite a late surge in sales at the end of 2009, car sales in Europe will still fall by 10% this year as subsidy plans for scrapping old vehicles are withdrawn, stalling a resurgence in When it comes to living, you just can’t beat charming Europe  Ooh-la-lah, much to the consternation of the British, and the Americans, France –for the fifth year in a row – was chosen as the world’s best place to live by the Irish-based International Living magazine, 50 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and the EU Communities  On Tuesday, 17 November, the Mission of Israel to the EU and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, organised an event in Brussels to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and the European Communities. “These Solana says Palestinian state should follow 1967 lines  It was is sure to be a contentious idea that could rile Israel, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said that the future Palestinian state should be established along the 1967 borders, following the GM workers protest against job cuts in Antwerp, EU Some 5,000 Opel workers from Belgium and Germany rallied 24 September in Antwerp to protest against possible job cuts at General Motors' European plants. Participants included trade union officials from other European countries where Opel Germany moves to reassure EU over Opel rescue plan  Germany moved to reassure its European Union partners about its rescue plan for Opel, insisting that it would not violate the bloc's strict rules on state aid. "Every step is being co-ordinated with all of Belgium takes Opel case to next level The question of job safety amid the ongoing recession fears is seemingly brewing a bilateral row between Belgium and Germany. The Belgian authority last week heightened its resistance against German state aid to auto manufacturer Economic recovery in Central and Eastern Europe  The speed and depth of economic recovery for the leading companies of Central and Eastern Europe was top of the agenda for the 19th Krynica Economic Forum held early last week.
The Forum drew participants from EU lays down the law to car manufacturers The European Commission has warned car manufacturers that new types of vehicle cannot be sold on the European market from 2011 unless they comply with requirements to reduce global warming emissions from air conditioning systems. A plan for stability via EU-Japanese collaboration  Each year, business leaders from the European Union and Japan meet in the framework of the EU-Japan Business Round Table (BRT) to discuss key issues affecting both the EU and Japan. This year’s Annual Meeting EU to have standard mobile phone chargers Europe’s avid mobile phone-users will soon be able to empty their drawers of the familiar tangle of chargers after leading manufacturers agreed to make the Micro-USB connector the industry standard. According to a Memorandum of Commission plans to rescue troubled Opel EU Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen said he wants a thorough examination of strategy to save German automaker Opel, which he believes would ultimately benefit Russia. The European Commission cannot allow such a plan to pass The Towering Inferno - an investigation into the Berlaymont fire  As eurocrats scuttled away from the flames, apocalyptic preachers roamed around Schuman quoting the more excitable passages from the Book of Revelations but the emergency services were feeling the pressure, as one senior policeman said, The EU and Fiat wrangle over Opel After setting off an outcry in Germany, Italian carmaker Fiat sparred with a European Union official over its feelers to acquire General Motors’ Opel and Vauxhall brands in Europe at a time when the whole The best and brightest of business come to Brussels As the world reels in disbelief that capitalism almost collapsed – and might yet – some of Europe’s most influential business and political leaders will meet in a suddenly-crucial session March 26 and 27 in EU and US haven’t bailed enough to fight recession Paul Krugman, an American economist and Nobel laureate, said he believes that Europe and the United States should at least double their fiscal efforts in order to salvage the global economy and that their bail-out EIB throws a 3 billion Euro lifeline to EU’s car makers  As Europe’s car makers stumble and fall, some on the edge of extinction, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has moved to save them, approving three billion Euro in loans to right some and see if No lifeline yet for Opel, it wants out from under GM  After a meeting with the heads of the ailing General Motors, German Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said there was no decision in sight on state aid for its offshoot Opel, while officials of the The EU will fight US - or EU - car protectionism The European Commission, noting how some European Union countries are trying to save their own car makers, said it will use the force of law to fight countries which give unfair support to their national EU, Russia discuss energy, spar over human rights  After talks on February 6 with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called on Russia to offer more “reliability” in international relations. Barroso and 9 Commissioners march to Moscow  The bilateral meeting of the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and nine Members of the European Commission –Verheugen, Barrot, Kallas , Tajani, Dimas, Almunia, Ferrero-Waldner, Piebalgs and Ashton- with the highest representatives Struggling carmakers will get government help The French government is ready to spend up to six billion Euro (USD 7.8 billion) to help its beleaguered car industry in light of a grim outlook for the sector in Europe this year, Prime EU ministers want 10 billion Euro for carmakers  As Europe’s car industry struggles with sinking sales as consumers avoid big-ticket purchases in the face of a worldwide recession, European Union industry ministers are trying to find ways to support them, amid calls for Commission presents diluted, delayed pharma package  The European Commission has adopted a much-delayed pharma package but in a much more diluted form than envisaged earlier by the main-stream pharma industry. European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry Gunter Verheugen started the press The long and winding road toward cleaner cars The idea in Europe for gradually reducing automobile emissions began about 13 years ago when the plan was to set goals and reach them by 2012, a timetable pushed back seven more years under a Commission confirms pharma package on Dec 10 The European Commission confirmed on December 5 that the much-delayed "pharma package" will be presented on December 10 as the Commission announced that the College of Commissioners (27 Commissioners) will be discussing it next Wednesday. Commission Autopigs on the Autobahn, America’s SUV gas-guzzlers You can go just about as fast as you want on Germany’s Autobahn, the road with virtually no speed limits because Germans - like Americans - prefer big, fast, gas-guzzling, carbonemitting cars and both countries Commission proposals outline raw material policy  The European Commission today (Nov 4) launched a "long term sustained" approach to make sure that the raw material supplies to Europe do not suffer for different reasons.
Stressing that the EU industrial sector is facing Common EU defence vs. global warming and The Lisbon Treaty’s key  During the 1982 Falklands crisis, Margaret Thatcher reminded that diplomacy without force is like an orchestra without instruments. In this terminology, the EU’s current defence policy resembles an orchestra of deaf musicians with large instruments, CO2 car regulation: riding bikes is not the solution!  Whoever visited Beijing some years ago saw thousands of bicycles on the streets. Nowadays they turned into cars with all the consequences for China. Is the future of Europe’s mobility rather linked to bicycles?
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A few years ago, the European Commission selected the company Hudson/DeWitte & Morel to organize an Assessment Centre for Senior The former leader of the European Tories Conservative party was ejected from after defeating the As Bart Staes, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium and the Group EADS learns the US fix was in for Boeing A Penalty For Missing The Millennium Development Goal? Spinning To Defeat Nuclear disarmament needs stronger leaders Morocco needs tougher talk, sweeter carrots EU’s Arctic Policy skating on thin ice Reluctant EU tailors tough bail-out deal for near-bankrupt Greece Yes to the European Monetary Fund Greek Lessons for Europe Clear and Present Danger: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Surplus Arms and Ammunition 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 oligarch Boris Berezovsky on 10 March won libel damages of GBP 150,000 ($223,000) after 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 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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