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EU approves major state aid scheme for Spanish banksThe European Commission has given six-month approval to a major Spanish government plan to help its banks weather the financial crisis. The European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes recently made the formal announcement. The scheme Kroes should not be Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner  Neelie Kroes, soon to be former European Commissioner for Competition should not be allowed by the European Parliament to be confirmed in her new portfolio, which includes telecoms.
Why? Because when at her personal discretion to Cadbury £550 mln sale of Australian beverages business Cadbury plc announced early last week that it has entered into a conditional agreement with Asahi Breweries, Ltd for the sale of the Schweppes Beverages business in Australia for a total consideration in cash of Where in the world is Tuvalu?  A small Commonwealth island of the south west coast of Australia has created quite a stir at the United Nations talks on Climate Change held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Opel deal in the works after Spanish workers give okay  Workers at the German car company Opel - the European offshoot of US carmaker General Motors (GM) – should know this week whether the future of their group has been secured, although Spanish trade unions EU, Croatia strike deal on shipyards The European Commission and Croatia recently agreed on the restructuring of Croatia’s ailing shipyards, a reform sought by the EU for Zagreb’s European Union entry talks as well as on the launch of their privatisation High Court puts brake on Chrysler-Fiat deal The US Supreme Court delayed the Fiat takeover deal of Chrysler last week in what according to observers could be a serious setback for the third largest American carmaker. In a short and undetailed statement, Intel to sustain EU budget?  The business world knew it was coming, but it still resounded loudly when the European Commission, in a bid to provide computer buyers with more choice, fined US computer chip maker Intel a record 1.06 Transatlantic airline alliances get the EU’s scrutiny  With more and more mergers between airline companies, even as some fail, The European Union said it will launch an anti-trust probe into cooperation deals between members of the Star Alliance and Oneworld airline groups Economic wrestling pits the EU vs. Bundesbank The tension’s getting to everyone it seems, as a war of words erupted between the European Union’s executive and the head of its largest member’s central bank as officials accused one another of “surprising” acts France, Spain, now Italian car plan worries EU  The European Commission said it fears that an Italian plan to support the car industry could break EU rules, officials in Brussels said, just days after they raised similar concerns over French and Spanish schemes A Battle Royal over protectionism splits the EU  With the Czech Republic, the current holders of the European Union presidency fighting with France, European Union finance ministers meeting in Brussels made little progress in their attempts to resolve the credit crunch that has US names climate envoy, signals policy reversal US President Barack Obama on January 26 said the United States was prepared to take a new leading role in confronting the threat of climate change and using renewable energy to help wean the country Slovak Roma await the Euro in poverty - and fear  Shouting each other down, women hurl questions at a rare visitor to their hometown, a destitute Roma ghetto amid picturesque hills of central Slovakia. “My father gets 3,500 koruny. How much is it in Euro?” EU mulls Latvia aid  The European Commission recently indicated it may come to a decision on providing financial support for Latvia soon. “We’ve been in close touch with the Latvian authorities for the past week and those contacts are No banking sector style state aid for EU car-industry  European car industry including Opel may not enjoy benefits of state aid from their parent governments if the statement of the EU officials today (Nov 18) in Brussels are taken as indicators.
The European Union is An American in Europe reaches 100: You like me! You really like me! This week is the 100th An American in Europe column, which is about 99 more than some of you hoped to see, especially my biggest critic in the European Commission who dubbed me an “habitual Commission approves Finnish and Italian schemes  The number of decisions taken by the EU to nod financial schemes of the member states till today crossed the double-digit mark as the European Commission approved Finnish and Italian support schemes to stabilise their Slovakia gets notice to reopen postal competition The European Commission on Tuesday (Oct 7) asked the Slovakia authorities to reopen the postal market in hybrid mail which was closed down after recent amendments to the Slovak law. Addressing journalists, Jonathan Todd, spokesman for Consumer harm in EU and US anti-trust laws  “The suggestion in (New Europe) this decision (to terminate proceedings for anti-competitive behavior in the case of roaming) had anything to do with pursuing Microsoft is totally ludicrous,” said Jonathan Todd, spokesperson for DG Competition NE Dossiers: The Roaming Debacle It is also a matter of honesty and transparency to find out exactly what had happened in the roaming case. On September 10, 2008 the Commission said that in July 2007 (i.e. after it concluded The Latest of the Barroso Commision  The Barroso Commission is getting deeper into a spiral of failure pushing the supreme European institution into the orbit of decay that the European Union has entered after Jacques Delors “Golden Age.” Two failures at European Commission Briefing Transcript The Setup... Transcript - EC Press room Sept. 10th *Note - The incident shows how the Commission feels about this issue. 2 Hours before the press briefing - Spokesperson for DG Competition, Jonathan Todd was emailed DG Competition Protects Industry  The Introduction
For more than ten years, European citizens were paying exorbitant roaming charges, being victims of exploitation of a few mobile operators. The Commission opened an investigation which was to be concluded with heavy penalties EU gives Poland more time to save Solidarity shipyards The European Commission last week called on Poland to repay back a huge amount of state aid it provided to its ailing shipyards, but agreed to give the government more time to come up with a privatisation plan. The Deutsche Post beats EU for a billion Euro  Germany’s former postal monopoly, Deutsche Post (DP,) has won a six-year-old legal battle with the European Commission, after a European Court backed the company’s right to claim up to one billion Euro from the government, The Polish shipyard plan is now in the EU’s hands Poland on June 26 presented the European Commission with a rescue plan for the country’s ailing shipyards. Confirming that it had received a plan on how to privatise the yards at Szczecin, Gdansk and Gdynia, Yummy results for Cadbury, modest second quarter growth Cadbury, the world’s biggest confectionery group, said its second- quarter sales growth is likely to be modestly higher than the seven percent growth in the first quarter. The group, which makes Dairy Milk chocolate and Halls cough drops, said Commission raps Poland over revered Gdansk shipyard  Poland, the “new” member state of the European Union with a continued record of staying in the EU limelight got another stern warning from the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU.With Warsaw dragging Bush goes to Israel, but Gaza attacks continue East this year, backed by the Mideast Quartet that includes the European Union, were rocked a bit when American President George Bush’s visit to Israel was met with renewed rocket attacks from Gaza.Israeli Prime Minister |
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 EU’s Arctic Policy skating on thin ice Morocco needs tougher talk, sweeter carrots Reluctant EU tailors tough bail-out deal for near-bankrupt Greece Greek Lessons for Europe Without homeland, Blair says no hope for Palestinians, peace 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 Military forces from Russia and Ukraine will resume a naval exercise last held seven years On a visit to New Delhi to visit political and business leaders, Russian Prime Minister Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on 10 March won libel damages of GBP 150,000 ($223,000) after 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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