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Few women rule in politics, even at the top of the top – except for the EU Hello, Ida Lupino, wherever you are. Maybe this is all you need to know about how women are still viewed in society, even when they reach the highest levels of achievement in business, politics, the EU approves major state aid scheme for Spanish banks The 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 EU to allow Latvia to subsidize new plant Latvia is free to subsidize the construction of a new power plant aimed at reducing the country’s dependence on gas imported from Russia, the European Commission said in recent statement. The EU executive decided to EU: check Greek state aluminum firm bills The European Union’s executive is to examine the electricity bills of Greek state-owned company Aluminium of Greece (AoG) to determine whether or not it has been given an illegal discount, officials in Brussels said. The EU in Barcelona: help Spanish film industry The European Union’s executive has approved a 576 million euros ($812-million Spanish grant to the country’s film industry, saying that it would help domestic producers survive in the face of competition from the United States. Rethinking our institutions  Rethinking our institutions
The last two weeks have seen a historical high of tensions between political groups in the European Parliament. Most notably, the Greens, Socialists, and ALDE clashed hard with the EPP Group over former 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 Kroes says telecom portfolio was own choice The decision to take on the telecommunication and IT portfolio in the European Commission was made by the Dutch commissioner Neelie Kroes herself, reports the Telegraaf early last week. ‘I was asked to make a The EU Commission goes To The Opera  Opera Software, a small Norwegian company, that has produced an innovative web browser since 1994, has claimed victory in their anti-trust complaint about Microsoft's practice of forcing users of their Windows operating system to use Losing the will and bandwidth to Communicate Europe  Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of (the) Europe(an Commission) has seemingly lost the will to communicate Europe – by either forgetting (doubtful) or neglecting to appoint a Commissioner for Communication.
As it happens, DG Communication Barroso’s Back  Spyros Pappas, lawyer, former Director-General of the European Commission
“I welcome the strengthening of DG Health and Consumers (SANCO) with the integration of pharmaceutical products and cosmetics from DG Enterprise, and Biotechnology, Pesticides and Health from New Porfolios of the Barroso II Commission (updated with countries)  Responsibilities of the Commissioners-designate:
Spain - Joaqu ín ALMUNIA: Competition. Vice-President of the Commission.
Hungary - László ANDOR: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.
UK - Baroness Catherine ASHTON: High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security and History books creak open It’s not every day you get to be a part of major changes in history. For most people it never happens. But being in Brussels sometimes can feel like an overwhelming steamroller paving a new EU launches probe into Hungarian gov’t subsidy for Audi The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Hungarian aid for an investment project of Audi Hungaria Motor Kft. in its existing plant in Gyor, Portfolio Hungary reported early last week. Hungary intends to subsidise ING to sell off insurance following EU pressure Dutch financial services group ING is to split off its insurance activities and continue as a bank following pressure from the European commission over state aid issues. ING announced early last week that it is to 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 Commission fines transformers cartel  THE European Commission on 7 October imposed a €67.6 million fine ($99.5-million) on French, Swiss and Japanese producers of power transformers for forming a market-fixing cartel. Germany’s Siemens also participated in the illegal agreement but EU welcomes Microsoft’s offer ON 7 OCTOBER, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes welcomed plans by Microsoft to offer new Windows users a choice of web browsers as a means of addressing the regulator’s concerns. “I have good grounds for thinking 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 EU hails France opening energy market France has agreed to open up its electricity market in line with European Union demands in a deal that French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said should bring greater competition to supply power to the country’s EU gives okay for Lufthansa-Austrian deal to take off  The European Commission on Friday has approved Lufthansa’s takeover of Austrian Airlines after the German carrier agreed to allow competitors to operate between Vienna and several European destinations. The deal aims to create Europe’s biggest Don’t Mess with Neelie  The total amount of European Union fines slapped on businesses found guilty of violating the bloc’s anti-trust rules since 2004 has exceeded the 10 billion Euro (USD 14 billion) mark, officials in Brussels said. However, EU says bailed-out banks must undergo stress tests  Talk about stress. Banks which have been rescued by the state will have to carry out strict “stress tests” if the European Union is to approve their restructuring, the EU’s executive said as it set Before the Change we need  I may be wrong and biased in saying that The Wall Street Journal is the best-informed and the most serious newspaper in the world, and the fact that it is clearly close to the positions EU fines Germany’s E.ON, France’s GDF Suez 1 bln Euro The European Commission slapped more than one billion Euro in instant fines on two giant gas utility companies on July 7, saying they had been fixing the market. E.ON of Germany and GDF Suez SA Lufthansa takeover of Austrian Airlines gets EU’s eye  The European Commission said it needs more time to study the proposed takeover of Austrian Airlines by the German aviation giant Lufthansa, in a move which could put the project in jeopardy. In a statement, 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 EU gives okay on Swedish guarantee for Volvo The European Commission has approved Sweden’s offer of a state guarantee for Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of US automotive giant Ford, officials said. The guarantees would allow Volvo to access loans from the European Investment Bank recapitalisation gets thumbs up from Commission The European Commission on May 20 has approved, under EC Treaty state aid rules, a Portuguese bank recapitalisation scheme intended to bolster financing of the real economy. The scheme is in line with the Commission's Kroes’s vision of tomorrow for Intel, and others: Obey or Pay Anti-competitive practices are punished hard in times of crises, as witnessed by California-based company Intel. The leading chip-manufacturer was fined an unprecedented 1.06 billion Euro by the Commission which said it had abused its dominant |
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