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Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | yesterday
Opposition to Free software inside the European Commission comes from familiar directions; Latest example is Siim Kallas, who is close to Microsoft
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, the Council of EU Ministers unanimously approved the EU's telecoms reform package, first proposed by the European Commission in 2007. Today's Council decision comes after a political agreement on the package was reached in a breakthrough meeting between the...
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Christian Today (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The European Commission has called on the UK to end exemptions to equality laws that allow religious employers to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation
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AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Commission today decided to send reasoned opinions to four EU Member States (Luxembourg, Greece, the Czech Republic and Finland) that have failed to notify, or have only partially...
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Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Jamie Doward reports in today’s Observer: The government is being forced by the European commission to rip up controversial exemptions that allow church bodies to refuse to employ homosexual staff. It has emerged that the commission wrote to the government...
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The European Commission has formed a new group in an attempt to regulate companies' growing gathering and use of customers' personal data. The group has been formed to address problems the Commission says are eroding consumer trust. advert: Pinsent Masons...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
• Europe's commitment to tackling poverty questioned • Deal would slash import taxes from Latin America Baroness Ashton, Brussels' new foreign policy chief, was accused yesterday of abandoning Europe's commitment to tackle poverty, as African and Caribbean governments reacted furiously to a proposed deal to end the 16 year "banana wars". Ashton, who is currently European Trade...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The European Commission is putting pressure on the British Government to drop the exemptions from equality legislation by religious organisations who currently have the right to refuse to employ LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) staff.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Sitagliptin (known as Januvia) has been approved by the European Commission as an add-on to insulin (with or without metformin) for people with Type 2 diabetes who cannot control their condition effectively with a combination of diet, physical activity and insulin.
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Cempaka Eco Green (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Reuters , by John Acher, Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:18am EST Greenpeace activists hang banners at the Sagrada Familia Temple, designed by Antoni Gaudi, in Barcelona November 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Albert Gea) COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Sixty-five world leaders have confirmed they will attend a U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December that will try to clinch a new global climate deal, and many more are considering,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Spokesman says trade commissioner has not yet decided whether to attend crucial World Trade Organisation meeting after her unexpected elevation to foreign policy role Trade commissioner BaronessBaroness Ashton will take up her duties as Europe's new foreign policy chief on 1 December, halfway through a critical summit of world trade ministers in Geneva, and will be without a permanent replacement...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB The EU’s appointments of the Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy (what comical names these foreigners do have!) as permanent Chairman (”President”) of the European Council, and (subject to the approval of the European Parliament) of the EU’s (British) Commissioner for Trade, Baroness (Cathy) Ashton, as High Representative for Foreign Affairs...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a byzantine Brussels stitch-up, the appointment to one of the grandest jobs in the European Union was settled by text message. Early on Thursday evening Baroness Ashton, an obscure Labour quangocrat, received a text message from her mentor, Jose Manuel Barroso, the chairman of the European commission.
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
The allowed fishing of turbot in the Black Sea for Bulgaria was lowered by 2 tons by the European Commission. The 2010 quota will be 48 tons, down from the currently allowed 50 tons (100 for Bulgaria and Romania together), but this is still much more lenient than the previous EC proposal for a reduction of 24% or 12 tons per country. The information was reported Saturday by the Bulgarian Agriculture...
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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Subject to approval by the European Parliament, Labour's Cathy Ashton will be replacing Sweden's Margot Wallstrom as Vice-President of the European Commission, Austria's Benita Ferrero-Waldner as European Commissioner for External Affairs and Spain's Javier Solana as High Representative for the Common Foreign & Security Policy. That was a bit of a surprise- although on Thursday, Daily Telegraph...
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gredia | 03/09/2009
The GREDIA research project partly funded by the European Commission has just completed, making available to the Grid community tools that can be used for building and improving Grid applications. Mentioning just a few we have released: - APPEA: A user-friendly Grid application development platform - DRLS: A Distributed Replica Location Service for searching multimedia content, based on P2P overlay...
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ifp | 04/08/2009
A new report on land use in France shows just why many international buyers view France as an attractive place to buy a rural retreat. The report* from the European Commission classifies only 5% of the surface area of the country as ‘urban land’. The vast majority of the country is composed of either agricultural land (60%), or forest and other natural space (34%). The balance is made up of semi-humid
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xtoff | 16/03/2009
A delegation of Europe + Foundation, led by former French Prime Minister, and French Senator Jean-Pierre Raffarin presented to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, its working papers on how to strengthen the European market’s attractiveness for investments, technologies and skills. The Europe + Foundation organises the 7th annual edition of the World Investment Conference. Europe