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Britain, France at odds as talks get under way on EU budget

Source: The Seattle Times, Nov 22 2012, 7:48pm CST

BRUSSELS — The leaders of Britain and France staked out starkly different visions of Europe’s future Thursday as talks began in Brussels on how much the European Union should be allowed to spend, setting the stage for a long, divisive and possibly i ...

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EU fines Lundbeck, 8 others 146 mln euros for blocking cheaper drugs

Source: CNBC  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:50am CDT

BRUSSELS, June 19 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators fined nine drugmakers a total of 146 million euros ($195.5 million) on Wednesday for blocking the supply of cheaper medicines on the market, with a penalty ...

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Reasons to be cheerful

Source: Economist  |   Jun 19 2013, 4:09am CDT

AMID the hype in the run-up to the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland, some NGO types seemed to have convinced themselves that the leaders would agree to do whatever it took to hunt down tax dodgers and demolish the walls of sec ...

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"There will be quite a battle to come — the French, the British, southern Europe, eastern Europe, we all have our demands ... I don’t know whether it will work out."


Source: The Seattle Times

 
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American Airlines, US Airways seek EU approval for merger

Source: Reuters Mobile  |   Jun 19 2013, 3:29am CDT

BRUSSELS, June 19 (Reuters) - US Airways Group and American Airlines are seeking EU antitrust approval for their planned $11 billion merger, which would create the world's largest carrier. The proposed tie-up, the fourth in the U.S. airline in ...

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Syria crisis: France open to Iran attending Geneva talks

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:36am CDT

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off • Hollande says Iran welcome at Geneva if it is constructive • G8 communique on Syria barely papers over cracks • Violence spills over into Lebanon in clashes in Sidon Your IP address will b ...

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UK has second go at EU listing of Hezbollah

Source: EUobserver.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:25am CDT

BRUSSELS - The UK will have a second go at persuading sceptics to blacklist Hezbollah at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday (19 June). Britain in May filed a proposal to designate the military wing of the Lebanese grou ...

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The Lithuanian EU Presidency - ‘A fresh Baltic breeze’ (LinksDossier)

Source: EurActive.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:19am CDT

Summary This is the first presidency for Lithuania, which is also the first Baltic country to take the EU stint. The two other former Soviet republics, Latvia and Estonia, will assume their presidential du ...

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Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - June 19, 2013

Source: FinFacts  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:15am CDT

They will discuss the role of the European Stability Mechanism — the EU’s rescue fund — in recapitalising banks in a step towards preventing bank failures and rescues affecting the sovereign in future. No firm decision has been made yet, ...

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Summit divisions on Syria persist

Source: Albuquerque Journal  |   Jun 19 2013, 1:57am CDT

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland – President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice Tuesday on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement – yet could ...

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Merkel wants more German spoken in EU (News)

Source: EurActive.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 1:34am CDT

In 2011, English was the source language for 77.04% of all texts submitted to the European Commission's in-house translation services, up from 74.6% in 2009, according to EU figures. By comparison, the position of French has continued to ero ...

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