EU agrees deal to share
banking data with US, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
EU opens fresh membership
talks with Turkey, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
New wave of energy
liberalisation heads for consumers, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
EU agrees to earmark EUR
308m for research institute, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
EU blocks Ryanair takeover
of Aer Lingus, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
Tax take back on the rise in
Europe, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
Talks among key WTO players
collapse, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
France to appeal EU order on
tax-free savings accounts, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
Euro-MPs deal vodka purists
a blow with new definition,EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
European authorities want
more leg room for flyers, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
Britain should compensate
Equitable Life victims: EP, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
European new car demand seen
stalling in 2007, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
EU scraps subsidies on dairy
exports, EU Business Week, 15 June 2007
EU eases way for small
cross-border legal claims, EU Business Week, 15 June 2007
EU extends state aid rules
for film industry, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
EU carbon emissions edge
down, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
Britain wins EU court health
and safety ruling, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
EU hails Google decision on
user data, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
Serbia heralds EU decision
to resume rapprochement talks, EU Business Week, 08 June 2007
EU to tighten rules on
time-share holidays, EU Business Week, 08 June 2007
Court rules against Swedish
alcohol import controls, EU Business Week 08 June 2007
EU tackles back-ache at the
workplace, EU Business Week 08 June 2007
Belgium launches fraud probe
over EU cleaning contract, EU Business Week 08 June 2007
Swiss burrow a hole in the
EU's free cheese trade, EU Business Week 08 June 2007
Fake Chinese, Indian goods
flooding the EU, EU Business Week, 01 June 2007
EU mulling tougher food ad
rules to fight obesity, EU Business Week, 01 June 2007
EU states accused of trying
to hide water pollution, EU Business Week, 01 June 2007
Poles, Czechs to appeal
ruling cutting carbon emissions, EU Business Week, 01 June 2007
Road congestion costs
European nations 1 pct of GDP, EU Business Week, 01 June 2007
British strawberries
threatened by EU worker shortage, EU Business Week, 01 June 2007
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EU agrees deal
to share banking data with US, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
EU nations have agreed a deal setting conditions for US authorities to access
personal information from the interbank transfer service SWIFT for use in
anti-terror investigations.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance/1182960004.87
EU wins US 'guarantees' on SWIFT data transfers
http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance/1183039202.09
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EU opens fresh
membership talks with Turkey, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
The EU has opened membership talks with Turkey in two new policy areas, after
French opposition prevented a third being chapter being included.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Turkey/1182855614.36
Croatia makes steps toward EU membership
http://www.eubusiness.com/Croatia/1182855602.01
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New wave of
energy liberalisation heads for consumers, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
A new wave of energy market liberalisation sweeps across the EU on Sunday when
consumers across the bloc will be allowed to choose their gas and electricity
suppliers.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Energy/1182909602.4
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EU agrees to
earmark EUR 308m for research institute, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
The EU has taken a step closer to setting up its answer to the prestigious
Massachusetts Institute of Technology by budgeting EUR 308.7 million for the
project.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Rd/1182790801.82
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EU blocks
Ryanair takeover of Aer Lingus, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
The EU's top competition watchdog and Ryanair headed for a dogfight in an EU
court as regulators blocked the low-cost carrier's takeover of Irish rival Aer
Lingus.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Competition/1182938401.42
Top
Tax take back
on the rise in Europe, EU Business Week, 29 June 2007
The taxman's take in Europe began creeping back up in 2005, halting a gradual
decline in rates in the world's most highly taxed region, according to an
official EU report.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance/1182866401.93
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Talks among
key WTO players collapse, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
Crunch talks between four key players in the World Trade Organization -- the
United States, the EU, Brazil and India -- on a global trade deal broke down on
Thursday.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Trade/1182438001.65
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France to
appeal EU order on tax-free savings accounts, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
The French government says it will appeal against a Commission order to end the
exclusive distribution of the tax-free savings account "livret A" by La Poste,
the Caisses d'Epargne and Credit Mutuel.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance/1182279614.85
Top
Euro-MPs deal
vodka purists a blow with new definition, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
MEPs dealt a blow on Tuesday to Europe's vodka purists by backing a definition
of the spirit that traditionalists fear would water down their favourite
tipple.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Consumer/1182261628.43
Top
European
authorities want more leg room for flyers, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
Air passengers in Europe could soon be flying in a little more comfort under
plans by the continent's air safety authorities to extend leg room in economy
class.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Transport/1182186009.25
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Britain should
compensate Equitable Life victims: EP, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
Britain should compensate Equitable Life policyholders who were hit by major
losses at the British insurer, according to a European Parliament report on
Monday.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance/1182168015.43
Top
European new
car demand seen stalling in 2007, EU Business Week, 22 June 2007
Demand for new cars will stall this year in the EU amid a broadly mixed market,
says the Acea European carmakers association.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Transport/1182268819.83
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EU scraps
subsidies on dairy exports, EU Business Week, 15 June 2007
The EU is to end all subsidies on dairy exports, almost 40 years after they
were introduced, the Commission announced on Thursday.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Agri/1181840419.29
EU ends maize price guarantee
http://www.eubusiness.com/Agri/1181574018.69
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EU eases way
for small cross-border legal claims, EU Business Week, 15 June 2007
European justice ministers have agreed to smooth the way for people to make
small legal claims across EU borders.
http://www.eubusiness.com/EUlaw/1181743217.3
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EU extends
state aid rules for film industry, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
The Commission on Wednesday extended rules allowing Member States to support
film-makers with public money in the face of an onslaught of popular American
movies.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Media/1181736007.79
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EU carbon
emissions edge down, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
Overall greenhouse-gas emissions by the EU edged downwards in 2005 but rose in
Italy and Spain, which are now badly adrift of their pollution-cutting targets
under Kyoto.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Environ/1181815213.44
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Britain wins
EU court health and safety ruling, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
A European court on Thursday dismissed a legal action brought by the Commission
accusing the British government of breaking its worker health and safety rules.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Employment/1181833201.35
Top
EU hails
Google decision on user data, EU Business Week 15 June 2007
The Union has welcomed a pledge by the operators of Internet search engine
Google to remove information about its users after 18 months to meet European
demands.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Internet/1181739630.7
Top
Serbia heralds
EU decision to resume rapprochement talks , 08 June 2007
Belgrade has welcomed the EU's decision to resume talks with Serbia on closer
ties next week as "extremely positive" for the Balkan country.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Serbia/1181232001.91
EU presses Turkey to pursue reforms
http://www.eubusiness.com/Turkey/1180965601.55
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EU to tighten
rules on time-share holidays, 08 June 2007
The Commission proposed Thursday to shake up rules on time-share holidays in
order to crack down on abuses by plugging loopholes in existing regulations.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Consumer/1181235605.19
Top
Court rules
against Swedish alcohol import controls, 08 June 2007
Swedish wine lovers could crack open the champagne on Tuesday after a European
court ruled that a Swedish ban on individuals importing alcohol was an
unjustified bar to the movement of goods.
http://www.eubusiness.com/EUlaw/1181037607.17
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EU tackles
back-ache at the workplace, 08 June 2007
The Commission is debating whether new laws are needed to help prevent
job-related physical problems like back and muscular pain, which hits around
one in four workers.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Employment/1180980011.16
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Belgium
launches fraud probe over EU cleaning contract, 08 June 2007
Belgian authorities have launched a fraud investigation over a multi-million
euro cleaning contract for EU buildings in Brussels, Europe's Anti-Fraud Office
confirms.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance/1180972802.33
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Swiss burrow a
hole in the EU's free cheese trade, 08 June 2007
A long battle came to a close on 1 June when the EU and non-member Switzerland
formally removed barriers to the trade in cheese, a product that stimulates
national pride and commercial acumen as much as tastebuds.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Food/swiss-cheese.12
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Fake Chinese,
Indian goods flooding the EU, 01 June 2007
Seizures of counterfeit goods, overwhelmingly of Chinese origin, soared at
Europe's borders last year, the European Commission said on Thursday.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Trade/1180620001.4
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EU mulling
tougher food ad rules to fight obesity, 01 June 2007
The Commission is considering tightening food advertising and nutrition
labelling rules if companies fail to improve consumer awareness about unhealthy
foods.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Food/1180526401.83
Top
EU states
accused of trying to hide water pollution, 01 June 2007
The Commission on Thursday expressed concern that some countries are removing
bathing sites from an EU health watch list to try to hide polluted waters.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Environ/1180616428.65
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Poles, Czechs
to appeal ruling cutting carbon emissions, 01 June 2007
Poland and the Czech Republic say they will appeal an EU decision sharply
cutting their carbon dioxide emission quotas for 2008-2012 for industries with
high energy consumption.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Environ/1180123201.49
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Road
congestion costs European nations 1 pct of GDP, 01 June 2007
Road congestion in European countries costs their economies about one per cent
of gross domestic product annually, but building capacity is not the solution,
European transport ministers agreed at a conference in Sofia.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Transport/1180555202.02
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British
strawberries threatened by EU worker shortage, 01 June 2007
Britain's traditional summer dessert of home-grown strawberries and cream could
be off the menu this year due to a shortage of migrant workers from eastern
Europe, the National Farmers' Union warned on Monday.
http://www.eubusiness.com/Employment/1180382408.79