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  • EU advocates going green 25 Nov 2009 05:20 GMT
    ... carbon form by the early 2020s, the European Commission said. The European Commission on Tuesday announced ... the need to focus on making "the EU a smarter, greener social market." The European ... competitive and connected green economy in the European Union. The European Commission said it anticipates higher ...

  • EU backs greater rights for users 25 Nov 2009 10:15 GMT
    ... Strasbourg - The European parliament approved on Tuesday a major overhaul of EU telecoms law aimed at boosting the rights of European cellphone ... and so bring down prices. - AFP Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise ...

  • EU 2020 consultation marks Brussels' return to policy and substance 25 Nov 2009 09:54 GMT
    ... EU 2020 consultation marks Brussels’ return to policy and substance ... a commentary posted on Blogactiv. "Today, the European Commission is launching a consultation on the EU ... ageing continent, profoundly impacting fiscal sustainability and social security systems; the need for a more ...

  • EU launches consultation on ten-year strategy 25 Nov 2009 08:48 GMT
    ... number of themes as drivers of the EU in 2020. It highlights the need to create value by ... new ten-year strategy came under fire from social NGOs yesterday (24 November), amid fears that ... level. Arnaldo Abruzzini, Eurochambres secretary-general, said the European Commission should adopt a "carrot and stick" approach ...

  • Scant optimism about Gruevski ' Papandreou meeting 25 Nov 2009 07:54 GMT
    ... meeting there would be a solution. The European Commission has recommended that a starting date be ... negotiations with Macedonia on it joining the European Union, but it is widely held that progress ... Gruevski the message that his counterpart’s country’s EU prospects depended on a solution based on ...

  • Pressure on Barroso to deliver high profile posts 25 Nov 2009 01:53 GMT
    ... EU LEADERS have intensified pressure on European Commission president José Manuel Barroso over his assignment ... of portfolios, Mr Barroso suggested to the European Parliament that EU leaders were campaigning for preferred ...

  • German envoy: India must be anchor of stability in a rough neighbourhood 25 Nov 2009 08:52 GMT
    ... more than two degrees by 2050. The European Union has vowed to slash its emissions by 20 per ... domestic stability and achieve sustainable economic and social development, and support the improvement and growth ... German envoy insists that the European Union (EU) has an open mind on welcoming new ...

  • Bosnian Leaders Ponder New Western Proposal 25 Nov 2009 09:15 GMT
    ... of constitutional changes offered to them by European Union and US negotiators, in their latest attempt to help ... and as such is unacceptable to the Social Democratic Party (SDP),” said the main opposition ... September and October behind closed by top EU and US officials, in an attempt to ...

  • Why Blair lost 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... and a capable but little-known Belgian, the EU's 27 leaders settled on Herman Van Rompuy, a man ... prefers a more consensual approach with economic social partners. And several, like presidential candidate Jean-Claude ... former prime minister, as president of the European Commission, the EU's executive arm. There was also ...

  • EP to question Füle about his communist past 25 Nov 2009 08:59 GMT
    ... Party (EPP) will ask Czech candidate for EU commissioner Stefan Fuele about his communist past during his ... communist past during his hearing in the European Parliament, Czech MEP Jan Brezina (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) ... said about Fuele. MEP Libor Roucek (Czech Social Democrats, CSSD) said he believes Fuele's past ...

  • RMB rate fine-tuning is possible 25 Nov 2009 01:52 GMT
    ... Minister Jean-Claude Juncker; and Joaquin Almunia, the EU's commissioner for economic and monetary affairs. The summit, ... in 1998, will be co-chaired by Wen, European Commission President Jos Manuel Barroso and Swedish Prime ... European studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. ...

  • Poor...but not broken 25 Nov 2009 06:17 GMT
    ... "Where is the political outrage?" asks University of ... the Great Depression. "What happened to the social safety net that the generations after the ... and the nation's new membership in the European Union. With fewer skilled jobs around, the major source ...

  • Macedonia, Greece meet over 'name dispute' 25 Nov 2009 10:30 GMT
    ... Greece not to veto a decision by EU foreign ministers, due on 7 December, to set a ... need to inform as soon as possible European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, with whom he ... post from 2002 to 2006, when the Social Democrats were in power. According to press ...

  • Troops deployed after massacre 25 Nov 2009 00:46 GMT
    ... Saniag, The Philippines - The Philippines declared a ... reports at least 12 reporters died. The European Union condemned the killings as "barbaric" while the Press ... cows," he told ABS-CBN television. - Sapa-AFP Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise ...

  • French official meets Chinese Tibetologists 25 Nov 2009 06:51 GMT
    ... PARIS, Nov 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX News ... said Tibet has made remarkable achievements in social and economic development since the democratic reform ... Chinese Tibetologists on what France and the European Union can do to help develop Tibet. He also asked ...


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