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<title>EU Politics Today: Latvia Environment News</title>
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<title>Latvia nationalises Parex Bank</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201703877</link>
<pubDate>4 Dec 2008 02:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Last updated: December 4 2008 01:33 The Latvian government is set to increase its stake  ...  long time in a much more benign environment. ...
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<title>EU agrees agriculture policy reforms</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201666597</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 21:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  faster pace,&quot; the spokesman added. Sources said Latvia also opposed the agreement because it wanted  ...  the funding to projects to protect the environment or revitalise rural areas. Ministers agreed on  ...
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<title>Brussels preparing for reshuffle of top jobs</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201661001</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 21:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  EU executive. Of the smaller countries, Greek environment commissioner Stavros Dimas, Czech social affairs head  ...  commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, is reportedly to rejoin Latvia&#39;s diplomatic service, while Swedish foreign minister Carl  ...
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<title>Hawaii soon to be the first state with electric car stations</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201655805</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 20:39 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a zero carbon footprint, and will purchase renewable energy for its charging stations from Hawaiian Electric  ...  newcomers, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania in Gdansk. AFP PHOTO/JOE  ...
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<title>COMPROMISE ON EU CLIMATE PACKAGE &quot;CLOSE&quot;: POLISH PM</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201630192</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 18:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has threatened to veto the whole EU environmental package if a compromise on the cost  ...  newcomers, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania in Gdansk on Saturday.  ...  reduce global greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming at the UN&#39;s next climate summit in  ...
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<title>Four players from top 20 boost line-up for Open tournament</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201629374</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 18:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Palmer said. Given the particularly tough financial environment the tournament has had to operate in,  ...  Juan Carlos Ferrero, will be back. Crowd-pleasing Latvian Ernests Gulbis is also in the field,  ...
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<title>Curbing greenhouse gas emission not to cut developed countries&#39; competitiveness</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201585120</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 14:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  are bound by emission limits by the Kyoto Protocol, fear that further greenhouse gas emission cuts  ...  wants to lead the worldwide fight against global warming by cutting at least 20 percent of  ...  countries including Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic, however, worry that  ...
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<title>Japan set to announce emissions credit deals</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201563687</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 12:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Mechanism (CDM) scheme only, which allows rich-nation polluters to fund emission cut projects in developing  ...  Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Latvia, Shimizu said. It&#39;s basically a buyers&#39; market  ...  cost less due to doubts over their environmental integrity, although the contracts usually have binding  ...
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<title>In abolishing motor vehicle entry permit system in Riga Old Town, environment and democracy are threatened</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201558174</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  entry permit system in Riga Old Town, environment and democracy are threatened Chairman of the  ...  Riga City Council&#39;s Environment Committee Dainis Ivans (Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party) criticizes Regional Development  ...
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<title>Brussels gearing up for reshuffle of top jobs</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201534912</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 08:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  EU executive. Of the smaller countries, Greek environment commissioner Stavros Dimas, Czech social affairs head  ...  commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, is reportedly to rejoin Latvia&#39;s diplomatic service, while Swedish foreign minister Carl  ...
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<title>Farm policy vision fails final EU hurdle</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201500027</link>
<pubDate>3 Dec 2008 04:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it more acceptable. Three countries -- Britain, Latvia and Sweden -- objected to the final  ...  that rewards farmers for producing social and environmental benefits, and that ensures consumers pay fair  ...
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<title>Poland aims for nuclear power plant by 2020: PM</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201291491</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  neighbouring Lithuania. The plan, which also involves Latvia and Estonia, is to replace a Soviet-era  ...  among the greenhouses gases that contribute to global warming. But with more than a century&#39;s worth  ...  conditions to take a large-scale jump into renewable energy sources such as wind farms or hydro-electric  ...
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<title>New EU member states urged to approve EU&#39;s ambitious climate change policies</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201275229</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 01:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia aims to achieve  ...  potential for energy efficiency and use of renewable energy, said the WWF. Committing to the EU  ...
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<title>Financial crisis casts shadow over global climate talks</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=201022228</link>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2008 14:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Boer has said &quot;Climate change is an environmental problem looking for an economic answer.&quot; He  ...  European countries --Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic -- worry the  ...  principle of common but differentiated responsibilities for global warming, calling for developed nations to take the  ...
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