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February 9, 2012 - Other Developments
According to a senior EU official, the European Union is about to impose tougher sanctions on Syria...
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February 9, 2012 - Financial Services
The EU's Financial Services Commissioner, Michel Barnier, has urged the 27 EU nations to support a financial-transaction tax after nine member states called for the approval of the measure...
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February 9, 2012 - Energy
At the official European Launch of UN's Year on Sustainable Energy for All on 8 February, Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Development, stressed the European Commission's commitment...
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February 9, 2012 - Food / Consumer Policy / Pharmaceuticals
European Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli has called on member states for immediate action to be taken at national level...
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February 9, 2012 - Trade
The 12th EU-India Summit will take place on 10 February, 2012, in New Delhi. The EU will be represented by Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council...
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February 9, 2012 - Competition
The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules the reintroduction of a Spanish scheme to support the financial sector...
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February 8, 2012 - Other Developments
Despite warnings by a number of EU leaders that they could withhold the funds that Greece needs to meet big debt repayments in March, Greek political parties have delayed yet again a decision...
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February 8, 2012 - Financial Services
Financial experts at a European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee hearing on 6 February said that a eurozone financial transaction tax...
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February 8, 2012 - Food / Consumer Policy / Pharmaceuticals
New EU rules for “organic wine” have been agreed in the Standing Committee on Organic Farming (SCOF)...
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February 8, 2012 - Communications / E-Commerce / Data Privacy
A draft law to strengthen the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) was approved by Industry, Research and Energy Committee MEPs on 6 February...
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February 8, 2012 - Competition
The following concentration has been cleared by the European Commission:
Acquisition by Electricité de France S.A of Zespól Elektrocieplowni Wroclawskich Kogeneracja S.A...
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February 7, 2012 - Other Developments
Following the European Commission's decision to include airlines in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) decided to ban...
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February 7, 2012 - Energy
The Nabucco natural gas pipeline, which was designed to lessen Europe’s dependence on Russia’s gas supply, may be displaced by alternative routes...
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February 7, 2012 - Food / Consumer Policy / Pharmaceuticals
The European Parliament's Agriculture Committee has backed a two-year reprieve for the EU's "food for the needy" programme, on which 18 million of the EU's most deprived people rely...
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February 7, 2012 - Trade
The European Commission and the United States have solved one of their most longstanding WTO disputes concerning the US calculation practice of so-called "zeroing" in anti-dumping investigations...
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February 7, 2012 - Competition
The following concentration has been notified to the European Commission:
Kubota/Kverneland - Candidate case for simplified procedure...
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February 6, 2012 - Other Developments
Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurozone group of finance ministers said on 4 February that the possibility of a sovereign default by Greece could not be ruled out...
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February 6, 2012 - Financial Services
In December 2011 the European Banking Authority (EBA) told banks to raise €115 billion in fresh capital by the end of June as part of measures introduced to respond to the eurozone crisis...
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February 6, 2012 - Energy
Russia's Gazprom has acknowledged that it has briefly reduced gas supplies to Europe as a consequence of the extremely cold weather...
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February 6, 2012 - Environment
European citizens are invited to contribute to how research and development for disposing of radioactive waste is being organised at European level...
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