archive 20·09·2010

cinema

• Estonian snaps up Cartoon d’Or with Crocodile

  For the makers of Europe’s animated films, winning the Cartoon d’Or award at the prestigious… 20/09/10 16:40 CET

corporate

• Bollywood firm expected to bid for MGM

  From Hollywood to Bollywood. In the latest twist in the MGM saga, one of the most famous characters… 20/09/10 20:29 CET

• Nissan’s big plans for China

  Japanese car giant, Nissan, has opened its latest factory in China, declaring it intends to double… 20/09/10 17:11 CET

• Non-European sales boost for Renault

  Renault is en route to sell as many cars outside Europe as within it in just two years… 20/09/10 17:10 CET

• BP notes oil spill payout increase

  BP says payouts to those affected by its Gulf of Mexico oil spill have shot up since an independent… 20/09/10 17:10 CET

economy

• French banks fined over cheque charges

  Some of France’s biggest banks have been fined close to 400 million euros for colluding on charging… 20/09/10 17:10 CET

europa

• GMO cultivation debate heats up for autumn

  The French Department of Gers, a source of the delicacy ‘foie gras’, is proceeding with a legal… 20/09/10 20:24 CET

• Consumer group action in court moves down EU agenda

  US-style group action lawsuits across the EU are no longer order of the day for the European… 20/09/10 20:24 CET

hi-tech

• Building roads from old tyres

  Millions of tons of tyres are thrown away in Europe each year – 3.2 million tons to be exact. And… 20/09/10 16:56 CET

interview

• Juan de Dios Ramirez Heredia, Spanish Roma MEP

  Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia has seen much change in Spain, and along with the Spanish the Roma… 20/09/10 20:33 CET

le mag

• Soviet worker art show in St Petersburg

  Hymn To The Labour at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg showcases some 200 pieces of Soviet-era… 20/09/10 16:56 CET

questions for europe

• Green Jobs: myth or reality?

  We see ‘green jobs’ almost all over Europe, being promoted for growth, sustainable development and… 20/09/10 21:45 CET

• Closer budget coordination for the EU

  As part of the growth and stability pact, the “European Semester” constitutes a new surveillance… 20/09/10 21:45 CET

world news

• Ban: UN millennium goals can be met

  A UN summit to review its Millennium Development Goals has opened in New York with a rallying call… 20/09/10 21:34 CET

• New face of far-right politics in Sweden

  31-year-old Jimmie Akesson is the new face of Sweden’s extreme right. A committed Swedish democrat… 20/09/10 20:06 CET

• Keep spending on aid, Ban tells world leaders

  A UN summit to review its Millenium Development Goals has opened in New York with a rallying call… 20/09/10 19:34 CET

• Bulgarian prosecutors move over institutional child abuse

  Charges of criminal negligence are being prepared in Bulgaria over nearly 200 cases of death and… 20/09/10 19:13 CET

• Police probe woman’s motive for killing spree

  As police in Germany investigate yesterday’s shooting spree in which four people were killed, an… 20/09/10 18:44 CET

• Afghan poll overshadowed by suspected fraud

  A wave of fraud allegations have cast fresh doubt over Afghanistan’s latest parliamentary poll… 20/09/10 18:44 CET

• Russia sacks civil servants to save 1 bln euros

  Russia will sack 20 percent of the country’s public sector workers to save more than one billion… 20/09/10 18:04 CET

• Severe flooding in Italy and Croatia

  Heavy flooding has struck parts of Italy, including the centre of Milan. Firefighters have been… 20/09/10 16:05 CET

• France raises terror alert after foiling planned plot

  France has raised its terror threat to one below the highest after its security services say they… 20/09/10 14:34 CET

• Twenty dead in India train crash

  At least twenty people have been killed and fifty injured after two trains collided in the central… 20/09/10 14:07 CET

• UN set to review millennium goals

  World powers meet in New York on Monday to review the United Nations Millennium Development Goals… 20/09/10 13:34 CET

• Tensions mount in China-Japan dispute

  As anti-Japanese demonstrations are held in Beijing, there is a warning of a deepening crisis in a… 20/09/10 12:46 CET

• Third tunnel being dug to reach Chilean miners

  Rescuers in Chile have begun drilling a third escape tunnel which may be needed to reach 33 miners… 20/09/10 12:41 CET

• Swedish elections mark ‘the end of an era’

  Is Sweden’s love affair with social democracy over? That’s the question Swedish media asked on… 20/09/10 11:34 CET

• Ahmadinejad meets Ban Ki-moon in NY

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being urged to do more to help resolve the row over Iran’s nuclear… 20/09/10 10:44 CET

• BP finally plugs leaking Gulf oil well

  The deep sea well at the centre for the worst US oil spill in history has been plugged once and for… 20/09/10 07:34 CET

• Swedish PM given second term

  Sweden’s prime minister has won re-election but lost his majority. Frederik Reinfeldt becomes the… 20/09/10 07:33 CET

• Ahmadinejad begins New York visit

  Iran’s president has asked the US to release eight Iranian prisoners as a “humanitarian gesture.“… 20/09/10 07:33 CET

• Four dead as German woman runs amok

  A frenzied shooting in a small German town has left four people dead and one police officer… 20/09/10 07:32 CET

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