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European Business Summit looks at bloc’s competitiveness
A new survey shows that at least 71 percent of European industry chiefs believe that China will be level or ahead of Europe in technological terms in 10 years’ time. The answer, according to most industrialists and the European Commission, is to increase the competitiveness of European products. But is it…
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Mali receives 3.25 billion euro pledge from EU
International donors signed on the dotted line during a conference in Brussels aimed at supporting the development of Mali. A pledge was…
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France urged to speed up reforms
It was during a joint press conference in Brussels where the European Commission’s Jose Manuel Barroso stood with French President…
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Brussels launches new ‘Emergency Response Centre’
The European Commission has launched its Emergency Response Centre or…
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Europe pledges half a billion euros to Mali reconstruction
The EU is to give Mali half a billion euros to aid its reconstruction…
14/05 17:52 CET -
Bank bailout agency for EU?
The Eurogroup have discussed the creation of a central rescue agency to wind up failing banks, but Germany says a Treaty change would be…
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Demonstrators demand Brussels outlaws fish discards
A coalition of NGOs has organised a demonstration in Brussels calling…
13/05 17:18 CET
Previous editions
- Consumer groups hail EU plan to create ‘right’ to have a bank account
- Iran’s EU envoy slams ‘Israeli’ airstrikes
- Vote: which EU leader has had the most impact on Europe this year?
- EU unwraps new food labelling rules
- Europe faces up to a gloomy year
- Italian PM adds voice to growing chorus against austerity
- European court says Tymoshenko’s rights violated
- EU to ban bee-killing pesticides
- Euroscepticism on the rise, says EU poll
- Amnesty International calls for more protection for asylum seekers
- EU eases oil export embargo on Syria
- EU executive backs membership talks with Serbia
