EU urged to stop unfair state contract wins
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Britain is urging the European Union commission to clamp down on EU states that are bending the rules on the allocation of government contracts, arguing that domestic firms are losing out considerably.
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The European Parliament urged the European Commission Tuesday to propose a law that would force the dismantlement of the current method of distributing online copyright fees to songwriters and musicians in Europe.
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The UK presses the EU for action to stop overfishing of bluefin tuna, which campaigners say is being fuelled by demand for sushi.
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The European Union last night started legal action against Athens after it was revealed that a systematic under-reporting of Greece&#39;s budget deficit should have ruled the country out of joining the single currency.
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Turkey has denounced as &quot;unfair&quot; a European Union decision to slow down its troubled accession talks, but pledged to stick to the path of reform to catch up with EU standards.
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Plans to limit mobile phone call costs for consumers who travel abroad within Europe are attacked by the industry.
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A major donor to the main opposition party said Tuesday he has submitted a legal challenge to the government's decision not to hold a referendum on the new European Union treaty.
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European online gaming companies which  have been shut out of U.S. markets urged the European Union on  Wednesday to demand as much as $100 billion in compensation in  the hope that Washington might yet be pressed into reversing  its ban.
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They are asking the European Union Council to reject this proposal. They claim that software patent directive would be harmful to the European economy.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday called on his fellow European Union leaders to end wrangling over a new EU treaty and concentrate on the bloc's future.
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The EU is to appeal against a World Trade Organisation ruling that its sugar subsidies breach world trade rules.
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Deficit hawks demanded the European Union's battered budget rules be strengthened Friday, while serial violators France and Germany insisted making them more flexible would not weaken the pact.
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Microsoft said Tuesday it has appealed a July fine by the European Commission with the Court of First Instance, the European Union's second highest court. It also called the additional fine unfair, and blasted the EC for being vague.
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The European Union calls for free and fair elections in the Maldives with a parliamentary vote due this month.
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The European Commission has received a  complaint that a disputed levy on electronic gadgets to  compensate for private copying of music distorts the EU's  internal market, a top official at the bloc's executive said.
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Europe's competition commissioner Neelie Kroes is not shy of upsetting big corporate interests, writes Stephen Mulvey.
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British companies have been discriminated in winning lucrative public contracts in European Union countries, according to a report on Monday commissioned by the Treasury.