Pints all round: EU abandons plans to ban imperial measurements
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The European Commission on Tuesday announced it had abandoned plans to ban the use of pints, pounds and miles in Britain and Ireland, in the face of overwhelming public opposition.
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BRUSSELS - The British and the Irish can still down a pint of beer, walk a mile, covet an ounce of gold, and eat a pound of bananas after the European Union ruled yesterday that the countries could retain measurements dating to the Middle Ages.
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Bows to pressure groups The UK Government has dropped controversial proposals that critics said would have neutered the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Changes to the charging structure that would have allowed bodies to refuse more requests will not now go ahead.â¦
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Government has abandoned plans for pre-9pm TV advertsing ban as part of its new anti-obesity strategy
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Nous crachons sur la baie noire - tool of Anglo spies French ministers and other government bigwigs (perruques-grands?) will no longer be allowed to use BlackBerries, in sharp contrast to British MPs.â¦
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The European and American sponsors of a resolution on Kosovoâs independence withdrew the measure today.
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The European Commission today abandoned demands for the closure of key British cod fisheries in a compromise deal designed to preserve both dwindling cod stocks and the UK&#39;s struggling fishing industry.
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The European Commission on Tuesday announced it had abandoned plans to ban the use of pints, pounds and miles in Britain and Ireland, in the face of overwhelming public opinion.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The European Union will consider banning the  swastika and other Nazi symbols next week after British Prince  Harry was photographed wearing a swastika armband to a fancy  dress party.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium &#151; A penny saved may no longer be a penny earned in parts of Europe. Following the lead of Finland, Belgium and the Netherlands have moved to ditch their one- and two-cent coins, whose purchasing power and size been deemed untenably tiny.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Commission said Wednesday it had dropped its antitrust investigation into mobile phone roaming prices charged by operators in Britain and Germany after new EU rules forcing telecom companies to cut the cost of using mobile phones abroad.
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EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling on Tuesday over new rules for organic farming and came up with a labelling system that will tell consumers exactly what they are buying on the supermarket shelves.
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European Union ministers have decided to disregard proposals to declare huge swathes of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives could be worked out to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.
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Pints all round as EU crumples before imperial forces The EU will abandon all pretentions to enforce its filthy metric system on Britain, thereby guaranteeing once-and-for-all an Englishman's right to sup ale in pints, buy spuds by the pound, and measure the distance between the greengrocer and the boozer in miles.â¦
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The European Commission yesterday abandoned efforts to punish France and Germany for breach of the stability and growth pact, offering to turn a blind eye to abuse of EU spending rules.
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Major UK retailers plan to stop adding harmful trans-fats to their own-brand products.
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LONDON, Jan 29 (IPS) - The European Parliament passed a unanimous   resolution this week urging a Europe-wide ban on incitement to  racial and  religious hatred. That specifically could include a  ban on the swastika,  the symbol adopted by the Nazis.