EU gives up on 'metric Britain'
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The European Union is abandoning plans to force Britain to phase out the imperial measurement system.
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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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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- European officials decided yesterday to disregard proposals to declare huge stretches of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives can be worked out to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.
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Gordon Brown has rejected renewed calls from the Conservatives for a national vote on the new European treaty.  Your views?
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The European Commission has abandoned plans to ban the use of pints, pounds and miles, imperial measures used in Britain and Ireland in the face of overwhelming public opinion, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Brussels' 50-year commitment to free competition has been dropped from a draft treaty to reform the EU.
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The European Commission has stopped  the clock on its review of Microsoft and Time Warner's purchase  of U.S. anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a spokesman  for the EU executive said on Tuesday.
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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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Media Lab Europe, a high-tech research center founded by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced Friday that it is closing because it's run out of money.
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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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A compromise deal to save the next European Commission was today rejected by European parliament leaders who want an anti-gay member of the new team axed.
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Â· Some states 'in denial' over constitution  Â· Barroso rejects Ã  la carte Europe of exemptions
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The EC ends action against France and Germany for breaching eurozone deficit rules as the two members vow to cut their 2005 deficits.
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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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9.15am: The BBC has closed a Â£2bn deal with Siemens Business Services for the contracting out of its technology wing. The ten-year Technology Framework Contract, approved by the government, will see the corporation save an estimated Â£30m a year.
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The wait continues The European Commission has decided to drag out its investigation of Google's proposed DoubleClick purchase.â¦
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One of the last remaining obstacles to Liverpool's plan to build a new 60,000-seat stadium has been removed with the club being awarded a key grant from the European Union (EU).