Brussels lets big spenders off the hook
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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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GORDON Brown yesterday fired off yet another political salvo at Brussels, as he dismissed a call from the European Commission to increase its spending limit by 35 per cent.
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With half the European Union countries exceeding public deficit limits this year, the EU&#39;s head office bowed to reality Friday and proposed to be more flexible in how it enforces the budget rules underpinning the euro.
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Driven by Christmas shopping fever and growing hunger for material goods, Europeans in former communist states are putting aside a historic aversion to taking out loans as their spending habits change and a new generation of debtors takes root.
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The European market rules will force deals to be made one country at a time.
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Software on the Seine, anyone? Backup in Budapest? VTL from Vienna? And why not. Europeans have far more experience when it comes to dealing with data regulatory issues than we do.
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The new European Commission hopes to exploit divisions among Europe's richest countries to push through an agreement on the EU's next medium-term spending round as early as next June, officials say.
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Europeâs biggest cross-border financial services deal in recent years was given a significant boost over the weekend when Mario Monti, European Union competition chief, in effect confirmed that EU regulators would approve the Â£8.
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They formed a new bloc in the European Parliament last month and now receive $1.5 million in public funding.
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Brussels on Wednesday tightened the screws on European Union governments that have broken the bloc&#39;s common rules, in a drive to prise open national markets for companies in the gambling, telecommunications and financial services sectors, and the legal profession.
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BRUSSELS Turkey won a victory in Brussels on Wednesday, but it was only a victory of sorts. By recommending that negotiations could begin, the European Union lifted the gates to the vast, poor Muslim nation of 71 million people.
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It is surprising that our Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi has been so prepared to stick his neck out to protect those that were responsible for the purchase of the Brussels property.
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As the bits were beginning to fall off the deal of all deals in early December, officials from both the British and Irish governments were relatively relaxed about picking up the pieces again.
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Travellers carrying more than 10,000 euros will have to declare the cash when entering or leaving the EU, finance ministers decide.
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Belgium steps up security in the capital after a plot to free a jailed al-Qaeda suspect is foiled, officials say.
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Business & money: Â·  European parliament blocks EC initiative Â·  Businesses and unions unite in denunciation
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German Finance Minister Hans Eichel welcomed the decision by the EU Commission to suspend excessive deficit procedures against France and Germany, saying that Brussels recognised that Berlin was making progress ...