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• France Telecom loses in European court

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 142
  France Telecom, Europe’s third-largest telecoms group, on Monday lost its court appeal against a European Commission order to repay about €1bn ($1.5bn) of state aid to the French government that Brussels had deemed illegal. The European Commission’s competition department ruled in 2004 that tax concessions ...
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• After 8 years, EU reform comes into force

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Brussels, Dec 1 (DPA) After eight years of rows and soul-searching, the European Union finally managed to reform itself Tuesday as the Lisbon Treaty entered into force.The treaty is meant to make the bloc more transparent and efficient at home and give it greater clout abroad, but it has proved deeply unpopular with ...
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• New Faces in Top European Climate, Environment and Energy Posts

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 724
  Connie Hedegaard of Denmark has been nominated to a new climate action post at the European Commission in Brussels.
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• Zapatero: the left’s last hope?

  
  Gulf Stream Blues — Authority: 456
  Spain’s rather shy, gentle prime minister Jose Luis Zapatero has never been one to seek out the limelight. But with the EU’s top jobs now all handed out, Zapatero has become the lone Socialist voice at the top level of the EU. In fact, the Spanish prime minister may be the last hope of relevance for European ...
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• EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  The European Commission analysis of ACTA’s Internet chapter has leaked, indicating that the U.S. is seeking to push laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current European Union law (the EC posted the existence of the document last week but refused to make it publicly available). The document ...
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• European court mandates France Telecom pay back state aid

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  A European court has denied France Telecoms appeal of a European Commission ruling that it should repay $1.5 billion in state aid. Europes second-highest court, the Court of First Instance, held up the EUs ruling that France Telecom got this aid from 1994 until 2002 via a special tax regime.   Through this special ...
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• Estonias Open Source Shame

  
  open... — Authority: 558
  Last week I wrote about the curious case of Mr Kallas, vice president of the European Commission. He seemed to have problems with the word “open”, imagining that this meant “unprotected”, judging by his comments. I put this down to some linguistic misunderstanding as a result of the distance of the Estonian ...
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• Oracle-Sun: Statements and observations

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 544
  I’ve been trying to dig a bit deeper into the European Commission’s investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, to look beyond the received wisdom about the EC’s concerns about the deal. We know they revolve around the open source MySQL database, the European Commission has said that ...
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• Viviane Redings European Union reign ends

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  For any European service provider the mere mention of the EUs telecom watchdog Viviane Reding brought chills down their spine. However, the Reding reign has now come to an end as it was announced on Friday that she will step down from her current post as Information Society Commissioner to now oversee Justice, ...
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• EU Commissioners’ golden parachutes

  
  Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform — Authority: 152
  The Sunday Times reported on the huge payoffs the 13 EU Commissioners stepping down this week will walk away with, on top of the pretty hefty salaries they netted while in office.Open Europe has calculated that the 13 outgoing EU Commissioners have cos…
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• Outsmarted in Europe

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Telegraph View: Baroness Ashtons appointment came at an extraordinarily high price.
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• EU, China sign agreements on environment, trade

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Nanjing (China), Nov 30 (DPA) Chinese and European Union leaders signed five agreements on trade and environmental technology on Monday as they held a summit focussing on global economic issues and climate change.The one-day summit was co-chaired by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, European Commission President Barroso and ...
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• Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  European Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: can open-source software live up to its populist traditions?
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• Viviane Reding picked to re-write EU data protection laws

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 142
  Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner who for the past five years has championed consumer rights in the telecommunications and IT arenas, has been picked to take charge of a re-write of the European Union’s 15-year-old data protection laws due to start next year. Reding is famous for slashing the cost of ...
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• In praise of… Neelie Kroes

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  So much for the spirit of European co-operation. The scramble for posts in the new EU commission has been as selfish as ever. Each member state has eyed its own advantages. Is a minor portfolio now worth trading for a shot at the European Central Bank presidency later? Or, in Britains case, is a low-profile foreign ...
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• Consumers want to make green choices | Meglena Kuneva

  
  Environment: Ethical and green living | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 112
  The potential of consumers to make a real difference when it comes to fighting climate change should not be wasted There is a forgotten player in the global efforts to limit CO2 emissions: the consumer. Households consume one-third of the final energy used in the European Union and produce around two-thirds of ...
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• EU hearing on Oracle-Sun set for Dec. 10

  
  Seo, Make Money Online and Technology — Authority: 146
  This came from cnet news Oracle is set to meet with European Commission regulators to make its case for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Go to Source
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• Europe of Knowledge

  
  Job Searching Blog — Authority: 126
  Malini Sen reports from Brussels on how the Bologna process is shaping the future of higher education in Europe while aiming to facilitate student  mobility across the globe. ………………….. European higher education is currently going through a major transformation involving more than 5600 ...
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• European Commission urges New Media literacy

  
  Western Journalism.com — Authority: 144
  The European Commission (EC) said on August 20 2009 that Europeans young and old could miss out on the benefits of today’s high-tech information society unless more is done to make them “media literate” enough to access, analyse and evaluate images, sounds and texts and use traditional and new media to ...
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• EU Commission: financial services appointment blow to Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Fears that new commissioner will seek to regulate hedge funds and overhaul banking, insurance and investment regulation A former French foreign minister was today put in charge of the ambitious campaign to regulate Europes markets, banks, and financial services industry – an appointment likely to trigger acute ...
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