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• Europe seeks to extend protection for holidaymakers

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Travellers who book their holiday independently may receive improved financial compensation in the event of poor service or insolvency.
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• A strange wave of anti-Communism in the EU’s corridors of power

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Communist Statue - CC / Flickr I’ve come across this little summary from PressEurop of an article from the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza which looks at comments within the EPP saying that anyone who formerly co-operated with “repressive regimes and undemocratic organizations” be denied the post of ...
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• EU closes antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, doesn’t levy fines

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  Qualcomm has spent an awful lot of time over the past few years dealing with lawsuits and nastygrams, but it looks as if things will be totally different in the new decade. Just months after Qualcomm and Broadcom settled their differences , the European Commission has agreed to drop a four-year antitrust investigation ...
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• EU closes antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, doesn’t levy fines

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
    Qualcomm has spent an awful lot of time over the past few years dealing with lawsuits and nastygrams, but it looks as if things will be totally different in the new decade. Just months after Qualcomm and Broadcom settled their differences , the European Commission has agreed to drop a four-year antitrust ...
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• Council of Europe and EC conference aimed at re-trafficking Romanian children again.

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 500
  By Brian Douglas (Director RCHF) No one will ever forget the Romanian orphanages of the communist times as many thousands of children were left in the care of a communist regime that simply didn’t care for them. After Communism ended in late 1989, the orphanages remained open for the best part of the next decade. ...
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• Kosovo – an captured independence

  
  AriRusilas BalkanPerspective — Authority: 104
  Free movement is one fundamental human rights not only in one’s own country but also abroad. While speaking about Balkans I earlier have highlighted (e.g. “ Forgotten Refugees – West Balkans “) the situation of Serb refugees or IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) who can not return to their original homes ...
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• Leftist Past Clouds Europe’s Choice for the Foreign Affairs Portfolio

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  On Wednesday, several politicians questioned the role once played by Catherine Ashton, the bloc’s new foreign affairs chief, in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain.
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• With this timid choice of leaders, the EU may have the faces it deserves

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The holders of the new top jobs can perfectly represent a Europe that does not dare to project its values as a continent Tintin and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle would command more respect on the world stage." This comment in a readers letter to another newspaper is no doubt horribly unfair – but the appointment of Herman Van ...
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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Benchmarking the mire

  
  The Great E-mancipator — Authority: 412
  One of the documents considered around the Malmo meeting of ministers is the Smarter, Faster, Better eGovernment, 8th Benchmark Measurement report by Capgemini etc for the European Commission. Its available on the Capgemini site . I’ve not taken much notice of the previous seven for the very fact that they ...
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• UN Child Rights Convention: How about online rights?!

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 496
  This past week, "the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – the most universally ratified human rights treaty," the European Commission reports . It adds that "the Convention is the first international legally binding instrument establishing minimum ...
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• France runs into trouble in wrangle for Brussels jobs

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  France has run into opposition over its bid to have a powerful European Commissioner in Brussels who would have been seen as an opponent of the City of London.
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• EU: Advertisers say that new cookie law is met by browser settings

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 152
  The European Parliament today voted to approve the European Commission’s Telecoms Package of reforms. Part of that package of reforms was a change to EU law on the use of cookies. [...] The now-adopted text says that cookies can be stored on a user’s computer, or accessed from that computer, only if the user ...
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• Airport liquid ban to remain until 2013

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  EU could waive 100ml hand luggage restriction where airports upgrade security equipment to detect liquid bombs Millions of air passengers face three more years of having hand cream, shampoo and drinks confiscated at airport security gates under European commission proposals to combat the threat of liquid bombs. The ...
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• All you need to know about the mobile license win for Qualcomm

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 581
  The European Commission reported today that it was closing down an investigation into chip-maker Qualcomm . Four years ago, six major companies reported Qualcomm to the commission , saying it was abusing it’s position in the chip-set market so much that it was damaging the industry. Now those companies have ...
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• European Commission: No 3 Strikes Without Judicial Oversight

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 736
  In file-sharing terms, Spain currently has among the most relaxed laws of leading European countries. The country is believed to have some of the highest rates of online sharing of music and movies and currently it is perfectly legal, providing no money is made directly from infringement, to run BitTorrent and eDonkey ...
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• NEWS: Religion and Workplace Discrimination

  
  Religion Compass Exchanges — Authority: 116
  The European Commission has demanded that the British government amends its legislation relating to discrimination in the workplace. Although discrimination in the workplace was outlawed within the European Union in 2000, Britain did not enshrine this in law until 2003. Furthermore, the British government believed ...
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• New Deadline Set for EU to Rule on Sun-Oracle Merger

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 138
  Ruling Extended Eight Days at Oracle’s Request European Union (EU) regulators extended the deadline for their final decision on Oracle’s plans to buy Sun by eight days. Announced on November 20, this extension was set in place to satisfy a request made by Oracle who is building its rebuttal to the European ...
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• “Blog-dialogues” – European Commission’s Progress Report on Turkey: a Greek view

  
  ELIAMEP Blogs — Authority: 116
  This year’s Progress Report on Turkey, released on the 14th of October, surely came at a critical juncture for Turkey. Over the last year, accession negotiations have been proceeding at a snail’s pace and run the risk of coming to a complete standstill unless there is some substantive progress on Cyprus. In ...
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• EU appointments: visionaries need not apply

  
  Public Affairs 2.0 — Authority: 110
  We live in the age of media celebrity. So no surprise at the critical and sometimes bitter press reaction to the nomination of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton, virtually unknown beyond their own parishes, as Council President and High Representative respectively. As someone said, it was like a TV talent show ...
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