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EU backs Philippines' move to bring sea dispute to UN
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila / Asia News NetworkMANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) -- The European Parliament has expressed support for the Philippine decision to take China before the United Nations' (UN) arbitral tribunal to settle disputes in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), the...Tags: Arbitration, Parliament, International Law, United Nations, Germany
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British anti-EU party claims Thatcher mantle, has vote hope
Reuters* Farage says his party heir to Thatcher's policies * Points to Canada for model of poll success By Andrew Osborn LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's anti-European Union UK Independence Party said on Tuesday his movement was carrying...Tags: Immigration, United Kingdom, Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Elections
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COLUMN-Carbon market is a political scapegoat: Wynn
Reuters(The author is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.) By Gerard Wynn LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - European lawmakers have made emissions trading a scapegoat as they grapple to compete with far cheaper U.S. energy prices, yet taxes...Tags: Environmental Politics, Prices, Environmental Issues, Parliament, Economy, Business and Finance
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Carbon market is a political scapegoat: Wynn
Reuters(The author is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.) LONDON (Reuters) - European lawmakers have made emissions trading a scapegoat as they grapple to compete with far cheaper U.S. energy prices, yet taxes and other charges dwarf the...Tags: Environmental Politics, Prices, Environmental Issues, Parliament, Economy, Business and Finance
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Europe Parliament likely to approve forced losses on wealthy failed bank depositors
Reuters* EU law to share pain of bank failure could come in 2015 * Lawmaker Hokmark says will shield small deposits By Claire Davenport BRUSSELS, April 23 (Reuters) - The European Parliament's lead negotiator on EU rules for dealing with failing banks said on...Tags: Cyprus, Financially Distressed Companies, Politics, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Finance
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EU Parliament likely to back forced losses on wealthy failed bank depositors
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament is likely to back plans to impose losses on wealthier depositors in failed banks while shielding smaller savers, its lead negotiator on the rules said on Tuesday. Talks are under way to finalize EU rules on...Tags: Cyprus, Politics, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Parliament, Finance
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U.S. should do more on climate change to aid economy-UN's Figueres
Reuters* US has many ways to step up actions-UN climate chief * US climate action has not matched US economic capacity By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, April 23 (Reuters) - The United States should do more to fight climate change and help...Tags: Solar Energy, Environmental Issues, Parliament, White House, Barack Obama
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Margaret Thatcher: Global reactions to passing of 'Iron Lady'
Political leaders past and present reacted Monday to the death of Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, by spotlighting different parts of her global legacy. For some, their careful or brazen words reflected the sharp disagreements...
Tags: United Kingdom, Politics, Labour Party (UK), Gerry Adams , Tony Blair
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Will Europe throw out food found to contain horse meat, or eat it?
Until recently, horse meat butchers, with their store signs featuring a red horse’s head, were commonplace in France, and elsewhere in Europe. And so the news of the equine meat scandal reads a little differently there, where people aren’t...
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Unmaking Europe
"We have made Italy, now we must make Italians," goes the old saying. Today we have made the euro, and the crisis of the euro is unmaking Europeans. People who felt enthusiastically European 10 years ago are reverting to angry national stereotypes....
Tags: Cyprus, Politics, Angela Merkel, University of Oxford, Elections
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Cyprus faces Monday deadline to find $7.5 billion
ATHENS -- The clock began ticking for Cyprus on Thursday when the European Central Bank warned the beleaguered country that it had until Monday to find $7.5 billion needed to qualify for a financial bailout. The stern ultimatum that the European Central...Tags: Cyprus, Cypriot Banking Crisis (2013), Dmitry Medvedev, Finance, Nicosia (Cyprus)
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Swiss curb executive greed, will anyone follow?
William PfaffPARIS -- Switzerland just had a referendum in which it voted to give company and bank shareholders veto rights over the salaries, bonuses and overall compensation packages of senior executives and board directors. Bonuses will be prohibited for...Tags: Personal Income, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Religion and Belief, Banking
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