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European Union

Type: Organization

Name: European Union

Nationality: Belgium

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for European Union

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 117 Documents (in Politics)

Herman van Rompuy

The EU Chooses Continuity

A couple quick thoughts on to the new Lisbon-created EU positions. To begin with, despite all the talk the last few months about the 'EU president,' it's clear that the EU heads of state decided to stick with the language of the treaty and . The same ... [World Politics Review - 22 mins ago]

Entities: European Union, Referendum, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Herman van Rompuy, Lisbon Treaty

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 156 Documents (in Politics)

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

US welcomes EU appointments

US president Barack Obama has welcomed the appointment of Belgian prime minister Herman Von Rumpoy as the European Union's first permanent EU president.The Belgian leader was unanimously elected yesterday as the first full-time EU president and Britain's ... [Irish Times - 17 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Taoiseach, Brian Cowen

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 50 Documents

Tony Blair

European Union: Fading presidential ambitions | Editorial

Who do you call when you want to call Europe? After five years of wrangling designed to deal with the Henry Kissinger question, the EU last night failed to provide a satisfactory answer. The first ever president of the European council is to be the haiku-writing ... [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]

Entities: European Union, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 16 Documents

Donald Tusk

'EU choices good for Poland'

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that the choice of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to lead the EU was one that was good for Poland. ... [Poland.pl - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Poland, European Union, Donald Tusk

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 14 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

Oracle Corporation

EU Extends Review Deadline For Oracle's Proposed Takeover Of Sun Micro - Update

TOP MARKET NEWS(RTTNews) - Friday, regulators at the European Union extended the review of Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL: News ) proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (JAVA: News ) until January 27.According to the European Commission, ... [RTTNews.com - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Oracle Corporation, MySQL, European Union, Takeover, Deadline

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 32 Documents

Ashton named EU foreign supremo: diplomats

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Britain's Catherine Ashton was on Thursday named the European Union's new foreign affairs supremo by European leaders meeting in Brussels, two diplomatic sources said."Mrs Ashton has been chosen," one diplomat told AFP."Everything is ... [Yahoo! Canada - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Brussels, European Commissioner, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Herman van Rompuy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 16 hours ago - 8 Documents (in Politics)

China praises EU panel's rejection of shoe duties

The EU's anti-dumping committee voted to reject a European Commission proposal to extend the duties on shoes from China and Vietnam, much to the relief of major retailers. 'That the majority of member states asked for an end to the anti-dumping duties ... [Interactive Investor International - 16 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, China, Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic o..., Vietnam

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 7 Documents

Contest starts for plum EU posts

The race to secure senior jobs in the next European Commission has intensified with the big member states keen to secure the most important economic dossiers ... [FT.com - World, Europe - 7 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, European Commission

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 6 hours ago - 12 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

EU and Oracle Should Just Say We Want Sun Dead

With the way the EU and Oracle are going over the Sun acquisition, maybe it's time to arrange a funeral for Sun -- and MySQL. ... [BNET - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Oracle Corporation, European Union, MySQL

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 19 Documents

Europe names Belgian PM as first president (AFP)

BRUSSELS (AFP) EU leaders on Thursday picked little known Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy as Europe's first president with a mission to give the continent a greater world profile.Catherine Ashton of Britain became the European Union's foreign ... [Yahoo! News - 11/20/2009]

Entities: European Union, Carl Bildt, Pierre de Boissieu, United Kingdom, 2003 invasion of Iraq

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 7 Documents

Low Profile Leaders Chosen for Top European Posts

BRUSSELS Leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday night chose Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as the European Unions first president, and Catherine Ashton of Britain, currently the blocs trade commissioner, as its ... [New York Times - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Foreign Policy, European Union, Lisbon Treaty, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 3 hours ago - 9 Documents

Re: The EU and Global Governance -- By: Iain Murray

It appears I got my transcripts of yesterday's press conference confused. The remarks about global governance were not made by Baroness Ashton -- although she doubtless agrees with them -- but by the new president of Europe himself, Herman Van Rompuy ... [National Review - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Iain Murray, European Union, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

Quotes

...in terms of opportunities for business and greater choice for consumers," and she believes that open markets will "allow the developing world to continue to lift its citizens out of poverty through the dignity of their own labour and the genius of their own ideas"

Letters: Treating dementia [The Independent - 18 mins ago]

...'In the end, he was genuinely divided about whether to go for it,' one ally said. "The final job description wasn't right for him. He is relieved to be out of it. He is doing a lot of good things; he is up and happy."

Blair 'happy to be out of race for Europe job' [The Independent - 25 mins ago]

...4 million tonnes. 'While our total turnover is Rs.5,500 tonnes, our export component accounts for about Rs 1,200 crore,' Bhattacharya said. "While the US and European Union countries are major export destinations for Indian jute products, jute bags for packing cocoa and coffee are sought after in Africa." Turkey and Belgium also import the fibre for manufacturing carpets and South America is another emerging market, he added

Panaji: Jute Council to Focus on Goa to Boost Sales [Daijiworldcom - 27 mins ago]

In a statement on its website on Friday, Hungarian Slager Radio, which was taken off the air on Wednesday, said its owner Emmis "made a difficult decision today, and at present it does not wish to continue analogue broadcast services in Hungary." Late last month Hungary's National Radio and Television Board (ORTT) awarded two commercial frequencies to stations that industry critics and Emmis said...

Emmis to exit Hungary after losing radio licence [Interactive Investor International - 40 mins ago]

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Hymn to Belgium's EU president [Guardian.co.uk - 47 mins ago]
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A woman is often the best man for the job [European Commission - 59 mins ago]
Indian proposals for WTO reforms on ministerial... [Financial Express - 1 hour ago]
Israel's Endless Fear of Demographic Demon [Khaleej Times - 1 hour ago]

Blogs

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European Union: Now to make it work [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 57 mins ago] Are Herman van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton the best of all available choices as the European Union council president and the high representative on foreign policy respectively? ...
EU: The Next Generation (Blast Furnace Canada B... [Progressive Bloggers - 1 hour ago] After what was thought to be a potentially crisis meeting for the current rotating chair of the EU Council Presidency, Sweden's PM Frederik Reinfeldt, the 27 heads ...
Opel introduces updated Corsa ecoFlex with 98 g... [Autoblog Green - 1 hour ago] Filed under: Diesel, MPG, Opel Opel Corsa ecoFlex - click above for high-res image gallery Opel is about to launch a heavily revamped version of the B-segment ...
Intel Labs Europe joins exascale effort [insideHPC - 2 hours ago] CNET News reported yesterday that Intel Labs Europe is joining several other French institutions researching exascale futures The Exascale Computing Research Center ...
Survey says 15% of overall gameplay time is in ... [WoW.com - 3 hours ago] Our friends at Joystiq reported on this fascinating survey by GamesIndustry.com that broke down responses from 13,000 US and EU citizens about how they spend their ...

Audio/Video

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Europe mulls President Van Rompuy [Reuters Video: Top News - 6 hours ago]
New EU Figures Not Household Names [Associated Press - YouTube - 7 hours ago]
WE ARE ASLEEP / PROGRAMMED !!! THEY LIVE !!! SP... [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 8 hours ago]
Chinese Weekly News Review 11/20 [CNN.com - Video - 14 hours ago]
EU's new foreign policy chief speaks to Al Jazeera [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 14 hours ago]

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