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		<title>EU keeps tight rein on&#160;bank penalties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 14:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lloyds Banking Group and&#160;Royal Bank of&#160;Scotland should not&#160;count on&#160;securing softer bailout penalties, the&#160;EU’s top&#160;competition enforcer has&#160;warned, as&#160;he expressed confidence the&#160;banks would meet Brussels deadlines for&#160;forced sell-offs. Following speculation that the&#160;state-backed banks might attempt to&#160;revisit the&#160;sanctions imposed for&#160;accepting public money, Joaquín Almunia, the&#160;EU’s competition commissioner, said he&#160;had &#171;no fear&#187; the&#160;commitments would not&#160;be met&#160;on time. High quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen Group makes successful start to&#160;2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales revenue rises 26,3 percent to&#160;€47,3 billion (€37,5 billion) in&#160;first quarter Operating profit up&#160;10,2 percent to&#160;€3,2 billion (€2,9 billion) Global market share of&#160;passenger car&#160;market improves to&#160;12,2 percent (11,9 percent) Automotive Division net&#160;liquidity at&#160;€15,8 billion Volkswagen LogoWolfsburg, 26&#160;April 2012&#160;&#8212; The&#160;Volkswagen Group has&#160;continued its&#160;run of&#160;successes in&#160;the first quarter of&#160;fiscal year 2012. &#171;With the&#160;first quarter we&#160;have had&#160;a clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia posts $1,2 bln&#160;loss in&#160;Q1 as&#160;sales plunge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling cellphone maker Nokia Corp. said Thursday that tougher-than-expected competition pushed it&#160;to a&#160;net loss of&#160;(EURO)929 million ($1,2 billion) in&#160;the first quarter as&#160;sales plummeted, including for&#160;smartphones. The loss compared with a&#160;profit of&#160;(EURO)344 million a&#160;year earlier, while revenue fell 30&#160;percent to&#160;(EURO)7,4 billion from (EURO)10,4 billion in&#160;2011. Net sales of&#160;devices crashed 40&#160;percent to&#160;(EURO)4,2 billion, with smartphone sales dropping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU bonus assault would lead banks astray</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe’s urge to&#160;set a&#160;bonus-to-salary ratio has&#160;always looked misguided. Yet&#160;Brussels’ position is&#160;hardening. The&#160;latest thinking seems to&#160;be that bonuses should never be&#160;more than 100&#160;percent of&#160;base pay. There’s no&#160;doubt that investment banking still has&#160;a problem with the&#160;way it&#160;rewards staff. But&#160;fixing bonuses in&#160;this way&#160;is clearly the&#160;wrong solution. Doubtless, a&#160;political desire to&#160;bring down overall pay&#160;levels lies behind the&#160;moves. But&#160;it is&#160;naïve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU plays down financial impact of&#160;carbon tax&#160;on airlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Develop knowledge and&#160;understanding of&#160;Carbon Capture and&#160;Storage The EU&#8217;s climate commissioner played down the&#160;impact of&#160;the controversial carbon tax&#160;being imposed by&#160;the bloc on&#160;airlines, saying it&#160;will cost less than a&#160;cup of&#160;coffee per&#160;passenger. With the&#160;tax, sharply criticised by&#160;China and&#160;the United States, &#171;a flight from Beijing to&#160;Frankfurt for&#160;example will cost around an&#160;extra two&#160;euros per&#160;passenger,&#187; Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard told the&#160;French [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bakers run&#160;short of&#160;eggs after EU&#160;battery cage ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biscuit and&#160;cake makers across Europe say&#160;they are&#160;having to&#160;cut back on&#160;baking because they are&#160;short of&#160;eggs, and&#160;blame an&#160;EU ban&#160;on cross-border trade in&#160;eggs from small battery cages that are&#160;being phased out. Since the&#160;ban took effect in&#160;January, some suppliers have failed to&#160;meet their contracts because of&#160;the shortage, forcing bakers to&#160;buy eggs from supermarkets to&#160;keep producing, European industry group Caobisco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEU court backs Suzuki in&#160;Volkswagen brand dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The court ruled VW&#160;claimed incorrectly the&#160;Suzuki version could be&#160;confused with its&#160;own high-performance Golf GTI, which it&#160;had trademarked in&#160;Germany and&#160;other international markets Frankfurt: Volkswagen suffered a&#160;legal defeat over its&#160;alleged brand infringement case against estranged partner Suzuki, after the&#160;General Court of&#160;the European Union (EU) ruled on&#160;Wednesday in&#160;favour of&#160;the Japanese carmaker. The ruling comes at&#160;a sensitive time since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France heads EU&#160;showdown with Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[France is&#160;leading other EU&#160;countries in&#160;the charge against Google and&#160;a new&#160;privacy policy put&#160;in place recently. The&#160;French Commission on&#160;Information Technology and&#160;Liberties, known as&#160;CNIL, has&#160;lambasted Google for&#160;moving forward despite requests from European data protection authorities to&#160;delay the&#160;new measures. According to&#160;CNIL, the&#160;new policies violate the&#160;EU privacy protection policy. Google has&#160;recently expanded in&#160;France, having made Paris the&#160;new headquarters for&#160;much of&#160;their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in&#160;Business Row&#160;Re-Opens as&#160;Europe Plans Quotas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quotas for&#160;women in&#160;the boardroom could be&#160;imposed by&#160;the European Union after EU&#160;Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding announced a&#160;drive to&#160;tackle the&#160;underrepresentation of&#160;women &#171;Personally, I&#160;am not&#160;a great fan&#160;of quotas. However, I&#160;like the&#160;results they bring,&#187; Reding said in&#160;a statement. While women make up&#160;the majority of&#160;university graduates in&#160;the EU, this has&#160;failed to&#160;trickle through to&#160;seats in&#160;the boardroom. The&#160;European average for&#160;female representation on&#160;company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU ‘open’ to&#160;talks on&#160;airlines tax, but&#160;won’t change law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EU&#160;officials said Sunday they will negotiate with international partners angry at&#160;what they see&#160;as a&#160;climate tax&#160;on airlines, but&#160;refused to&#160;change hotly disputed legislation despite fears in&#160;Germany. &#171;We have always been open to&#160;continuing discussions on&#160;the possibility of&#160;equivalent measures&#187; outside Europe, Isaac Valero, spokesman for&#160;European Union climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard, told AFP. &#171;This way&#160;we hope to&#160;reach a&#160;global agreement,&#187; [...]]]></description>
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