In 2012, the price level of a comparable basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages was more than twice as high in the most expensive EU27 Member State than in the cheapest one. Denmark had the highest price level for food and ...
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WATERLOO, WI (BRAIN) — Next season Trek Bicycle will own the WorldTour team it has sponsored and supplied for the last three years. The company has agreed with Luxembourg-based team owner Leopard SA to take over ownership of the UCI ...
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Netherlands and France will jointly work for improvement of working conditions in Bangladesh. Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Lilianne Ploumen met French Minister for Foreign Trade Nicole Bricq in Luxembourg and ...
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Turkmenistan hosted an international exhibition 'Textile Industry of Innovation Development in the Era of Power and Happiness' that was organized by the Ministry of Textile Industry and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan ...
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In 2012, 15.2 million foreign citizens worked in the EU27, accounting for 7% of total employment. Among these foreign citizens, 6.6 million were citizens of another EU Member State and 8.6 million were citizens of a country outside the EU. ...
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US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
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Synthetic diamond materials firm Luxembourg-registered Element Six (part of the De Beers Family of Companies, and co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Group4 Labs Inc of Menlo ...
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Ardagh Group has created a 33cl glass bottle for Luxembourg-based Bofferding Brewery’s beer brand. The new bottle for Bofferding Pils with intricate full body engraving features the Bofferding 'B' and its weight has come down to ...
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Regional unemployment rates varied widely across the 270 NUTS 2 regions of the EU27 in 2012, with the lowest rates recorded in the regions of Salzburg and Tirol (both 2.5%) in Austria and Tübingen, Oberbayern and Trier (all 2.7%) in ...
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In the EU27, household electricity prices rose by 6.6% between the second half of 2011 and the second half of 2012, after an increase of 6.3% between the second half of 2010 and 2011. Household gas prices increased by 10.3% in the EU27 ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended his company against charges of aggressive tax avoidance in a hearing in front of a Congressional committee in the US Senate. In a report, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations claimed that ...
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Amazon is the latest tech firm to have question marks hanging over the extent of its business activities that are carried out in the UK. The e-commerce firm, which also owns TV and film streaming service LoveFilm and cloud platform Amazon ...
Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday. The court said that it has referred a case about YouTube embeds to the ...
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OxySure Systems, a US-based emergency oxygen solutions provider, has signed an agreement with Medizon to make it an exclusive distributor for OxySure's products. As per the agreement, Medizon purchases a minimum combined quantity of 2,250 ...
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Hackers are finding it pays to call ahead before sending malware-laden email. Symantec has seen what it describes as a sophisticated social engineering campaign aimed at French-speaking accounting and finance department employees. The ...
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