As announced a couple of weeks ago, the European Union is getting ready to review its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, and with it the mandatory recycling targets set for packaging across the 27 member states. This is part of a ...
Google's rivals have been given one month to assess the search giant's proposed antitrust remedies, the European Commission announced Thursday. The Commission, the E.U.'s regulatory and executive body, has published Google's proposals to ...
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The three-year blockade against donations to WikiLeaks may have just been chiseled away, in Iceland, by a ruling handed down by the European country's Supreme Court. The verdict, handed down Wednesday, says that the Visa subcontractor ...
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European Union politicians are at loggerheads following a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday that rejected proposals to store and share information on airline passengers. The Parliament's civil liberties committee voted against ...
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The European Commission (EC) may oblige Luxembourg-headquartered steelmaker Aperam, which is bidding to buy Outokumpu's Italian stainless steel plant in Terni, to sell other steel assets if it succeeds in the acquisition bid, a commission ...
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The European Commission has approved Sanofi Pasteur's 6-in-1 pediatric vaccine Hexyon/Hexacima (DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB vaccine) for primary and booster vaccination of infants from six weeks of age. The EC decision follows the European ...
Tags: Pediatric Vaccine, Medicine
High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
Tags: GFK Consumer Climate, unemployment
US stocks ended a tumultuous day with strong gains after a false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged Tuesday ...
Tags: US Markets, Reel on False
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Belgium-based ingredients manufacturer Puratos have entered into a loan contract for €45m that will be used for Puratos European research and development program until 2015. Puratos is involved ...
Tags: Ingredient Research Program, Food
The European Commission said it has launched a formal investigation into a group of smartcard chip suppliers who are suspected of breaking the European Union's antitrust laws by operating a cartel, and has sent letters detailing its ...
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The levels of acrylamide and furan in UK foods do not increase concern about the risk to human health, according to a new study conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). For the study, nearly samples from 300 products were collected ...
Tags: Acrylamide, Furan
Microsoft increased revenue across all its divisions in its third fiscal quarter, achieving an almost 20 percent revenue increase year on year. For the quarter ended March 31, 2013, Microsoft generated revenue of US$20.5 billion, up 18 ...
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The first results of substance evaluation done by the Member States were concluded at the end of February. 17 Member States evaluated all together 36 substances in 2012 and in 32 cases they propose to ask the registrants to provide more ...
Tags: ECHA Members, Apparel
The EU and Japan finished the first week-long round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) less than a month after negotiations were officially launched. The EU team is headed up by Mauro Petriccione, Director in the European ...
Tags: Textile
Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu has informed Italy's Ministry of Economic Developement that it has received three purchase offers for Terni-based Italian stainless mill Acciai Speciali Terni (AST), according to local Italian ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Mill, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy