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<title>BAFTA discussion</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192498499</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  video games groups, including: &quot; Martin Houghton-Brown, deputy director of new business, The Children&apos;s Society  ...  set out an ambitious action plan for Government, industry and families to work together to  ...  Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak  ...
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<title>UPDATE 1-EU ministers solve energy liberalisation stand-off</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192496784</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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... LUXEMBOURG, Oct 10 (Reuters) - European energy ministers cleared up final disagreements about liberalising energy  ...  up distribution networks without agreement at a political level. &quot;This is extremely good news for  ...
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<title>Afghan war costs balloon, emerge as election issue</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192495650</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  soundest in the world, followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia. Campaigning in British Columbia, the prime minister boasted that the economic forum report confirmed  ...  seeking to be bailed out and the government won&apos;t be bailing them out.&apos;&apos; He repeated  ...
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<title>Brown calls for world to follow UK&apos;s lead</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192491036</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  case-by-case basis. On Thursday, French, Belgian and Luxembourg Governments agreed to underwrite a guarantee on  ...  back on track. Its lower house of Parliament has agreed an $86 billion lifeboat for  ...  that banking crises only end with significant Government intervention, in the form of nationalisations, blanket  ...
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<title>TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Oil and utilities highlights to 15:45 BST</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192484521</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:39 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Italy, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Italy&apos;s Prime Minister said on Friday there is talk of  ...  at GDF Suez subsidiary Electrabel, with rival politicians clearly opposed to the plan. 2008-10-10 14:55:21  ...  14:55:21 EU ministers solve energy liberalisation stand-off LUXEMBOURG, Oct 10 (Reuters) - European energy ministers  ...
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<title>Crisis exposes U.S.-European financial entanglement</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192480212</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Nicolas Sarkozy, left, confers with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, center, and French Secretary of  ...  joint operation by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on Sept. 27 and 28. France and  ...  the firmest of all, announced Tuesday that government funds would be used to insert liquidity  ...
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<title>Follow my lead, urges Brown</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192479716</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  save the banking system. The British Prime Minister, writing in The Times, urged other governments  ...  never expected to find himself taking a government stake in high-street banks but that Britain  ...  by the governments of Belgium, France and Luxembourg to underwrite all borrowing by the cross-border  ...
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<title>EU agrees on new rules for gas, energy markets - Summary</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192477245</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 15:29 GMT</pubDate>
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... Luxembourg -European Union energy ministers on Friday agreed to new rules for  ...  generators across the EU, unless the national government ruled otherwise, and the EU&apos;s executive, the  ...
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<title>European effort far from united</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192475857</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 14:51 GMT</pubDate>
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... LATE last month, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck was not quite gloating when  ...  ended only with its nationalisation by the Government in February. Late last month, the credit  ...  governments of Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. And then Iceland, whose banks had lent  ...
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<title>EU deadlocked over re-starting Russia talks despite pull-out</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192472793</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 14:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  withdrawal from Georgia, diplomats admitted. EU foreign ministers are set to meet on Monday in Luxembourg for the first formal debate on relations  ...  troops back to pre-war positions. The French government has therefore dropped all reference to a  ...
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<title>EXTRA:EU deadlocked over re-starting Russia talks despite pull-out</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192469757</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 14:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  withdrawal from Georgia, diplomats admitted. EU foreign ministers are set to meet on Monday in Luxembourg for the first formal debate on relations  ...  began. Ahead of Monday&apos;s meeting, the French government, which currently holds the EU&apos;s rotating presidency,  ...
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<title>Green alarm as EU ministers mull climate opt-outs</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192466713</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 14:27 GMT</pubDate>
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... LUXEMBOURG, Oct 10 (Reuters) - France, Germany and  ...  view was backed by British climate change minister Ed Miliband, who said: &quot;The current economic  ...  Financial News. Commodities European Community General news Political news ...
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<title>Commission experts to help Cyprus reduce traffic accidents</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192454253</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 12:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  ministers responsible for transport who convened in Luxembourg on Thursday under the presidency of Dominique  ...  Bussereau for his efforts to reach a political agreement. The Cypriot minister called on the  ...  negotiations that will follow at the European Parliament. On air transport, ministers gave their support  ...
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<title>Brown calls for united global action</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192453607</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 12:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  into its banking system. However, the Prime Minister&apos;s desperate plea for a co-ordinated response seemed  ...  McNulty became the first member of the Government to admit that Britain is heading for  ...  our financial system&apos;. France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg have followed some aspects of Britain&apos;s bank  ...
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<title>US takes on corporate debt as Europe reels with new rescues</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192452910</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 12:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  record falls in many countries. EU finance ministers agreed at a meeting in Luxembourg to increase an EU-wide savings deposit guarantee  ...  debt and the latest move extends the government support. John Ryding, economist at RDQ Economics,  ...
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