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<title>Energy Trading Oversight Awakens from its Slumber with Anticipated BP Settlement</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192603129</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 09:22 GMT</pubDate>
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...  lack of transparency is of such growing concern that it was discussed at the European Union&apos;s Lisbon summit last week. It is no surprise that a number of OPEC members, as  ...
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<title>Austria&apos;s Social Democrats eye poll win</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192597773</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 08:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on immigration or opposing the European Unions Lisbon treaty. In his latest campaign, Mr Dichand  ...  Faymann pledged to hold referendums on future EU treaties. This marked a shift in the  ...
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<title>EU pressures Ireland over Treaty vote</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551802</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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... EU steps up pressure on Ireland to hold second Lisbon Treaty referendum European Union officials, Euro-MPs and high-level diplomatic contacts are stepping up the pressure on an increasingly  ...
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<title>Portuguese parliament votes down gay marriage</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192523351</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  17 voters. Both parties had said the Portuguese constitution provides equal rights for all and  ...   allow gay marriage. Two lesbians in Portugal tried to marry two years ago, but  ...  years ago, but registry office officials in Lisbon refused to allow the union, saying the  ...
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<title>FYROM Recognizes Kosovo</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192521001</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  two neighbouring countries recognizing Kosovo, along with Portugal on Tuesday, was really good news for  ...  the USA and the majority of the EU member states, have recognized Kosovo as an  ...
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<title>MEPs flying the flag for Europe</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192513381</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 18:32 GMT</pubDate>
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... Members of the European Parliament have been flying the flag for the EU banner, anthem and motto. At a plenary  ...  from the text of the Treaty of Lisbon. The symbols had been included in the  ...
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<title>EU pressures Ireland over Lisbon Treaty vote</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192511490</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... EU steps up pressure on Ireland to hold second Lisbon Treaty referendum European Union officials, Euro-MPs and high-level diplomatic contacts are stepping up the pressure on an increasingly  ...
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<title>EU pressures Ireland to repeat Lisbon Treaty referendum</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192508573</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 18:27 GMT</pubDate>
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... EU steps up pressure on Ireland to hold second Lisbon Treaty referendum European Union officials, Euro-MPs and high-level diplomatic contacts are stepping up the pressure on an increasingly  ...
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<title>Customers &apos;In for It&apos; Says Madrid Debt Collector</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192502308</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 17:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  spread throughout Spain and an office in Portugal, commercial director Juan Carlos Granda said. The  ...  construction industry, unemployment is running at an EU-high of 11.3 percent and inflation is at  ...
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<title>More hostility from EU towards Ireland</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192501058</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of Cowen&apos;s coalition was how to sell Lisbon Mark II to their electorate. While the  ...  temporarily away from trying to rescue the EU reform treaty that Irish voters mortally wounded  ...
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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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...  and has the enthusiastic support of the European Commission, who considers the new system to be  ...  Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,  ...
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<title>Georgia should not become another Northern Cyprus, minister says</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192497316</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  attempt... It may be remarkable to see EU monitors in Stalin&apos;s old home town of  ...  lessons to be learned from the Irish Lisbon Treaty vote, Sweden&apos;s commissioner Margot Wallstrom has  ...
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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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...  for consumers and businesses in Europe,&quot; said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. &quot;It is a  ...  on energy security&quot; The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal partly succeeded in introducing measures to protect  ...
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<title>Kiwi oasis in a dodgy world</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192496345</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  countries including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and Portugal have taken similar decisions, while others such  ...  the case of Europe, to comply with European Union requirements. Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard has  ...
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<title>Why I shall be voting against Peter Mandelson&apos;s replacement</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192494125</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 16:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  voters. Baroness Ashton, Gordon Brown&apos;s choice for EU Commissioner She then held various ministerial jobs,  ...  jobs, and was responsible for steering the Lisbon Treaty through the Upper House, before being  ...
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