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Rejecting Bayer Appeal, Top EU Court Upholds Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides
The European Union's top court ruled Thursday in favor of the European Commission's partial ban on three pesticides hazardous to bees, much to the chagrin of Bayer—the German pharmaceutical and biotech company that merged with agrochemical giant Monsant ...[Read more]
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European copyright directive will impose link tax to subsidize publishers
Spain has already passed a similar link tax. Google News was the largest casualty of the legislation. Instead of opting to pay millions of dollars for displaying snippets from websites, Google simply shut down its Spanish news search business. Another ar ...[Read more]
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Research finds Facebook holds personally identifiable data on 40% of EU population
The study reveals that Facebook labels over 73 percent of its EU users with interests linked to sensitive personal data, which corresponds to 40 percent of the overall EU population. This means that the data of around 205 million Europeans isn’t complet ...[Read more]
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Brexit: EU warns UK it has less than a month to make concessions
The British government has less than a month to make a concession on the Brexit bill in order to guarantee launching trade talks in December, the Guardian understands. Senior officials in Brussels say talks have stalled since Theresa May’s Florence spee ...[Read more]
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In unprecedented move, eight European countries to demand compensation from Israel for West Bank demolitions
Eight European Union countries wrote an official protest letter to Israel, demanding over €30,000 ($35,400) in compensation for confiscating and demolishing structures and infrastructure which the countries had built in Area C of the West Bank, which is ...[Read more]
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Netanyahu launches blistering attack on EU
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a blistering attack against the European Union during a closed-session meeting Wednesday morning in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, telling the premiers of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia that ...[Read more]
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European Parliament Votes to End Visa-Free Travel for Americans (Video)
The European Parliament voted Thursday to require Americans to obtain visas to travel within the European Union after the United States failed to agree to visa-free travel for the citizens of five EU countries. ...[Read more]
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Britons living in the EU face Brexit backlash, leaked paper warns
The Labour leader called on the government to make a commitment that EU nationals currently living in the UK would be free to continue to do so, saying the failure to do so amounted to “playing political games with people’s lives”. As yet the Briti ...[Read more]
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Juppe Concedes Defeat in French Center-Right Presidential Primaries – Fillon wins with 70%
Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppe conceded his defeat in Sunday’s runoff of the center-right primaries and wished his challenger a victory next May. Fillon won the primary with ~70% of votes. Fillon advocates cooperation and reconciliation with Russia and is a ...[Read more]
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