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EU to ensure firms pay more taxes where they are based: Merkel
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will ensure big companies pay more taxes in the countries where they are based, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday. "We will work towards ensuring companies have to pay more where they are based,"...Tags: European Union
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EU leaders talk tough on tackling Amazon, Google over taxes
ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany called for stricter rules to stop companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon aggressively avoiding taxes in austerity bitten Europe, while acknowledging they had done nothing unlawful. At a summit to...Tags: France, U.S. Senate, International Organizations, Republic of Ireland, Politics
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German opposition attacks Merkel minister over dud drone deal
Reuters* Critics say fiasco has wasted some 680 million euros * Oppositino says Merkel ally withheld information BERLIN, May 22 (Reuters) - German opposition parties accused a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel of withholding information on a cancelled...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Germany
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Column: The European Union's unending quandary
Reuters(Reuters) - The pace of European disintegration continues to quicken. Recession deepens in the 17-member euro zone. It is now the longest downturn since the currency was launched in 2000. In Italy, a new left-right government, launched on an anti-...Tags: Media Industry, France, International Organizations, George Soros, Politics
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COLUMN - The European Union's unending quandary
Reuters(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By John Lloyd May 21 (Reuters) - The pace of European disintegration continues to quicken. Recession deepens in the 17-member euro zone. It is now the longest downturn since the currency...Tags: France, Media Industry, International Organizations, George Soros, Politics
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ANALYSIS-German households pay for lower industrial power prices
Reuters* German wholesale power is cheaper than in France, Netherlands * Cheaper industrial power paid for by soaring household bills * Ways sought to rein in household bill explosion By Henning Gloystein and Vera Eckert LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters)...Tags: France, Energy Saving, International Energy, Lobbying, Environmental Issues
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Analysis: German households pay for lower industrial power prices
ReutersLONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German households are paying for ever cheaper wholesale power supplies to industry as the government uses money from soaring domestic bills to subsidize renewable energy, in turn creating overcapacity on the country's grid....Tags: France, International Energy, Energy Saving, Environmental Issues, Lobbying
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Germany's Bundesbank says second quarter growth to show definite improvement, risks remain
AP Business WriterFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's central bank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter — a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. The Bundesbank said...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Government Debt, Finance, European Central Bank, Germany
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France must reform or face punitive measures: EU's Oettinger
ReutersBERLIN (Reuters) - France should only be granted more time from the European Commission to cut its deficit if it also introduces reform measures, EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger was quoted saying on Monday. Oettinger, a former state premier...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, France, International Organizations, Politics
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EU energy chief says EU to look at fracking this year
ReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Environmental concerns over the practice of hydraulic fracturing to tap shale gas will be on the European Union's agenda this year, EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told a German newspaper. "It is absolutely right to seek...Tags: International Organizations, Energy Resources, Politics, Germany, Science and Technology
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Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
ReutersBERLIN, May 19 (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting....Tags: Denmark, Eurovision Song Contest (tv program), Germany
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Pope decries more concern over banks than people; leads Vatican rally, meets with Merkel
Associated PressVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience,...Tags: Religion and Belief, The Pope, Roman Catholicism, Politics, Justice and Rights
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