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“UTILITY giants E.On and Gaz De France (GDF) Suez were fined a total of almost £1bn by the European Commission’s competition regulators yesterday”

“Germany’s E.On and France’s GDF Suez were fined €553m (£477m) each”

“after it emerged that they had agreed in 1975 not to compete with each other when they began to import gas through a Russian pipeline”

“They maintained the market-sharing agreement after European gas markets were liberalised, and only abandoned it definitely in 2005”

“the proposal could create room for around 2.4 billion additional tonnes of CO2 by 2050.”

“Under the Commission's own projections, the transition away from Chinese equipment would cost between €3.4 billion and €4.3 billion annually across a three-year rollout - that annual estimate equates…”

“could be fined up to 6% of its total global annual turnover.”

“It knows that the European Commission is accusing the UK of sending raw sewage into our seas "too frequently and in excessive quantities,"”

“The European Commission has sought to soften concerns from other member states. It warned that the residence permits would apply only to Spain and not the rest of the EU after the amnesty was announc…”

“the UK government was expected to borrow the equivalent of 12% of GDP this year.”

“UTILITY giants E.On and Gaz De France (GDF) Suez were fined a total of almost £1bn by the European Commission’s competition regulators yesterday”

“Germany’s E.On and France’s GDF Suez were fined €553m (£477m) each”

“after it emerged that they had agreed in 1975 not to compete with each other when they began to import gas through a Russian pipeline”

“They maintained the market-sharing agreement after European gas markets were liberalised, and only abandoned it definitely in 2005”

“The comment period ended on May 1, and the commission is determining how to enforce the new rules. It expects to have a final decision on July 27, which will be legally binding for Google as a design…”

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“but now Europe is demanding £60m back for payments made in error to farmers in Northern Ireland.”

“In total Europe provides 300m euros to farmers here annually while the individual subsidy claims are administered locally by the Department of Agriculture.”

“and has nine months to do so”

“In addition to the SPV, the European Commission is making 60bn euros available 'to cover urgent financial needs, were it to arise'.”

“Mobile phone call charges range from 0.04 euro per minute in Latvia to 0.24 in Malta, a Commission report says.”

“There was zero growth in EU telecoms in 2009, while the overall EU economy saw a 4.2% decline.”

“In January average EU take-up of fixed broadband per capita stood at 24.8% - more than 123 million lines.”

“Denmark and the Netherlands are world leaders in fixed-line broadband, with nearly 40% of the population enjoying broadband internet access, the Commission says.”

“In January it was reaching 5.2% of the EU population, and the penetration rates for Finland, Portugal and Austria were above 15%.”

“limiting banks' boards to three directors who meet minimum levels of expertise”

“The corporate governance 'green paper' is only intended to stimulate discussion, and the commission does not expect to propose any specific new legislation until 2011.”

“expects the Greek economy to shrink by 3% this year”

“the eurozone as a whole would see growth of 0.9% - an improvement on the 0.7% forecast earlier this year”

“Portugal's economy is forecast to grow by 0.5% after shrinking by 2.7% last year, the European Commission said”

“The European Commission scaled back its own ambitions: its goal is now to open two clusters with Ukraine in July, rather than all five.”

“It has already delayed one vote - taking it off the agenda at a meeting in March - after Britain's former Prime Minister Gordon Brown persuaded EU officials that more time was needed to reach a conse…”