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• French bank to take majority stake in Fortis
BRUSSELS, Belgium - French banking giant BNP Paribas will take a 75 percent stake in the remaining operations of troubled bank Fortis NV, the Belgian government announced Sunday. Prime Minister Yves Leterme said the deal gives the Paris-based bank ...
• Topless activists protest EU bullfighting
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Animal-rights activists staged a topless protest outside the European Parliament on Thursday, demanding the European Union ban bullfighting and stop aiding the industry in Spain, France and Portugal. Some 20 men and women lay down ...
• EU proposes more rights for Internet shoppers
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices. EU Consumer Commissioner ...
• Oh, joy! EU moves to use Beethoven for anthem
BRUSSELS, Belgium - What do you think about when you hear Beethoven's "Ode to Joy?" Bureaucrats in Brussels? Long-winded lawmakers? No? Well, maybe you should. New life was breathed Thursday into plans to make "Ode to Joy," the fourth movement of ...
• NATO wants more action on Afghan drugs
BRUSSELS, Belgium - NATO's top commander charged Monday that a handful of nations were preventing him from sending troops against heroin producers and traffickers in Afghanistan because they worry that could provoke a backlash against allied troops ...