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• 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 ...
• European markets recover lost ground
And the news that the governments of France, Belgium and Luxembourg will give struggling lender Dexia SA a yearlong guarantee on its new loans and deposits, sent the company’s shares soaring by 18 percent. No one in the markets though is willing to ...
• Dow Jones ends day below 10,000
And France’s BNP Paribas agreed to acquire a 75 percent stake in Fortis’s Belgium bank after a government rescue failed. The Fed also took fresh steps Monday to help ease credit markets. The central bank said Monday it will begin paying interest ...