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Digital divide over piracy proposals

Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners The government's planned crackdown on unlawful online filesharing has been attacked by privacy campaigners and...

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Cuts will cost British universities their international reputations

Financial crisis beckons as public spending cuts loom and universities face intense competition from overseas Universities are facing a new funding crisis with looming public spending cuts and intense competition from overseas,...

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Merkel halted Blair's EU candidacy

Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall...

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Dangerous seas

Why have the world's most advanced navies failed to end piracy in the seas around Somalia? The BBC's Middle East correspondent Paul Wood reports from the EU anti-piracy taskforce flagship, Evertsen, in the Gulf of Aden. Cdr...

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Climate change denial MEP attacks church

Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism' A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the new...

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Car scrappage take-up overestimated because of double-counting

Errors in car scrappage data mean scheme will be extended beyond February The government has exaggerated the success of its car scrappage scheme after double counting thousands of orders , the Guardian has learnt. Officials at...

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Swiss insurers call for simpler solvency regulation

ZURICH, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Switzerland's insurers need local regulation to be harmonised with international standards and improved access to European Union markets to boost growth, executives said on Friday.

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Brussels warns on accounts rules

By Nikki Tait in Brussels and Rachel Sanderson in London Brussels has warned that it will be months before it decides whether to support a radical overhaul of accounting rules on how banks and other financial institutions value...

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Muted welcome in Asia for EU appointments

By Kevin Brown, Geoff Dyer, James Lamont and Jonathan Soble News of the appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton received a polite but muted response in Asia, where the European Union is widely regarded as...

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Leaders turn their back on Giscard's vision

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was not happy on Friday. When the former French president embarked on his mission seven years ago to remodel the European Union for the 21st century, he had expected a very different result. Mr Giscard...

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