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		<title><![CDATA[Brussels to rule on Microsoft deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission is set to give formal approval next week to a settlement with Microsoft that ends the latest European antitrust case against the company. The two sides reached a broad agreement in September, though final details have only been hammered out in recent days before being put...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[F Telecom loses state aid appeal case]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ France Telecom, Europe's third-largest telecoms group, yesterday lost its court appeal against a European Commission order to repay about ?1bn ($1.5bn) of state aid to the French government that Brussels had deemed illegal.The European Commission's competition department ruled in 2004 that tax concessions enjoyed by the telecoms group a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM prepares to outline Opel strategy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ European government officials said they expected General Motors to outline a strategy for its Opel unit within days, and made plans to discuss the re-structuring in depth in the first week of December.After a meeting organised by the European Commission, European Union industry ministers said they had "agreed to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM board to reconsider Opel sale plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ General Motors' board is set to meet on Tuesday to reconsider the planned sale of Opel to Canadian car-parts supplier Magna and Sberbank, the Russian bank.The reassessment of the long sales process, which has been fraught with political haggling over job cuts and state financing, comes after the European...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:46:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spanish GM workers agree restructuring]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ General Motors' Spanish workers on Monday voted to approve Magna International's modified restructuring plan for their plant, bringing the Canadian company's takeover of Opel a step closer.Separately, the European Commission on Monday said it would rule by November 27  as to whether the deal complied with its antitrust...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:51:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Germany seeks to soothe Opel fears]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Germany's government has dismissed fears that General Motors' sale of its Opel business may have to be halted or delayed because of European Commission concerns about the proposed deal.Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, economy minister, said the plan for Opel to be sold to Magna International, a Canadian car parts supplier,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:23:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scale of generic drug raids in France points to wider investigation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The breadth of the European Commission's antitrust probe into the generic industry launched this week suggests it extends beyond a single deal and explores practices across the sector in France, industry experts said yesterday.Sanofi-Aventis, Ratio-pharm, Teva, Ranbaxy and Novartis all confirmed that their French offices had been raided by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brussels to pore over Magna deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission is to scrutinise German backing for the takeover of General Motors' European operations amid concern that planned job cuts could be influenced by political factors, hitting plants in the UK and Belgium disproportionately hard.Signalling that she would take a tough line on the issue, Neelie Kroes,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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