Rarely has an energy giant compromised its future with European institutions by conducting such lamentable lobbying operations. The upshot of EDF's failure to get its points across was a decision by competition commissioner Mario Monti on Oct.
Diplomats on post in Berlin say they expect Berlin and Moscow to shortly sign an historic energy accord. The alliance would operate under the terms of an enigmatic St. Petersburg pact.
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In 1996 a businessman accused Eurocopter of illegally selling helicopters to South Africa. But no serious proof of the allegation emerged - until now.
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A new defense grouping is taking form in the Balkans. Nine southern European nations are to meet in Rome in December to officially launch the first-ever Balkans military force.
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A novel published this week by the Flammarion house in [...]
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According to senior White House officials, the administration is thinking of subjecting key telecommunications industry personnel to background security checks [...]
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In a report to British prime minister Tony Blair last week, the government communications commissioner noted that the Government Communications [...]
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France's Helios-2 military observation satellite will be launched in March, 2004, according to Yves Fromion, a member of the French [...]
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In her annual report on Oct. 25, Paule Gauthier, the woman who chairs Canada's Security and Intelligence Review Committee, discreetly [...]
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The U.S. senator Chuck Grassley, who frequently sits on watch-dog commissions that look into the FBI's operations, wrote personally to [...]
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The head of the new U.S. Office of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, was in London on Nov. 6-7 to speak [...]
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In a first and surprising move of its kind, the French government has appointed a businessman as director of intelligence [...]
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Qatari foreign minister Hamad Bin Jassem Al Thani is bracing himself for stormy times ahead. Main backer of the Al [...]
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On Nov. 1, Patricia Yarrington took over as head of all lobbying operations for the ChevronTexaco oil group. She succeeded [...]
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A well-known and highly respected figure in the City of London, Martin Kohlhaussen, has just been named to the supervisory [...]
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The new business intelligence firm that Pierre Maillot set up following his break with Eurogroup is having trouble finding its [...]
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Kroll Worldwide has just hired several financial auditors who previously worked for Arthur Andersen. Most have been assigned to Europe, [...]
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The New York private intelligence firm The Sabatier Group has just hired a highly singular consultant, Stephen Flynn. A lot [...]
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A specialist in lobbying the drugs industry, Marilyn Castaldi, will be taking over as head of Hill & Knowlton's New [...]
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The new federal bureau to supervise the activities of auditors will prefer compromise to crackdown. The appointment of a former CIA chief as its boss is highly significant.
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The surprising destabilization campaign - named ?Clipping the Bird's Wings? - that Thomson CSF allegedly mounted against Lagardere is going to bounce back into the news with the arrest of lawyer William Law.
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The U.S. military attache to Cyprus saw red during a [...]
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According to Yemeni intelligence sources, Saad Bin Laden, son of [...]
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MILKO KOVACHEV, Bulgarian energy minister, has formed a lobby group [...]
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IN WASHINGTON, MICHAEL ROBINSON, spokesman for Securities and Exchange Commission [...]
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The decision by U.S. federal court judge Colleen Kollar Kotelly on Nov. 1 to confirm the government's agreement with Microsoft was a shining victory for Jack Krumholtz, the group's leading lobbyist.
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The Senate's committee of government affairs will hear officials from [...]
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France's Higher Civil Defense Committee is organizing a seminar devoted [...]
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Most of Europe's leading experts from both public and private [...]
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A classified, top-level meeting of the Defense Science Board will [...]
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The business intelligence firm Egideria is organizing a working session [...]
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British diplomats in daily contact with MI6 feel an attack [...]
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Following the CIA's operation to eliminate Salim Sinan al Harethi [...]
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The United Arab Emirates Central Bank in Dubai inaugurated a [...]
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With RJ Reynolds in the forefront, U.S. tobacco giants will [...]
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