Banking blunder hands out Belgian bonanza
Brussels - There were red faces in the Belgian Post Office on Thursday after a banking blunder handed out bonanza payments to some 50,000 unemployed people. The 40-million-euro (60-million-dollar) mistake came after the country's employment agency, C...
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2009-10-22 ] Category : [
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Brussels seeks end to EU 'asylum lottery'
Brussels - Officials in Brussels on Wednesday called for common and fairer asylum rules within the European Union in order to offer refugees a higher level of protection. The proposals put forward by the bloc's top justice official, Jacques Barrot, a...
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2009-10-21 ] Category : [
Finance (General) ]
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Spanish premier clears first budget hurdle
Madrid - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday secured sufficient initial support for the government's 2010 budget despite heavy criticism of his economic policies. Zapatero heads a minority Socialist government which depen...
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2009-10-21 ] Category : [
Finance (General) ]
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Sri Lanka probes arrested US stock market investor
Colombo – Sri Lanka is investigating the dealings of a hedge-fund manager who was arrested in the United States to ascertain whether he financed a prominent front organization of Tamil rebels, the Central Bank said Monday. Sri Lanka-born multi-billio...
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2009-10-19 ] Category : [
Finance (General) ]
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Austria to block Liechtenstein-EU tax 'transparency' deal
Vienna - Austria will threatening to veto a tax cooperation deal due to be signed between Liechtenstein and the European Union, the finance ministry in Vienna said Monday. Along with Luxembourg, Austria is opposed to the deal with Liechtenstein - to ...
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2009-10-19 ] Category : [
Finance (General) ]
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