The Amsterdam appeals court agreed with the lower court that the position of Britons living in the EU after Brexit was a matter of EU law
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/ 23 October 2007
Europe’s top court on Tuesday overturned a German law that protects Volkswagen against takeovers, allowing Porsche to tighten its grip on the wheel of the continent’s biggest carmaker. The European Court of Justice ruled against the "Volkswagen Law", thereby upholding Porsche’s claim to voting rights in line with its 31% stake in VW.
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/ 19 October 2007
European Union leaders voiced relief at clinching a deal on Friday on a treaty to reform the 27-nation bloc’s institutions, replacing a defunct constitution and ending a two-year crisis of confidence in Europe’s future. ”It’s an important page in the history of Europe,” Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on arriving to chair the second day of an EU summit.
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/ 14 October 2007
The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has launched a rare attack on Gordon Brown ahead of the crucial Lisbon summit on the European Union reform treaty this week, warning that the British Prime Minister is putting the international fight against terrorism at risk.
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/ 17 September 2007
A European Union court upheld most of a landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust decision against Microsoft on Monday in a crucial victory for the European competition regulator against the United States software giant. The EU’s Court of First Instance dismissed Microsoft’s appeal on all substantive points.