For the last 10 years, a safe space has existed in Europe’s richest country for drug addicts to inject narcotics
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ArcelorMittal chief executive Lakshmi Mittal became chairperson of the steelmaker on Tuesday, increasing his control over the company. ”I could not have asked for a better chairman during the time of integration,” Mittal told the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
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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.
The European Union agreed on Thursday on a watered-down anti-racism law, reflecting wide divergences among the bloc’s 27 states on how to tackle racial prejudice and genocide denial. The bloc struggled for almost six years over proposals for EU-wide legislation.
Australian Robbie McEwen won a thrilling bunch sprint to claim the second stage of the Tour de France here Monday over 228,5km of racing between Obernai and Esch-sur-Alzette. Norway’s Thor Hushovd, who came in third on the stage behind world champion Tom Boonen of Belgium, regained the leader’s yellow jersey from American George Hincapie, who drops to fourth overall.
The world’s two biggest steelmakers — Mittal Steel and Arcelor — agreed on Sunday on a deal that forges a new force in the global steel business. This follows a marathon meeting of Arcelor’s 18-head board on Sunday with Indian-born Lakshmi Mittal’s group forced to raise its takeover price to secure Arcelor’s backing.
The European Union gave the green light on Monday to deploy a 2 000-strong force to help secure the first multiparty elections in four decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) later this month. About 25-million Congolese voters will go to the polls on July 30.
Microsoft sparred with its rivals on Thursday about how much information it should give them to make servers more compatible as judges questioned both sides about what code could be divulged without giving away trade secrets. The software maker says it has the right to guard its valuable intellectual property.
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/ 11 October 2004
The European Union on Monday agreed to lift an 18-year-old arms embargo on Libya, bowing to pressure from Italy, which wants to help the former pariah state fight illegal immigration. Rome has for several months been pressing its EU counterparts to lift the embargo imposed on Libya in 1986.
United States software giant Microsoft insisted on Friday that nobody would want to buy its Windows operating system without Media Player, in an appeal against a European Union ruling that it had abused its market dominance. The Brussels commission also required Microsoft to provide competitors with the information they needed to enable their products to communicate with Windows.
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/ 14 October 2003
The United States is to try to break the United Nations deadlock over Iraq by tabling in the next 24 hours a revised draft resolution that it hopes will bring Russia aboard. The fresh version of the Security Council resolution sets a December 15 deadline for the Iraqi governing council to produce a timetable for the transfer of power to Iraqis.