With the election a tight three-horse race, U. K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said 'economies in Europe are in peril and there is a risk of dragging us back into recession.

眼下竞选成了一场势均力敌的三人角逐赛，而英国现任首相布朗(Gordon Brown)则说，欧洲经济处于危难之中，我们有被拖回到衰退中的危险。

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Spanghero should have known that the meat it labeled as beef was actually horse, French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon has said.

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Spanghero was the first company to label the meat as beef, the minister said, adding that 750 tons of horse meat were involved over a period of at least six months.

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"We will look (starting Monday) at who their clients are and, as a consequence, we will see what products will have to be taken off the market because there is a reasonable suspicion that these products are composed of horse meat and not beef, " said France's junior minister for the social economy, Benoit Hamon.

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