Microsoft has demonstrated persistence over antitrust rulings before when it confronted the Europe Commission, and while Korea's anti-trust ruling is said by the company to have been "more extreme" than the EC's, the the software giant looks set to display the usual chutzpah.
Not only are they being pushed from pillar to post in Russia by a resurgent Vladimir Putin, keen to divide and (ultimately) rule upstream arrangements, the Europe Commission has launched a formal investigation into the Russian gas group for alleged market manipulation following raids on Gazprom offices last year.
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In 2007, Solis was appointed to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission), as well as the Mexico United States Interparliamentary Group.
Which, despite the efforts of him and his colleagues in the European Commission, Europe still is.
The Geneva-based United Nations Economic Commission for Europe was set up in 1947 to co-ordinate reconstruction in shattered post-war Europe.
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Under the leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), a Regional Strategy was prepared to facilitate the introduction and promotion of ESD.
Above all, the sight of a made-up story about Europe should inspire the Commission boss to a desire to nail it, right now, before it gets picked up elsewhere.
And it is fair to say that the BASF move comes at the same time when there appears to be confusion in Europe about what the Commission is going to do about the issue.
"These amendments raise concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards, " a statement by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said.
The UK must end "discriminatory" rules for workers from the new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe, says the European Commission.
If treaties are to be changed, though, Vernon Bogdanor, a professor at King's College, London, would push the elections yet further, and elect the entire commission on a Europe-wide basis.
Reacting to the vote on Monday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the adopted amendments "raise concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards" and the Commission would "make a detailed assessment" and act accordingly.
Indeed, Europe's example might just pave the way for a worthy successor to Kyoto, which expires in 2012 so long as the commission manages to keep Europe's recalcitrant governments in line.
In Europe, economists at the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, produce official estimates of the gap between actual and potential GDP that are crucial for calculating the structural deficit.
If so, you best hop on the next flight to somewhere not within Europe, as the almighty European Commission is fixing to peg the default volume limit on portable media players at 80 decibels.
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At a time of austerity across Europe and criticism of the European Commission's own budget, officials are emphasising the potential value of the funding for nurturing the kind of research that can produce an economic spin-off.
The institutions of Europe, the civil servants in the commission, the judges in the court would, he thinks, have become their servants.
Transport Minister Mike Penning said Liverpool had agreed to pay back the money to the government but the cash from Europe was a matter for the European Commission.
We are committed to pursuing our work with the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other partners in developing common strategies to enhance public activities and outreach programmes in Europe and beyond.
Moreover, as the commission has noted, governments often themselves row against the tide of subsidiarity: it is they, not the commission, that inspire many Europe-wide directives and then sometimes blame Brussels when they prove unpopular.
According to a report by the Institute of Alcohol Studies for the European Commission (IAS), Europe produces a quarter of the world's alcohol, and the booze industry employs around 750, 000 people in production alone.
Several of its laws have been challenged by the European Commission and the Council of Europe on various grounds: that they limit media freedom, threaten the independence of the judiciary and impose political control over the central bank.
The address received broad support from centre-right and liberal group leaders Joseph Daul and Guy Verhofstadt, who said that citizens wanted "more not less Europe", and called for the Commission to be more pro-active in coming forward with new legislation to promote economic growth.
She sits on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The risk of damage to the single market is significant: it behoves Europe's leaders, and the European Commission, to avert it at all costs.
Da Silva and Niebert said a close relationship between industry and the Commission was an important factor behind Europe taking the lead globally in mobile telephony.
It hopes to avoid landing the taxpayer with the bill, but questions over CCS funding in Europe are as yet unresolved by the European Commission and the European Parliament.
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The fund could be one of the first of its kind in Europe and would be based on the European Commission's Jessica programme, intended to provide sustainable investment for urban areas.
This is clear in Europe, where a directive from the European Commission tells the courts to strike out any unreasonable contractual obligation on a consumer if he has not freely negotiated it.
Less noticed by the Davos crowd was Ms. Merkel's vision for a federal Europe in which the Brussels-based European Commission would become "more and more like a government, " sucking powers away from national capitals.
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