Rules For EU Carbon Permit Gets Delayed
EU will finalise the free permits’ benchmark for the period of “2021-2025” in February.
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African swine fever at Europe’s borders: time for an embargo?
As experts warned, the international outbreak of hemorrhagic fever (African swine fever – ASF) is devasting livestock populations in China and other parts of Asia. When cases of infection appeared last year, analysts predicted that China would be unable to control the spread, and that by the time it reached parts of South-East Asia the economic costs would be enormous. Unfortunately, they were right.
Facebook And Google To Pay Publishers For ‘News Snippets’ In EU Countries
The EU block has just approved of changes in the copyright law which will affect the online platforms like Facebook and Google.
European Commission Welcomes Paris & Berlin Together On ‘Deeper Euro-Zone Integration’
The European Commission terms Macron and Merkel’s agreement as a “crucial political step”.
Rehn To Become The Bank of Finland’s Governor & A Member Of The ‘ECB Council’
Rehn beats nine other applicants and bags the position of the Bank of Finland’s governor.
BASF to buy BAYER’s seed and herbicide business for $7 billion
For BASF, while this deal represents a fantastic opportunity, it is howering entering into a new territory, since it has avoided the seed business and has insteasd focused on research and licensing its tech to seed developers.
Qualcomm offers concession to ease concerns raised by the European Commission on its acquisition of NXP semiconductors
The European Commission’s concerns stem from apprehensions that the U.S. chipmaker could use incentives as a ploy to squeeze out rivals and raise prices as well as Qualcomm bringing about changes in NXP’s intellectual property licensing model.
