first research center in central Europe will cover studies of India's cultural, social, political, and economic issues. Its faculty will include scholars from Europe and India and it will promote cooperation between Europe and India.EUROPEAN UNION (EU) has reportedly given 270, 000 Euros to University of Warsaw (Poland) to establish a Contemporary India Studies Centre.Said to be the first research...
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Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has launched another two telecommunications satellites into orbit.The 5,700-kg NSS-12 satellite is owned by SES World Skies and will deliver TV broadcasts to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.The 3,000-kg THOR-6 spacecraft will broadcast TV programmes to Scandinavia and central and Eastern Europe for Norwegian operator Telenor.The vehicle remains on track...
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Slovenia has signed a deal with Russia for a massive gas pipeline from Russia to Europe to run through its territory.The South Stream accord was signed by the Slovenian and Russian cabinet ministers in Moscow.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Moscow now had deals with all the key European partners in the project.South Stream - which is scheduled to be completed by 2015 - is in competition...
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Eastern Europe's rapid integration into the global financial system has helped boost long-term growth in the region, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said in its annual report 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.But the EBRD said that the "catastrophic" impact of the global financial crisis on Eastern Europe, which until 2008 had expanded rapidly, "has cast a shadow over...
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visitFRANKFURT -- New-car registrations in Europe rose 11.2% in October to 1.26 million as scrapping incentive schemes continued to bolster demand in many major West European markets, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association ACEA said Monday."In Western Europe, new car registrations totaled 1.2 million units in October, or 16% more than in October last year, mostly led by an increase in the...
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Announces Acquisition Of Gloster Europe To Help Reduce Infections In Healthcare FacilitiesAdvanced Sterilization Products (ASP), a leading global infection prevention solution provider, announced today the acquisition by its French affiliate, Apsis S.A.S., of Gloster Europe, a privately held developer of innovative disinfection processes and technologies to prevent healthcare-acquired infections. Terms...
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Recent media reports in Germany may have muddied the waters a tad, but General Motors' European reorganisation is a constituent part ofIs General Motors Europe moving its HQ from Zurich to Russelsheim to reflect the greater role forin terms of New GM's European operations? Assumptions underlying that question aren't quite right. GM Europe is effectively being disbanded under a new leaner structure...
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visitMOSCOW -- A compromise reached late Thursday between Russia and Ukraine has curbed the risk of another serious cutoff of gas to Europe this winter, but financial problems and political tensions inside Ukraine still pose a threat, officials on both sides say.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin agreed with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday to allow Ukraine to buy less gas...
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The European Union (EU) risks facing a "decade of retrenchment" and high unemployment unless 10 million new jobs are created by 2014, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned.In a letter to Fredrik Reinfeldt, the current EU Council president, Brown urged a new direction in Europe on the issues of employment and growth."We must now put Europe on a different course. We need - as a matter of urgency...
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must put itself at the heart of Europe to protect jobs and support economic growth, Gordon Brown insisted today.In thinly-veiled criticism of the Tories, the Prime Minister claimed that retreating to the European sidelines would deal a "devastating blow" to UK business.Speaking to business leaders at the CBI conference in London, Mr Brown said he was spearheading demands for a Europe-wide economic...
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