The European Round Table of Industrialists has identified four areas in which reforms would benefit consumers and business, write Jacob Wallenberg and Leif Johansson
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FT on 15th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The FT reports: Nick Clegg yesterday made a very public display of engagement with business over Europe as the deputy prime minister convened a business breakfast with Business For New Europe, a pro-single market group. Mr Clegg, flanked by Vince Cable, Danny Alexander, Chris Huhne David Laws, wanted to get the message across that he
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 15th Dec 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
What are the Lib Dems up to? On Tuesday, Clegg, Cable, Alexander, Huhne and Laws met with 'Business for New Europe', a group of pro-European business leaders, in what the FT describes as as 'a very public display of engagement with business over Europe' and the front page of today's Mail calls 'plotting to rally business chiefs against Cameron over Europe'. It is...
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Spectator on 16th Dec 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Good news for TV viewers, small business and Europe – bad news for Rupert Murdoch and big money. And perhaps the first time I’ve ever cheered a story about football. So congratulations to pub landlady Karen Murphy for standing up for herself against the big business bullies, and to the European Court of Justice for saying that big cartels can’t stop free competition. She bought a...
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LoveAndLiberty on 5th Oct 2011 (via loveandliberty.blogspot.com)
The Locus Association has expressed strong disappointment that the government appears to have largely ignored the independent advice it has received over many years in relation to Ordnance Surveys business model. Locus again expresses its concern that the approach will continue to fail to deliver fair competition in the Public Sector Information (PSI) marketplace.
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PublicTechnology on 28th Apr 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
I KNEW that Business Secretary Vince Cable didn't understand business. Now it seems he doesn't understand Adam Smith. He told the LibDem conference: "Capitalism ta
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Scotsman on 22nd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Business secretary plans appeal to Brussels if German bailout means redundancies in UK Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, will appeal to the competition authorities in Brussels if the German government-led bailout of General Motors Europe leads to unjustified job losses among its 5,000 Vauxhall workers in the UK, the Guardian has learned. This week, officials from his department contacted the...
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Guardian on 29th May 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe are losing business due to a lack of "linguistic and intercultural skills" among their employees, EU Multilingualism Commissioner Leonard Orban told business representatives this week (6 May).
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EurActiv on 8th May 2009 (via euractiv.com)
End of March I posted this which outlined the absolute 'Horlicks' that the Assembly Government had made of providing advice to businesses in Mid Wales. To recap briefly - after many years of business advice provision by Powys County Council, (through Business Connect and Business Eye) the contract to supply the service was given to a company from outside the area called Business in Focus...
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AViewFromRuralWales on 16th Apr 2009 (via glyndaviesam.blogspot.com)
President Barack Obama to announce sweeping new plans to stimulate the US's anaemic recovery, proposing businesses be able to write off all investments in their plants from now until the end of next year, a move that would amount to a $200bn tax cut for business
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FT on 7th Sep 2010 (via ft.com)