Denmark’s tax on nitrogen oxide emissions, which was raised during the financial crisis, could be scrapped if it’s proven to have a negative impact on jobs and competitiveness.
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The much heralded peace accord between Turkey and the Kurds has not materialized yet. The Kurds don’t trust Ankara’s motives and rightly so. They will probably be used as canon fodder against Assad in Syria and the Shiite regimes in Iraq and Iran.
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In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed said it will keep buying billion a month in mortgage bonds and Treasurys. The Fed said that economic activity has “paused in recent months” due to weather and other transitory factors. The Fed did not say how long the bond purchases would last
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The International Monetary Fund will visit Iran in the first half of the year to assess the state of its economy and the impact of Western sanctions, a senior IMF official said on Friday.
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Spain’s property slump will deepen for much of the next decade, and tracts of buildings along the Mediterannean coast will have to be demolished, the country’s top consultants have warned.
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The European Union’s General Court in Luxembourg ruled Thursday that the central bank was right to keep secret documents that would reveal how much the ECB knew about the true state of Greece’s accounts before the country needed a 240 billion-euro
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Despite huge power cuts as a result of flooding and wind, looting and other crime have been kept low, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
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Illinois utility customers have paid the U.S government .9 billion to store spent nuclear fuel from nuclear plants in the state in a permanent national nuclear waste repository; in the last thirty years, the U.S. government has collected billion from utilities toward this permanent storage, and it keeps collecting 0 million a year.
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The U.S. maintained the drone pressure on the tribal areas of Pakistan through the weekend with two more unmanned Predators bombarding various targets on Sunday; killing eight suspected terrorists. Together with Saturday’s attack, the toll went up to 14.
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The Treasury told Congress in a new report seen on its website Monday that the cost of the government’s massive bailout of Detroit in the economic crisis of 2007-2008 would hit billion, based on figures to May 31.
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