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Kroes to get 'ICT and telecom' in EU Commission
http://www.nrc.nl/international/europe/article2422307.ece/Kroes_to_get_ICT_and_telecom_in_EU_Commission
Almunia Named European Union Competition Commissioner (Update3)
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| European Economic and Monetary Affairs
| Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, a Spanish
| Socialist known for tackling countriesâ
| deficits, will be antitrust chief in the
| next European Commission, succeeding Neelie
| Kroes.
|
| As competition commissioner, Almunia, 61,
| will be responsible for ensuring that
| companies donât abuse market positions or
| unlawfully collude to fix prices. He will
| also rule on mergers and acquisitions in
| the 27-nation bloc.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a43KnbUzrCCs&pos=6
EU Antitrust Chief, Other Posts Picked
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125932026481566233.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_world
Sarkozy Wins Bid to Install Ally as EU Financial-Services Chief
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| French President Nicolas Sarkozy won his
| bid to install an ally as the European
| Commissionâs next financial-services
| regulator, fueling British concern that
| traders and hedge funds will face stricter
| rules.
|
| [...]
|
| French officials have pushed for tighter
| regulations on hedge funds than has
| outgoing internal-markets chief Charlie
| McCreevy of Ireland and criticized him for
| not responding forcefully enough to the
| financial crisis. The U.K., seeking to
| protect its financial-services industry,
| has tried to weaken proposed rules for
| hedge funds and private-equity managers.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=arn4EULVo4Iw
Viviane Reding Picked to Re-write EU Data Protection Laws
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| Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
| announced on Friday how he wants to
| allocate dossiers in his next five-year
| term in office. His team comprises one
| Commissioner from each of the 27 member
| states of the E.U., who were selected by
| national heads of government over the past
| month.
|
| Other choices include Neelie Kroes in
| Reding's old job. Kroes was competition
| commissioner for the past five years.
| During that time she fought Microsoft in
| the long-running antitrust battle which
| looks set to end as Microsoft appears
| willing to settle.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/183280/viviane_reding_picked_to_rewrite_eu_data_protection_laws.html
"Monopoly raises two classes of problems for a free society. First, the
existence of monopoly means a limitation on voluntary exchange through a
reduction in the alternatives available to individuals. Second, the existence
of monopoly raises the issue of âsocial responsibilityâ, as it has come to be
called, of the monopolist."
--Milton Friedman
Recent:
Needlessly Needling Neelie
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| What's interesting here is that Kroes is juxtaposing proprietary and open
| source. Now, for you and me, this is reflexive, but for the EU's
| Competition Commissioner to be framing an extremely contentious
| intervention in these terms seems pretty stunning to me. It implies that
| the difference between those two worlds has been interiorised by at least
| some senior politicians to such an extent that they are using it as a
| central part of their analysis in major decisions, *without* feeling the
| need to justify that approach. Whatever your views on other aspects of the
| decision, I think Kroes deserves some credit for getting to that point.
|
| More importantly, it basically means we're winning, people.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/09/needlessly-needling-neelie.html
EU warns online music stores: change or be changed
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| EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has warned the music industry that
| she is prepared to take action to ensure a competitive online marketplace
| across member states, especially for digital music sales.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20729/1054/
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