EU gives up on 'metric Britain'
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The European Union is abandoning plans to force Britain to phase out the imperial measurement system.
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Media Lab Europe, a high-tech research center founded by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced Friday it is closing because it's run out of money.
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The pint lives on: The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo.
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A court ruling this week gives European Union trustbusters the upper hand in their long battle with Microsoft. The company reluctantly started dismantling the practice that
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Â· Some states 'in denial' over constitution  Â· Barroso rejects Ã  la carte Europe of exemptions
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THE board of Dexia, the Franco-Belgian bank, yesterday unanimously rejected a proposed â¬37 billion (Â£26 billion) merger with Italyâs Sanpaolo, bringing an end to what would have been Europeâs biggest cross-border bank deal.
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Rory Watson, Times Brussels correspondent, explains why the EU today rejected scientific advice to close off key fishing areas in an attempt to stall the collapse in cod stocks.
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Eurosceptics have given up hope of inflicting a big dent in the government's majority in Lisbon treaty vote
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European system taking on US military's GPS faces collapse over multi-billion-pound deficit.
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UK mobile messaging firm 'ceases trading'
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Downing Street has indicated the treaty that emerges from next week's EU summit will not be put to a referendum
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Gordon Brown has rejected renewed calls from the Conservatives for a national vote on the new European treaty.  Your views?
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The British Council is cutting its budget for Europe to shift its focus to Muslim countries.
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Pints all round as EU crumples before imperial forces The EU will abandon all pretentions to enforce its filthy metric system on Britain, thereby guaranteeing once-and-for-all an Englishman's right to sup ale in pints, buy spuds by the pound, and measure the distance between the greengrocer and the boozer in miles.â¦
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The European Union&#39;s executive office ended a three-year battle with France and Germany on Tuesday, dropping EU procedures against them after the two nations pledged to get their budget deficits back within EU limits next year.
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The European Union is in danger of extending beyond its proper geographical and cultural limits. Frankly, this title is misleading.
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Farmers won't miss â¬2.2bn, say officials The European Union (EU) central bureaucracy has today announced its plan to save Galileo, the troubled European sat nav project. Brussels officials believe that no additional taxpayer cash would be required on top of existing EU plans, saying that funds could be reassigned from other areas.â¦