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05 February 2010 |
Documents published by the European Parliament's budget committee have revealed a final sum for the amount spent by the Parliament on advertising the 2009 European elections: €21.4 million, writes Stephen Gardner. |
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02 February 2010 |
Germany is sometimes viewed as a slow-mover on CSR. But German companies argue that by complying with a strict regulatory framework, they have been doing CSR for years, writes Stephen Gardner. |
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19 December 2009 |
The Copenhagen debacle shows one thing very clearly: the European Union has minimal political clout to influence international climate negotiations, which are really negotiations about global economic, and therefore political, power, writes Stephen Gardner. |
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15 December 2009 |
Every Brussels policy edict comes with green edging nowadays, writes Stephen Gardner. So, when in September Monaco suggested that the best way to conserve the highly endangered and emblematic Atlantic bluefin tuna was to ban international trade in it, the European Commission was quick to lend its support – only to huff and puff when Spain and other Mediterranean countries declined to back it up. |
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10 December 2009 |
Feckless wasters of energy beware. From April 2010, large corporations and public bodies in Britain not paying enough attention to their power consumption could find themselves named and shamed under a government scheme called the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), writes Stephen Gardner. |
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06 November 2009 |
A big anniversary is looming. No, nothing to do with east Germans streaming through gaps in the Berlin wall. On 17 November 2009 it will be 40 years since the first edition of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper rolled off the presses, writes Stephen Gardner. |
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01 November 2009 |
Government-owned development finance institutions invest for development in poor countries – but they also earn surprisingly good returns, often for middlemen who are paid to invest on governments' behalf, writes Stephen Gardner. |
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