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Another power struggle may be shaping up between the DNI and the FBI. Although FBI director Robert Mueller told Negroponte in a March 30 meeting arranged by the National Security Council that he is "open" to new ideas, a U.S. intelligence source tells TIME that Mueller has signaled his opposition...
...customs directorate, said in a speech last year. "We in the Commission strongly believe that a single E.U.-wide company tax base is, in the long term, the best response to the current challenges in the corporate tax field." Laszlo Kovacs, a Hungarian who is the new E.U. Tax Commissioner, has yet to outline his policy approach, although he did tell a German interviewer last year that his ambition was for the E.U. "to work toward a harmonized corporate tax base." He'll encounter strong political opposition. "The idea of a European corporate tax system is not popular," says Linklaters...
The Meter Is Running Out After a decade of trying to legislate Europe's gas and electric suppliers into a single competitive market, the European Commission last week laid out its tool kit, ready to dismantle the faulty parts. The E.C.'s competition director general Philip Lowe announced that an...
not implementing E.U. reform directives, the ease with which Germany's utility mammoth E.ON sidestepped competition laws to acquire Ruhrgas in 2003 suggests stronger remedies may be needed. "Incumbent monopolies are like elephants," says one Commission official. "They live long lives, have long memories and do not take gracefully to...
Thanks but no thanks to L. Brent Bozell's watchdog groups for presuming to judge what television content my child should be protected from [March 28]. I don't need them to make that judgment, and I certainly don't appreciate their prodding the Federal Communications Commission into action on...