Word: pan-european
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...made no secret of its ambitions in this area, announcing in 1999 that it would develop smart phones based on a scaled-down version of its ubiquitous Windows. The first wide-scale deployment of phones running Microsoft's software is expected to come later this month through Orange, the pan-European mobile firm owned by France Telecom. But most of the major handset manufacturers - including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Siemens - are all betting on an alternative system made by the London-based consortium Symbian. These manufacturers will want to convince consumers they can Web surf via phone...
...investments by $4.7 billion, including $878 million in KPN, valuing its 15% stake in the Dutch mobile company at zero. spanish gales Spain's second-largest power utility, Iberdrola, agreed to pay €1 billion over four years for the wind farms owned by Gamesa. INDICATORS Pensions Without Borders Pan-European pensions moved closer to reality as the European Court of Justice ruled that Rolf Danner, who lives in Finland, should receive the country's normal tax breaks although he pays into a German pension. The ruling is key for companies who want one scheme for all their E.U. employees...
...anything other than Turkish Muslim. "As a result," says Dertli, "most Europeans don't even know we exist." The building is Berlin's Anatolian Alevi Culture Center, one of nearly 300 such facilities scattered across Europe. Delegates from 165 centers converged on Brussels this summer to form a pan-European Alevi Union, something unheard of back home. Turgut Öker, who heads the union, hopes the organization's existence will speed the process of reform and help bring Turkey into the European Union. Non-Muslims enjoy religious freedom in Turkey, but the 98% of the population who are Muslims must...
...count their past lives - are collectively known as Las Ketchup. Their zany single Asereje has become an unexpected chart-topper not only at home, where it spent 13 weeks at No. 1, but also all across the Continent; it holds the top spot in the pan-European chart. That's quite an achievement for the quirky trio and their deliriously silly song, which, more than any other piece of pop music in recent memory, vindicates the rants of all who turn on the radio and complain that they can't understand a word that's being sung. Asereje is mostly...
Taxing savings is less of a headline-grabbing issue than the money of fallen dictators or Holocaust victims, but for the E.U. it may be just as significant. The planned exchange of tax information would create the beginnings of a more unified pan-European fiscal system, and end the anomaly of tax havens within the E.U. Germany in the 1990s saw how damaging capital flight could be when it instituted a special withholding tax on savings to pay for reunification, sparking an exodus of billions of marks to neighboring Luxembourg. Tax evasion is not a criminal offense in Switzerland...