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...joint letter published last week in the Swedish daily Göteborgs-Posten, European Commission President Romano Prodi and Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson indicated a willingness to renegotiate parts of the Kyoto deal to meet U.S. objections. "It would be a tragic mistake to tear up the agreement and start over from scratch," they wrote. "We would lose time, and that would make us all losers." They also stressed that the E.U. would ratify the protocol with or without the participation of the U.S. The E.U.'s strategy - and those of the U.S. and Japan - may become...
...music in confusing and conflicting file formats that will drive you underground to a Napster clone like Aimster. So every portal needs to do a deal with MusicNet and Duet--at the very least. "None of these services can survive without content from all five major labels," says Dannielle Romano, music analyst at Jupiter Media Metrix. Not to mention the hundreds of independent labels they'll need licenses from...
...late July to accommodate the new Administration. Now, the Europeans are feeling hoodwinked: though the Bush White House will send representatives to that meeting, they aren't likely to be bearing instructions to advance the process. Indeed, Greenpeace warned this week in a letter to European Commission President Romano Prodi, "It seems likely that the U.S.A. will attempt to block decisions...
...today about globalization and its consequences. Ever-closer union means that money, goods and services are more easily exchanged-but it also means that maladies like bse can seep across borders with less resistance. "It is virtually impossible to isolate the European countries from one another," European Commission President Romano Prodi said recently. "We are all one big country." But such bromides only bolster European fears about lost national identity and fuel suspicions that even the most basic concerns of life, such as what we eat, are determined by the ruthless logic of the global marketplace and the unaccountable corporations...
...veto, and also managed to win agreement on the need for further talks to define the limits of E.U. authority over member states - a concern that Berlin shares, in different ways, with Britain and France. The most telling response, perhaps, came from the European Union commissioner, Italy's Romano Prodi. "I cannot hide from you a certain regret that we did not manage to go further," Prodi told reporters at the summit's conclusion. And that's hardly surprising, coming from a man whose job it is to actually run the behemoth...