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84/2018 : 12 June 2018 - Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-163/16

European Court of Justice (News) - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 09:54
Louboutin and Christian Louboutin
Intellectual and industrial property
A mark consisting of a colour applied to the sole of a shoe is not covered by the prohibition of the registration of shapes

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High noon for British PM on Brexit

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 09:29
British MPs are voting on a Brexit bill that could keep the UK in the EU and destabilise the government, as the clock ticks to the exit date.
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[Ticker] Applications for free EU train tickets open on Tuesday

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 09:13
EU citizens who are 18 years old on 1 July may apply for the DiscoverEU travel programme as of noon Tuesday. Those selected will receive travel tickets worth on average €255, according to the rules. These also state that travel should be done by rail, but in exceptional cases by ferry, bus, or plane. Some 15,000 tickets will be awarded. Participants are "invited to report back on their travel experiences".
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[Ticker] Migrants to head to Valencia on Italian boats

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 09:02
The Italian coast guard will send ships to take some of the 629 migrants on board during the voyage to Valencia, Doctors without Borders and journalists on the overloaded 'Aquarius' rescue vessel said on Tuesday. The migrants were refused access to Italy and Malta, causing a political and humanitarian crisis. Several Italian mayors criticised the decision of the new interior minister, the far-right Matteo Salvini.
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Three presidents inaugurate TANAP pipeline in Turkey

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 09:00
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili will inaugurate today (12 June) the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), a key element of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC), media in the three countries announced.
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[Ticker] France and Germany 'heading toward eurozone roadmap'

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 08:58
France and Germany are "making progress toward reaching a Franco-German agreement on the roadmap for eurozone's future", said French finance minister Bruno Le Maire on Monday, according to Reuters. "We are on the right path. It's long and difficult, it takes a lot of time and determination," he said at a Parisian conference. The two biggest EU countries reportedly are trying finish the roadmap before the June EU summit.
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[Interview] Academic to probe EU's secret law-making

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 08:53
A German PhD candidate has recently started conducting interviews about how the EU's behind-closed-doors 'trilogues' actually work. "Now the fun work starts," he says.
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[Ticker] Greece: 'decisive step' taken in Macedonia name dispute

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 08:53
Greek foreign minister Nikos Kotzias said on Monday that his country and Macedonia have taken "the decisive step" needed to resolve the dispute over Macedonia's name, Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported, after prime ministers Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev had a phone call "in a good atmosphere". Kotzias reportedly said that three new names were still on the table for the country officially called Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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[Ticker] Daimler ordered to recall 774,000 diesel cars

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 08:52
The German government has ordered carmaker Daimler to recall 774,000 European diesel cars, because they contained illegal defeat devices that masked their real level of emissions during official certification tests, transport minister Andreas Scheuer said on Monday. The same day, German prosecutors revealed that Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is suspected of fraud for his role in the Volkswagen Group emissions fraud revealed in September 2015.
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Businesses, NGOs make joint plea for higher EU ambition on climate change

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:57
A unique coalition of businesses and investors representing over €21 trillion in assets have joined forces with local authorities and civil society groups to urge EU leaders to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy in order to keep global warming below 2°C.
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[Opinion] Will Europe help or hinder Ukraine in corruption fight?

Euobserver.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:56
For Ukraine's new anti-corruption court to be successful, it requires Europe to step up and end its love of dirty money.
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US unveils de facto embassy in Taiwan amid China tensions

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:54
The United States unveiled a new $256 million representative office in Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday (12 June), a de facto embassy that underscores Washington’s strategic ties with the democratic, self-ruled island as it faces escalating tensions with China.
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Trump says summit with North Korea’s Kim ‘better than anybody expected’

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:47
US President Donald Trump said a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday (12 June) had gone “better than anybody could have expected”, and they would sign a document following talks on ways to end a nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula
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Poland aims to be ‘keystone’ between diverging EU and US, says PM

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:21
Poland's rightwing prime minister has said the growing rift between the EU and the United States is a "great opportunity" for his country, which he hopes will be a "keystone" between them as trade tensions escalate.
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Lagarde says global economic outlook darkening by the day

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:03
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde led an attack by global economic organisations on US President Donald Trump's "America First" trade policy on Monday, warning that clouds over the global economy "are getting darker by the day".
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EU parliament’s ‘gravy train’ hits the buffers

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:42
Hundreds of European lawmakers and officials were left stranded for hours on Monday when an electrical fault halted their train to the EU parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg.
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How do we make a net-zero carbon economy the new normal?

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:33
As the EU Talanoa Dialogue and the Petersburg Dialogue kicks off a busy month for EU climate action, Eliot Whittington explains why now is the time for the EU to show its colours on legislation currently under consideration and make a net-zero carbon economy the new normal.
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Germany, France voice cautious hope on reviving Ukraine peace process

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:29
Germany and France voiced cautious optimism Monday that Russia and Ukraine will take steps to revive the long-stalled peace process in the smouldering Ukraine war that has claimed 10,000 lives.
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Why tracking the movement of plastic litter in the oceans is crucial

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:15
Five countries at the last G7 summit in Canada signed a Plastics Charter, recognising the need to speed up global action on marine plastics pollution. An IPCC-type framework is now needed to address the issue, writes Dr. Erik van Sebille.
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Andriukaitis: SPC manufacturing waiver does not damage pharma innovation

Euractiv.com - Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:13
The European Commission’s proposal to add an SPC manufacturing waiver on exports will not damage innovation, as the pharma industry claims, and only intends to support small and medium generic drug companies, according to EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis.
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