ROUNDUP EU launches deficit measures vs UK drops action vs Poland
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- ROUNDUP EU launches deficit measures vs UK drops action vs Poland
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- EU says in process of studying response from Poland over Gdansk…
ROUNDUP EU launches deficit measures vs UK drops action vs Poland
Forbes – Jun 11, 2008
The UK is forecast to exceed the threshold this year and next. The commission said the expected breach could not be qualified as ‘exceptional’ under the stability and growth pact nor as temporary. ‘This suggests that the deficit criterion.
… foreign minister says US could complete missile defense…
International Herald Tribune – Jun 11, 2008
plans to build a missile defense system in Europe are not dependent on a deal with Poland. The United States is near completion of a deal to install radar in the Czech Republic as part of the planned defense system. Talks with Poland about basing 10 missile interceptors there are bogged down over Polish demands for military aid. Russia strongly opposes the plans. Schwarzenberg said that the United States could find other places to install the interceptors if Poland should refuse them. “They could as well be on a ship in the Baltic or the Northern Sea. They could be in one of the Baltic countries” he told The Associated Press.
EU says in process of studying response from Poland over Gdansk…
Forbes – Jun 11, 2008
Separately the commission said on Tuesday it needs to be convinced by restructuring plans put forward by the Polish government for the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards to avoid a decision demanding repayment of aid. Polish Treasury Minister Alexander Grad will be in Brussels on Friday for discussions with European Union (EU) competition commissioner Neelie Kroes on the matter. In June 2005 the commission opened a formal inquiry into Polish shipyard aid worth at least 1. 3 billion euros and said at the time it would only be deemed legal if it was accompanied by ‘meaningful restructuring plans’.
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