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    EU no to 5-mth maternity leave – EUbusiness Week 513

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    EUbusiness Week 513: top stories: EU strips bank secrecy from cross-border tax defences; Europe rejects five-month paid maternity leave; EU steps up generic pharma anti-trust probe; EU wants to bring down mobile phone roaming charges; EU bends rules to help farmers stand up to milk retailers; More than half of European adults overweight: study

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    10 December 2010
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    This Week’s Top Stories
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    1. EU strips bank secrecy from cross-border tax defences
    2. Europe rejects five-month paid maternity leave
    3. EU steps up generic pharma anti-trust probe
    4. EU wants to bring down mobile phone roaming charges
    5. EU bends rules to help farmers stand up to milk retailers
    6. More than half of European adults overweight: study

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    1. EU strips bank secrecy from cross-border tax defences
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    The EU claimed a long-delayed deal Tuesday removing bank secrecy as a reason for blocking information sharing, in a bid to clamp down on cross-border tax fraud and boost austerity-battered state coffers.
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/banking-tax-fraud.7ho

    2. Europe rejects five-month paid maternity leave
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    EU governments have rejected a hotly contested plan to offer new mothers five months of fully paid maternity leave.
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/parliament-women.7gq

    3. EU steps up generic pharma anti-trust probe
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    Europe has stepped up action against drug companies snarling up the entry of cheaper generic medicines onto markets, announcing spot inspections confirmed by AstraZeneca.
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/health-pharma.7fm

    4. EU wants to bring down mobile phone roaming charges
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    Mobile phone roaming charges are still too high in the European Union and efforts should be made to make them almost disappear, the Commission said on Wednesday.
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/telecom-competition.7it

    5. EU bends rules to help farmers stand up to milk retailers
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    The Commission has proposed a relaxation of normal competition rules to help Europe’s milk farmers get better deals from wholesalers and retailers.
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/farm-milk.7jx

    6. More than half of European adults overweight: study
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    More than half of European adults are now overweight and too many children smoke or are obese, raising the risk of cancer or heart attacks, a European health report shows.
    http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/oecd-obesity.7hq

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