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Belgium

Type: Country

Name: Belgium

population: 10,443,010

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 5 mins ago - 2 reports

Finnair Oyj

Finnair Cargo adds capacity to Belgium

Two months after launching service from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Brussels Airport, Finnair Cargo will grow its Belgium operations even more. Beginning 6 June, Finnair Cargo will increase airfreight capacity to and from Brussels ... [Published Air Cargo Week - 5 mins ago]

Entities: Finnair Oyj, Belgium, Brussels, Brussels Airport Co, Cargo Ship

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

Amazon.com Inc

EU leaders look to end Apple-style tax avoidance schemes

Growing concern in European capitals about aggressive tax avoidance by high-profile corporations such as Amazon, Google and Apple looks set to steal the agenda of a European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday. ... [Published International Business Times Canada - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tax Avoidance, European Union, Amazon.com Inc, Brussels

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

European Union

Tax avoidance creeps onto EU summit agenda

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies at a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing in Washington. (Reuters)| | A AAGENCE FRANCE PRESSELast Update 21 May 2013 9:03 pmBRUSSELS: Minimal tax paid by conglomerates ... [Published Arab News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: European Union, Tax Avoidance, Taxes

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 5 reports

One pricey racing pigeon sold for world record $400K to Chinese businessman

APPigeons fly inside their coop at Pigeon Paradise in Knesselare, Belgium. Lightning fast pigeon Bolt with a name and pedigree to match has become the world's most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for $400,000 to a Chinese busin ... [Published New York Post - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Belgium, Brussels, Knesselare (Belgium)

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

Brussels plays down import duty fears

European Commission challenges study which estimated widespread job losses as a result of anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels ... [Published FT.com - World, Europe - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Brussels, Solar Panels, Layoffs

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 3 reports

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

Dacic-Ashton meeting under way

BRUSSELS - A meeting between Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton started shortly after 4 pm Tuesday in Brussels as part of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on the implementation of the agreement initialed last ... [Published Tanjug - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Brussels, European External Action Service, Ivica Dačić, European Union

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 reports

European Association Summit

Following in the footsteps of Washington for the United States, Brussels has established itself as Europe’s Power City. It is home to five of the main European Institutions and NATO, as well as hundreds of offices of multinational corporations and international ... [Published Bedouk.com - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Brussels, Belgium, United States, Economies of Scale

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 4 reports

Dačić, Thaçi to discuss implementation of agreement reached

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić will meet with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thai on Tuesday in Brussels in the framework of the EU-facilitated dialogue.The discussion will be led by the European Unions (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine ... [Published New Europe - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Ivica Dačić, Kosovo, Serbia

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Talks on agreement after next Brussels meeting

Head of the Kosovska Mitrovica District Radenko Nedeljković stated on Monday that Kosovo Serbs cannot block the implementation of the Brussels agreement.The talks on the agreement and its implementation with government representatives in Belgrade would ... [Published B92 - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Brussels, Kosovska Mitrovica, Ivica Dačić

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

MSC Belgium makes port of Antwerp more secure

Criminals are constantly on the lookout for new ways to steal, not least in ports. MSC Belgium is the first ship’s agent to introduce a new container release system that enables customers to collect their containers quickly and efficiently in a secure ... [Published Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide - 21 hours ago]

Entities: PSA Corp Ltd, Belgium, Antwerp

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 4 reports

Case registered on stolen diamonds worth R 4.5 crore

Police in Mumbai has registered a case of theft after diamonds worth Rs. 4.5 crore were stolen from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in the India's financial capital.An employee of the employee of a diamond trading firm, which was reportedly ... [Published Topnews.in - May 20 2013]

Entities: Belgium, Mumbai, Air Cargo, Police

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 9 reports

Germany on collision course with Brussels over solar panel row with China

A German national flag in front of solar panels in Bad Hersfeld. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister put Berlin on a collision course with Brussels by warning that imposing anti-dumping duties on solar panels ... [Published Irish Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Solar Panels, Brussels, Germany, China

Quotes

"Eastbound, the service from Brussels hub offers fast and same-day freighter connection to Hong Kong and enables connections to Finnairs Asian destinations" Finnair Cargo officials add

Finnair Cargo adds capacity to Belgium [Published Air Cargo Week - 5 mins ago]

"The current lack of visibility on energy policies and regulatory uncertainty will inevitably lead to an absence of energy investments with negative effects on security of supply, employment and reactivation of the European economy" the joint statement said

Eni, 7 other companies call for revived EU energy policy [Published Reuters - 18 mins ago]

Vice President of Kalmar Global Crane Services, Gert Jan Doornewaard said, "Crane modification offers an innovative solution to ports who need to increase their container handling capacity relatively quickly. With the ever-increasing capacity of container ships, quay cranes need the additional hoisting height and often boom reach too in order to off load containers.”"

Kalmar Heightens Six Quay Cranes at MSC Terminal [Published Marine Link - 26 mins ago]

"I want to keep the discussion [polite]. This not the tone that I am used to" Swoboda said

European Socialist group head rejects claims of backing ruling AKP [Published Turkish Daily - 34 mins ago]

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