NEW DELHI — Hundreds of people marched in New Delhi on Friday to protest an ambitious free-trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union that patient groups and health activists say could severely curtail India’s production and export of affordable drugs for millions living with HIV in developing countries. Read full article > >

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India-E.U. trade pact could boost AIDS treatment costs, health workers say

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of people marched in New Delhi on Friday to protest an ambitious free-trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union that patient groups and health activists say could severely curtail India’s production and export of affordable drugs for millions living with HIV in developing countries. Read full article > >

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India-E.U. trade pact could boost AIDS treatment costs, health workers say

Regulators from the European Union have requested that Google to hold off on rolling out its new privacy policy. In a letter to Google chief executive Larry Page, privacy regulator Jacob Kohnstamm said that European data protection officials would like to examine how the changes to Google’s privacy policy may affect European citizens. He also called for a “pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google’s commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens” until the analysis is done. Read full article > >

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EU regulators ask Google to delay new privacy policy

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarians celebrated joining the European Union eight years ago by chopping through the barbed wire that separated them from Austria, eliminating a final vestige of the Iron Curtain. But after years of financial crisis, many here in Europe’s heart are questioning their westward ties. Read full article > >

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Hungary grows weary of European Union

The bloc, however, still showed few signs of producing a comprehensive solution for the sovereign debt crisis or a credible plan to revive fragile economies.

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European Leaders Agree to New Budget Discipline Measures

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos suggested that the three leaders in his fractious coalition were prepared to back additional austerity measures and reforms needed to receive a second bailout.

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Greek Coalition Partners to Back New Reforms

World leaders at Davos now operate in a new atmosphere of popular discontent and economic turmoil in which even democracies have been shaken and disillusioned.

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Davos 2012: Across the World, Leaders Brace for Discontent and Upheaval

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George Soros Takes Critical Stand

Against the European Union.

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George Soros Takes Critical Stand

Croatians are set to vote on joining the organization, which has become mired in a debt crisis that threatens its very essence in the decade since the country first applied for membership.

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Croatia Wavers Over European Union as Allure Fades

European Union countries will need to sell billions of dollars in bonds every week in 2012 to replace existing debt, and policymakers and investors are watching debt auctions for signs of weakness.

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DealBook: For Europe, Few Options in a Vicious Cycle of Debt

European Union countries will need to sell billions of dollars in bonds every week in 2012 to replace existing debt, and policymakers and investors are watching debt auctions for signs of weakness.

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DealBook: For Europe, Few Options in a Vicious Cycle of Debt

France and Germany, the European Union’s key powers, insisted Monday that private creditors must take losses to help over-indebted Greece right its finances, but they also warned the Greek government that E.U. rescue funds will be held back unless it makes a deal soon with the increasingly nervous banks holding its debt. Read full article > >

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France, Germany warn Greece to make debt deal

In Berlin, there is a deep consensus among policy makers and economists — bordering on orthodoxy — that austerity and growth are not enemies. They are comrades.

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News Analysis: Germany Resists Europe’s Pleas to Spend More

In the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, some of the most troubled financial firms also doled out whopping bonuses to their top executives. In response, the United States — along with the UK and the European Union—imposed new regulations on executive pay, with the rationale that executive pay was overly skewed to reward short-term profits and encouraged risky behavior that undermined a sound financial system. Read full article > >

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Do bankers’ bonuses reward risky behavior?