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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10823

10 April 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 8 / 31
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Complaint lodged against Google's abuse of Android

Brussels, 09/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - A group of competitors, including Microsoft, Oracle, Nokia, Expedia and Tripadvisor, members of the FairSearch coalition, announced on 9 April that they have lodged a complaint against Google with the European Commission for anti-competitive practices in Google's use of its operating system for mobile phones, Android. The companies claim that Google is using Android, which is the most widely used operating system for mobile phones, as a Trojan horse to...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Prelude to overall recovery of European economic and political activity
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) PORTUGAL: Freezing of non-vital spending - more measures on way
(AE) ECONOMY: Further improvement in macroeconomic imbalances
(AE) IRELAND/PORTUGAL: Noonan says loan extension decision next month
(AE) TAXATION: Austria to negotiate partial end to banking secrecy
(AE) EP/ECONOMY: Troika invited to give clarifications on Thursday 25 April
(AE) COMPETITION: Investigation into Mastercard's inter-bank fees
(AE) COMPETITION: Complaint lodged against Google's abuse of Android
(AE) STATE AID: Investigation into aid to Belgian football clubs continues
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: First step towards creating green product single market
(AE) BIODIVERSITY: Greenpeace sounds alarm on risk to pollinators
(AE) JHA: SIS II finally on track
(AE) JHA: MEPs say yes to provisional suspension of visa-free regimes for Balkans
(AE) HEALTH: Doctors of the World sound alarm on access to healthcare
(AE) ENERGY: EU supports further cooperation with Iceland on geothermal energy
(AE) DIGITAL: Germany must change plans on call termination rates
(AE) DIGITAL: “.eu” successfully celebrates seventh anniversary
(AE) REGIONS: Danube strategy must step up a gear
(AE) REGIONS: 100th Committee of the Regions plenary with Martin Schulz
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) SERBIA: Ashton calls on Serbia to strive to reach an agreement
(AE) BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA: April's high level dialogue meeting cancelled
(AE) MONTENEGRO:
(AE) NORTH KOREA: European citizens should stay in the country
(AE) ICELAND: Food safety chapter about to be opened
(AE) IRAN: Enough substance for negotiations to continue
(AE) INDIA: Free trade - NGOs speak out over access to medicines
(AE) TRADE: Ever more trade-remedy action against China
(AE) MOROCCO: Funding civil society projects
(AE) LIBYA:
INSTITUTIONAL
(AE) SLOVENIA: Bratusek's top priority is to solve banking problem
(AE) CITIZENSHIP: First promising year for European Citizens' Initiative