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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11008
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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) competition

Judge endorses Mastercard ruling

Brussels, 30/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - In an opinion issued on Thursday 30 January in case C-382.12 P, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi recommends that the European Court of Justice endorse the May 2008 General Court ruling confirming the European Commission's December 2007 ban on multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) levied on traders by MasterCard for use of its credit cards (see EUROPE 10620). He recommends rejecting all the arguments raised by MasterCard, two MasterCard subsidiaries, and...

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EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) UKRAINE: EU is not ready to face “disaster scenario”
(AE) UKRAINE: Ashton calls for end to violence and real dialogue
(AE) THAILAND: Ashton calls for dialogue and restraint
(AE) RWANDA:
(AE) TRADE: Russian embargo due to swine fever in Lithuania affects whole of EU
(AE) CUBA: Change in direction of relations increasingly clear
(AE) UNITED STATES:
SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) ETS/ICAO: MEPs back an ETS applied to European air space
(AE) TRANSPORT: Single Sky pick and mix liberalisation of support services
(AE) INDUSTRY: Montebourg insists EU should help industry
(AE) REGIONS: As elections approach COR's watchword is “trust”
(AE) REGIONS: Regions examine anti-crisis role of culture
(AE) WOMEN: S&D up in arms against spanish draft abortion law
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Improving school distribution programmes
(AE) AGRICULTURE: Heading for Parliament's rejection of draft law on seeds
(AE) FOOD SAFETY: FVO criticises management of French poultry slaughterhouses
(AE) JHA: MEPs confirm their rejection of CEPOL-Europol merger
(AE) JHA: Malta makes concessions on its sale of passports
(AE) JHA:
(AE) DIGITAL: Europe must not miss out on big and open data
(AE) HEALTH: CHRODIS joint action on chronic diseases under way
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) BANKING: Trench warfare over bank resolution
(AE) BANKING: Opposition to bank reform plans
(AE) COMPETITION: Out-of-court Google deal may be on the cards
(AE) COMPETITION:
(AE) COMPETITION:
(AE) STATE AID:
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
(AE) DIGITAL: PACE wants white paper on internet and democracy
(AE) PACE: Support for measures similar to US Magnitski law
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
(AE) JHA: Interpretation of the concept of “internal armed conflict”
(AE) COMPETITION: Judge endorses Mastercard ruling