Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Sep 2006 23:04 UTC
European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said the US government tried to influence its decision over a 280.5 mln eur fine for software giant Microsoft, newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad said. The US embassy in Brussels had contacted Kroes and asked her to be a bit 'nicer' to Microsoft before she had taken the decision to fine Microsoft in July, Kroes said in an interview.
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2005-07-07
oddly enough, the EU has no problem with Europe-based AirBus taking subsidies from multiple EU nations
That has actually been tried at the WTO, but it got nowhere since Boing on the other hand is getting lots of subsidies through exlusive military contracts