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Lord Mandelson tells Gordon Brown: make me foreign secretary
Brussels :: Belgium | 2 days ago
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The business secretary is secretly pressing Brown to hold a cabinet reshuffle so he can achieve his life-long ambition of running the Foreign Office. Mandelson made the request after he was snubbed for the post of European Union foreign minister at last...
Tags: Jonathan Oliver Gordon Brown, Mandelson, David Miliband, foreign secretary, business secretary, Brussels, prime minister, lord mandelson, Belgium, Gordon Brown, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Herbert Morrison, Labour Party, Life peers, Jewish atheists, Peter Mandelson, Politics
EU must not stifle investment, warns Mandelson
Brussels :: Belgium | 18 days ago
Credibility EU must not stifle investment Business secretary warns against European Union's proposed regulation on hedge funds and private equity firms Peter Mandelson: 'The EU must remain an attractive destination for venture capital.' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty...
Tags: Peter Mandelson, European Union, Pierre Lellouche, Britain, business secretary, French Europe, David Cameron, Lord Mandelson, India, Christine Lagarde
GM decision to keep Opel angers German government, unions
Magna :: UT :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Smith, GM's group vice president for corporate planning and alliances. But in Germany, the automaker's decision was seen as a blow to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had lobbied hard for the sale of Opel to Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank.
Tags: Vauxhall Peter Mandelson, Germany, Opel, business secretary, General Motors Co., sell vauxhall, use carmaker, Magna, lord mandelson
Postal union to take legal action
London :: United Kingdom | 21 days ago
Credibility The Communication Workers Union has told Royal Mail 's management that it plans to launch a court case by Wednesday to stop the employment of agency staff to undermine the escalating postal strike. The union has been a give a legal opinion by John Hendy...
Tags: Lord Mandelson, legal action, The Communication Workers Union, face legal, The Royal Mail, business secretary, higher education, postal strike, agency staff
Mandelson confident filesharing rules will work
Watford :: United Kingdom | 27 days ago
Credibility Business secretary Lord Mandelson has said he is confident his plan to stop illegal filesharing will be approved by parliament and that the measures will be as effective as France's tough "three strikes" policy. "The French approach is based on criminal...
Tags: Peter Mandelson, Lord Mandelson, business secretary, Britain, internet connections, internet pirates, France, secretary peter, service providers
UK to get tough on file-sharers
London :: United Kingdom | 28 days ago
Credibility Speaking at a government-sponsored forum to debate copyright issues he said the UK would introduce a similar policy to France. It means persistent pirates will be sent two warning letters before facing disconnection from the network...In France the government...
Tags: Vivendi, France, Peter Mandelson, Lord Mandelson, Jean-Bernard Levy, Britain, illegal downloaders, illegal filesharers, business secretary, internet piracy
Post strike goes ahead
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Royal Mail strike goes ahead Talks between postal service and Communication Workers Union fail to avert two-day stoppage beginning Thursday Members of the Communication Workers Union will strike on Thursday and Friday. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Rex...
Tags: Royal Mail, Communication Workers Union, Lord Mandelson, Britain, postal strike, strike goes, goes ahead, national postal, mail strike, business secretary
Politics › Japan needs to welcome foreign investment, UK minister says
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Britain’s business secretary urged Japan to ease restrictions on foreign investment and expressed hope in the new government’s “internationalist stance.” Wrapping up a three-day visit to Tokyo that ended Tuesday, Peter Mandelson said Japanese regulatory...
Tags: Bank of Japan, Democratic Party of Japan, Peter Mandelson, extra budget, business secretary, Britain, Tokyo, Yukio Hatoyama
Emergency Labour debate on Mail
Brighton :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The union has been staging strikes across the country in a bitter row over jobs, pay and services. More than 100,000 postal workers are being balloted on a national strike, with the result due early next month. Plans to part privatise Royal Mail were...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Brown Updated, Labour Party, Emergency Labour, Tories if Labour, Mandelson, prime minister, labour conference, business secretary, general elections
Mandelson hits back over spending
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility On Wednesday the Conservatives said leaked Treasury papers showed the government covered-up plans for cuts. But Lord Mandelson told Reuters Television that officials' figures were used "selectively" and did not represent ministers' plans. The papers suggested...
Tags: UK Trade and Investment, UK Trade & Investment, emerging market, Philippines, China, Lord Mandelson, business secretary, global investors, uk firms, India Almost, United Kingdom, London
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