The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft counters accusations from European antitrust officials that the company has not supplied other firms with sufficient technical information.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on why EU policy threatens innovation.

2. ENVIRONMENT

The leader of the Anglican Church alleges that without reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, global warming could cause “billions of people to die.”

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray writes to the Archbishop to suggest an alternate point of view.

3. LEGAL

A court arbiter allows tobacco companies to reduce their payments to states according to the terms of their 1998 legal settlement.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the status of the settlement payments.

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