The election of 736 members from 27 member countries to the European Parliament in June will be the biggest transnational electoral contest there has ever been. Between them they will represent more than 500,000,000 people.
European regulators slapped Intel Corp. with a record fine of $1.45 billion Wednesday after a nearly eight-year long antitrust case.
With its record $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel for allegedly anticompetitive activities, the European Commission -- the executive arm of the European Union -- is again showing its appetite for taking on and punishing big American companies.
Last summer, at Las Vegas' McCarran airport, I stood behind a frustrated Delta passenger whose delayed flight had caused him to miss a connection. He was indignantly invoking Rule 240, insisting that Delta had to put him on a flight with another carrier, which elicited a chuckle from the agent.
The Dutch government on Friday approved an economic stimulus package worth up to 8 billion euros ($10 billion) to help the country cope with the global financial crisis.
Governments have stepped in to save teetering lenders and to reassure depositors. But banks have lost confidence in each other
The Indian government said Wednesday it is sending food and equipment to help the estimated 3 million people in a flood-ravaged area of the country's northeast.
The European Commission slams the EU newcomer for failing to crack down on corruption and organized crime -- and cuts off funding worth hundreds of millions of dollars
Who says the European Union is undemocratic? Its citizens will have the chance to vote for the design of the new two-euro coin
An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
The election of 736 members from 27 member countries to the European Parliament in June will be the biggest transnational electoral contest there has ever been. Between them they will represent more than 500,000,000 people.
European regulators slapped Intel Corp. with a record fine of $1.45 billion Wednesday after a nearly eight-year long antitrust case.
With its record $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel for allegedly anticompetitive activities, the European Commission -- the executive arm of the European Union -- is again showing its appetite for taking on and punishing big American companies.
Last summer, at Las Vegas' McCarran airport, I stood behind a frustrated Delta passenger whose delayed flight had caused him to miss a connection. He was indignantly invoking Rule 240, insisting that Delta had to put him on a flight with another carrier, which elicited a chuckle from the agent.
The Dutch government on Friday approved an economic stimulus package worth up to 8 billion euros ($10 billion) to help the country cope with the global financial crisis.
Governments have stepped in to save teetering lenders and to reassure depositors. But banks have lost confidence in each other
The Indian government said Wednesday it is sending food and equipment to help the estimated 3 million people in a flood-ravaged area of the country's northeast.
The European Commission slams the EU newcomer for failing to crack down on corruption and organized crime -- and cuts off funding worth hundreds of millions of dollars
Who says the European Union is undemocratic? Its citizens will have the chance to vote for the design of the new two-euro coin
An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
Inflation in the 13 nations that share the euro surged to 3 percent in November, the highest level since consumers began using the currency in 2002, the EU statistical agency Eurostat said Friday.
Launched in London, the Humanitarian Response Index ranks Sweden at the top with the US trailing far down the list
The impact of the Green Card has been noted by the European Commission, which hopes to capitalize on its success
The European Union's second highest court dismisses the software giant's appeal against an anti-trust order
The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain
The traditional British pint of beer is here to stay after the European Union finally ceded in the battle to convert the country's traditional imperial measures to metric versions.
Sudan expelled the top Canadian diplomat and the European Commission envoy from the country for what was described as "meddling in its affairs," the state news agency reported Thursday.
Poland's Gdansk shipyard, the birthplace of the anti-communist Solidarity movement, has submitted a last-ditch rescue plan to prevent its closure.
E.U. subsidies have spurred big surpluses and made the continent uncompetitive with "New World" wines. Now reform is afoot
The European Commission has expanded an informal probe into whether the licensing strategies of two rival groups of DVD developers are anti-competitive by seeking information from film studios, the EU executive said.
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The EU has given the green light to the former Soviet bloc countries, Romania and Bulgaria, to join the 25-nation union from January 1. However, EU's latest arrivals are facing the toughest entry conditions in the blocs' history.
U.S. stocks were set to open lower Monday, as investors await the latest signals from Federal Reserve officials, with tech issues expected to bear the brunt amid a possible restatement by Dell and word of an expanded antitrust probe of Intel in Europe.
The European Commission is due to fine Microsoft on Wednesday as part of a hard-line approach towards getting the software giant to comply with antitrust sanctions that appears to be bearing fruit.
European Union veterinary experts have backed plans to boost surveillance of migratory birds and impose stricter bans on imports as officials desperately tried to find ways to curb the spread of deadly bird flu on the continent.
The dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu that has killed more than 60 people in Asia, has now been found in Croatia, the European Union has announced.
European Union officials say bird flu had been found on one of the Greek isles and tests were being conducted to determine if it is the deadly H5N1 virus.
The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in Turkish poultry and is likely present in Romania, the European Commission has said.
Security was tight around the mountain town of Davos, Switzerland as global political and business leaders gathered for the annual World Economic forum.
French President Jacques Chirac has warned that "silent tsunamis" of despair, such as unemployment, are plaguing the world, and called on those attending the World Economic Forum help others.
The European Union has launched an aggressive anti-smoking drive with grisly photos of rotten lungs, throat tumors and decayed teeth that it hopes will be used on cigarette packets.
The European Commission is expected to recommend that Turkey start accession talks with the European Union after 40 years of stop-go negotiations.
The European Commission has recommended -- with conditions -- that the European Union start accession talks with Turkey after 40 years of on-off negotiations.
Although the broader market took a hit Thursday, tech stocks remained slightly above breakeven, partly helped by gains in the chip sector.
Technology stocks lost ground Friday on high oil prices and lowered earnings forecasts, failing to close higher before the weekend in keeping with a mostly upbeat performance over the last two weeks.
More Europeans than ever before would consider working in another country, according to new research.
European Union leaders have unanimously nominated Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso as next European Commission president.
Portugal's prime minister will be officially proposed as the next European Commission president following a painstaking search for a replacement for the outgoing Romano Prodi, it has been announced.
European Union leaders have overcome their differences to agree to the bloc's first constitution and must now push ahead with their search for a compromise candidate to be the next European Commission president.
Technology stocks managed a second day of gains Tuesday, restrained by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's comments on interest rates but buoyed by oil prices, which fell to six week lows.
The European Commission has again stopped the clock on its review of Oracle's $9.4 billion bid for rival PeopleSoft to seek more information on the markets affected, the EU said Thursday.
Jewish and European leaders have called for concrete action to combat a resurgence of the "monster" of anti-Semitism on the continent.
Technology stocks on Monday posted their highest close in 2-1/2 years as investors counted on upcoming earnings results of companies ranging from Yahoo! to Apple Computer, slated for release later in the week.
Ever since he killed the GE-Honeywell merger, Mario Monti has been casting a darker shadow. Now it's Microsoft's turn to feel the menacing gaze--and sweeping power--of Europe's antitrust sheriff.
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