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The Champaign News-Gazette - Tue Nov 24, 11:33 am ET
STRASBOURG, France (AP) – The United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European Union said Tuesday. With two weeks to go before a global climate conference, the EU urged Washington and Beijing to come to the Copenhagen event with meaningful bids to check their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 3:31 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- European Union regulators dropped a four-year-old investigation into Qualcomm Inc. after companies that accused the chipmaker of charging excessive royalties on technology patents withdrew their complaints.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 12:10 pm ET
China called on the European Union Tuesday to step up cooperation on climate change, saying global warming would be at the top of the agenda at next week's China-EU summit.
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San Jose Mercury News - Tue Nov 24, 8:57 am ET
STRASBOURG, France — The United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European Union said today.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 24, 12:53 pm ET
Nine of the 27 candidates to be the European Union's new commissioners are women, the commission president announced Tuesday -- the first time that so many women have been nominated for senior EU posts.
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UPI - Tue Nov 24, 11:20 am ET
BRUSSELS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The European Union warned Spain it may not cut off Internet access to suspected content pirates without EU-determined due process of law.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 4:27 am ET
Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 41 minutes ago
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- WestLB AG , Germany’s third-biggest state-owned bank, may face further conditions on additional government aid, European Union regulators said.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 8:20 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union will require automobile tires to have fuel-efficiency labels in three years under new environmental legislation in the world’s biggest consumer market.
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Detroit Free Press - Tue Nov 24, 3:25 am ET
European Union officials said no decision on granting aid to General Motors Co.'s Opel unit will be made until a meeting next month. Opel will inform unions this week about its restructuring plan, acting chief Nick Reilly told reporters after meeting with EU officials Monday. Industry ministers will discuss the plan Dec. 4, Flemish regional leader Kris Peeters said.
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World Tribune - Tue Nov 24, 10:09 pm ET
Analysts said the Turkish military has refused to submit to EU transparency standards in numerous areas. They said the most obvious ones included information on programs, funding and recruitment.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 3:44 pm ET
William Kennard, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has resigned from the board of the New York Times Co. to become the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
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Nasdaq - 1 hour 0 minutes ago
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Union's main business lobby has asked European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet to push China to let its currency appreciate.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 1:41 pm ET
The European Union's top executive on Tuesday refused to rule out a bloc-wide tax on its half-billion population, in remarks sure to raise eurosceptic hackles.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 12:23 pm ET
European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees.