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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 8:58 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers will give Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government until 2013 to bring Germany’s budget deficit back in line with EU fiscal rules, a draft document shows.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 8:14 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jose Barroso picked Spain’s Joaquin Almunia to be the European Union’s antitrust chief and France’s Michel Barnier to lead a push for tougher bank regulation as part of a new team that will manage the EU’s $15 trillion economy as it emerges from recession.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 6:14 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia , who led the expansion of countries using the euro and helped steer the EU through the worst recession in six decades, will take over the competition portfolio in the next European Commission , an EU official said.
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EETimes - Fri Nov 27, 5:59 am ET
EBV, working with together with the Kopol independent institute, have produced an update on EuP regulations on domestic refrigerators and freezers. European Union - Refrigerator - EU - Instruments and Supplies - Laboratory Equipment
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 5:06 pm ET
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Friday he did not expect a Greek veto on Macedonia's bid to join the European Union because of an 18-year-old name dispute between Athens and Skopje.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 9:35 am ET
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union gained more powers to open the telecommunication networks of companies such as Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA in the EU’s latest push to expand services and lower costs for consumers.
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US News & World Report - 2 hours 53 minutes ago
The EU is urging countries to make more ambitious pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 6:13 am ET
European Union antitrust regulators have charged Royal Philips Electronics NV and others with running a cartel to fix the price of cathode ray tubes used in televisions and computer monitors, the EU executive and Philips said Thursday.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 11:20 am ET
Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner who for the past five years has championed consumer rights in the telecommunications and IT arenas, has been picked to take charge of a re-write of the European Union's 15-year-old data protection laws due to start next year.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 7:25 am ET
The European Union added all airlines from Djibouti, the Republic of Congo and Sao Tome and Principe to its airline safety blacklist on Friday, but Yemenia Yemen Airways avoided inclusion despite a fatal crash in June.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:01 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers will reprimand Greece next week for failing to take “credible and sustainable” measures to reduce its budget deficit toward the EU limit of 3 percent of output, a draft document shows.
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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 - Fri Nov 27, 12:50 pm ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union prohibited all airlines based in the African nations of Djibouti, the Republic of Congo and Sao Tome and Principe from flying in the bloc while further easing curbs on TAAG Angola Airlines under the latest changes to a list of unsafe carriers.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 11:51 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Guenther Oettinger was named European Union energy commissioner, responsible for guarding the bloc’s oil and gas supply security and promoting the use of cleaner technologies to protect the climate.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 3:26 pm ET
Spain will seek to establish a new bilateral agreement on EU-Cuba ties, including human rights, in the first half of 2010 when it will hold the EU's rotating presidency, its foreign minister said Saturday.