-
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 6:05 am ET
Stockholm/Berlin- The search for the first president of the European Union was set to dominate behind-the-scenes talks in Berlin on Monday as EU leaders gathered to commemorate the fall of the Iron Curtain. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to ...
-
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 5:34 am ET
Jakarta - Indonesia and the European Union on Monday signed a partnership agreement intended to bolster cooperation in areas such as trade, the environment and counter-terrorism. The agreement was the first of its kind between the EU and a South-East...
-
Nasdaq - Tue Nov 10, 3:02 am ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union finance ministers won't make a final decision Tuesday on how to end state guarantees for banks' debt, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia said.
-
San Francisco Chronicle - Mon Nov 9, 8:39 pm ET
European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. The so-called "statement of objections" that Sun received... Sun Microsystems - Oracle - Oracle Corporation - European Union - Competition law
-
UPI - Mon Nov 9, 2:29 pm ET
BRUSSELS, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Racial, gender, age and other forms of discrimination are on the rise in European Union nations, particularly among the young, a survey indicates.
-
Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 2:45 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- BASF SE , the world’s largest chemical company, Akzo Nobel NV and Arkema SA may be fined by the European Union this week for fixing the price of a chemical used in plastic production, said five people with knowledge of the case.
-
Rocky Mount Telegram - 9 minutes ago
BRUSSELS — European Union countries on Tuesday backed new financial oversight rules for banker...
-
Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 12:50 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said that European Union leaders are still split on who should be appointed as the 27-nation bloc’s first president.
-
EARTHtimes.org - 1 hour 32 minutes ago
Brussels - The European Union's executive has launched an anti-trust probe into news group Thomson Reuters, to investigate whether its real-time business data feeds may be set up to keep competitors out of the market, the European Commission announce...
-
Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 10:09 am ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Czech central bank Governor Zdenek Tuma was nominated as the country’s next European Union commissioner by Prime Minister Jan Fischer after the premier came under pressure to take the job himself.
-
The Forex Market - Tue Nov 10, 12:08 am ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)--The online jobs market in the European Union improved in October for the first time since February as some optimism returned across the region, particularly in France and the U.K., a survey showed Tuesday.
-
Nasdaq - Mon Nov 9, 12:02 pm ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Union should extend its tolerance of Austria's extraordinary state support for its banking system, Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell said Monday.
-
INDOlink - Mon Nov 9, 9:03 pm ET
Brussels, Nov 9 (AFP) Somali pirates have launched their deepest attack into the Indian Ocean, firing rocket propelled grenades at a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker, the European Union anti-piracy mission said today.
-
EurekAlert! - Mon Nov 9, 10:35 am ET
( Technische Universitaet Muenchen ) A three-year project called CAMbrella will receive nearly 1.5 million euros ($2.25 million) of European Union funding to establish a research network for the study of complementary medicine. The Center for Naturopathic Research at "Rechts der Isar," the university hospital of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen will coordinate the project for the winning ...
-
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 2:46 pm ET
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul on Sunday -- a trip that the European Union had objected to because of his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) .