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Nasdaq - Tue Nov 10, 6:32 am ET
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European Union finance ministers Tuesday urged the Greek government to restore confidence in its economic data. Greece in recent years regularly has revised economic estimates, including the measure of its government budget deficit.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 8:19 am ET
Brussels - European Union citizens are now able to check how bad for their health industrial plants near their homes are, after the EU's executive on Monday opened an online tracker for the main pollutants. The register will give citizens direct acc...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 10, 10:05 am ET
Brussels - European Union finance ministers agreed Tuesday to raise the minimum level of taxes applied on cigarettes across the bloc in a bid to cut smoking and reduce tobacco smuggling. As from January 1, 2014, the minimum excise rate will increase ...
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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
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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.
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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.
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Rocky Mount Telegram - Tue Nov 10, 6:57 am ET
BRUSSELS — European Union countries on Tuesday backed new financial oversight rules for banker...
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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.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 10, 5:34 am ET
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...
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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.
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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.
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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.