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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 1, 12:43 pm ET
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s Alistair Darling will push fellow European Union finance chiefs to scale back proposed banking rules that could force EU governments to use taxpayer funds to prop up failing institutions in an emergency.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 2, 4:16 am ET
Brussels - The European Union on Wednesday welcomed the United States' pledge to send an extra 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, but stressed that civilian efforts would be as important as military ones to win the conflict. EU states are divided over the...
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UPI - Fri Dec 4, 10:29 am ET
BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Dutch parliamentarian Friday confirmed reports Holland would approve an interim trade agreement for Serbia at the EU Council of Ministers meeting next week.
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INO News - Thu Dec 3, 6:26 am ET
(AP:BRUSSELS) Utility GDP Suez SA has avoided European Union antitrust fines by striking a binding deal with regulators Thursday to open up French gas import capacity to rivals.
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UPI - Tue Dec 1, 9:05 am ET
BRUSSELS, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- European Union rules will change to allow Serbs, Macedonians and Montenegrins and travel visa-free to Europe, EU interior ministers have decided.
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UPI - Tue Dec 1, 8:18 am ET
JERUSALEM, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- European Union ministers suggested Jerusalem be the capital of Israel and any future Palestinian state, a report by Sweden, the rotating EU president says.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 1, 5:17 am ET
Stockholm - The European Union entered a new era on Tuesday when the Lisbon Treaty came into force, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said. Sweden currently holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation bloc. Reinfeldt was scheduled to atte...
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The Inquisitr - Thu Dec 3, 9:01 am ET
With the vast number of developments in the neurology field, coupled with crazy new robots appearing on what almost seems to be a daily basis, it was only a matter of time before a thought-controlled prosthesis occurred. Now thanks to a group of European Union scientists we have the Lifehand. Lifehand is a thought-controlled prosthesis that’s [...]
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 1, 7:43 am ET
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s Alistair Darling will push fellow European Union finance chiefs to scale back proposed banking rules that could force EU governments to use taxpayers’ money to prop up failing institutions in an emergency.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 7:47 am ET
Madrid - The European Union does not regard this week's elections in Honduras as normal -but wants to find a political solution for the crisis in the Central American country, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Thursday. Moratin...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 6:35 pm ET
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has scrapped a planned meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy this week, his office said Thursday amid a row over remarks by the French leader about EU financial regulation.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 2, 11:39 am ET
European Union countries agreed Wednesday on the powers that new financial oversight agencies would hold after an intense debate that pitted France and Germany's tighter regulatory traditions against Britain's more hands-off approach.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 11:32 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers overcame a clash between the U.K. and France to reach an agreement on overhauling financial supervision for the bloc.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 10:58 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers reached a compromise on overhauling Europe’s financial supervision with a new set of regulators, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said.
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New York Times - Fri Dec 4, 11:08 am ET
“Ottomania,” nostalgia for the glorious history of the Ottoman empire, has seized Turkey, partly as a reaction to the European Union’s seeming cold shoulder.