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Newsday - Fri Nov 27, 12:22 pm ET
Yemenia airlines escapes EU blacklist despite June crash that killed 152 people
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Nutraingredients.com - Fri Nov 27, 11:58 am ET
The latin American seed ( Salvia hispanica ) that is a member of the mint family can now be incorporated into bread products at levels up to five per cent of a product’s total matter and a major EU distributor says chia-fortified bread launches are likely in 2010.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 9:50 am ET
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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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 3:24 pm ET
More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday.
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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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San Francisco Chronicle - Wed Nov 25, 12:09 pm ET
The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing. The rules endorsed Tuesday are part of a broad... European Parliament - European Union - File sharing - Government - Multilateral
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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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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 3:35 am ET
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made it a personal priority to rein in European Union proposals to regulate financial services from Brussels, a source has said.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 4:20 pm ET
As in years past, this was a traditionally slow IT news week, especially in the U.S., where Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday was a primary focus, followed by the annual retail extravaganza known as Black Friday.
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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 - Wed Nov 25, 10:32 am ET
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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Slashdot - Fri Nov 27, 11:44 am ET
An anonymous reader points out a blog post reporting that on Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite a unanimous call by the European Parliament not to do so. "The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU ...
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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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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 2:22 pm ET
Austria and Germany were on Friday still blocking a planned accord allowing the United States to use data about European citizens in anti-terror investigations as a November 30 deadline closes in.