3 July 2009, 2:31 am
Portugal's economy minister has resigned after making an insulting gesture during a parliamentary debate, damaging the image of the Socialist government three months before a general election... Read More »
2 July 2009, 7:14 pm
The European Commission is to issue new rules under which moves by public sector broadcasters to expand their activities into new areas such as mobile TV will be subject to prior scrutiny... Read More »
2 July 2009, 6:06 pm
Europe's highest court rules that the beermaker with the same name as the southern German state should in principle be allowed to continue to use its trademark... Read More »
1 July 2009, 8:02 pm
Bavaria, the brewer that shares a name with a region in southern Germany, awaits judgment by the EU's highest court on whether its brand violates geographic protection laws... Read More »
1 July 2009, 7:10 pm
France and Brussels want a UN standards body to draw up a global blacklist of aircraft deemed unsuitable to fly amid concerns over the lack of co-ordination between countries on safety alerts... Read More »
1 July 2009, 6:52 pm
Ivo Sanader, Croatia's prime minister, has resigned citing 'personal reasons', including his frustration with the slowness of the country's final steps to join the EU... Read More »
1 July 2009, 6:44 pm
Tehran warns the 27-nation bloc that it is no longer qualified to hold negotiations on the Islamic republic's nuclear programme after allegedly meddling in its presidential election... Read More »
1 July 2009, 1:43 pm
Sweden, the new holder of the EU presidency, came to the defence of hedge funds and private equity, saying it did not blame them for the financial crisis and would press for improvements in EU proposals to regulate them... Read More »
1 July 2009, 3:06 am
The European Union's financial sector faces potential losses so large that the bloc's governments cannot afford the risk of borrowing more money to boost Europe's economy, says Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's prime minister... Read More »
30 June 2009, 7:04 pm
The European Food Safety Authority pushes aside doubts raised by several European Union member states and concludes that MON810 is as safe as traditional corn crops... Read More »
30 June 2009, 4:24 pm
Delegates visited Washington last week to give warning of the threat to British and US companies from a proposed European directive on alternative investment fund managers... Read More »
30 June 2009, 12:37 pm
RBS was 'highly dangerous' to Europe's single market and too complex to understand, Neelie Kroes, EU competition commissioner, warned as she stressed the need for significant asset sales there and at Lloyds... Read More »