Brussels to harmonise rights for consumers By Nikki Tait in Brussels Shoppers across the European Union are to get a core set of consumer rights under new legislation which Brussels will unveil this week, in the hope of driving...
The US Senate approved by a large margin the Bush administration's $700bn plan to rescue the financial system, while European policymakers clashed earlier in the day over how to protect their own banks
By Jan Cienski in Warsaw and Nikki Tait in Brussels Poland on Wednesday battled to save its ailing shipyards as fears rose that the European Commission was preparing to issue a negative ruling over a rescue package because it...
By Nikki Tait in Brussels and Kerin Hope in AthensBrussels on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to a partial privatisation of Olympic Airways, but also said that €850m ($1.2bn) of illegal state aid granted to the loss-making...
By Nikki Tait in Brussels and Andrew Jack in London Big pharmaceutical companies will have to tread very carefully if they try to limit supplies to low-cost markets in Europe in order to prevent their drugs being exported...
By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Nikki Tait in Brussels The headwinds facing the controversial search advertising pact between Google and Yahoo intensified on Monday, as it emerged that European antitrust regulators...
By Rob Minto and Nikki TaitGoogle has bowed to political pressure from the European Union and will reduce the time it keeps user details in its search logs. In a response filed to European data regulators, the US-based...
By James Wilson in Frankfurt and Nikki Tait in Brussels Germany’s public sector banks are coming under pressure for wide-ranging reform after Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s competition commissioner, made clear she...
Ratings agencies win insurers’ support By Nikki Tait in Brussels Policymakers should focus on improving the flow of information required to assess complex securities rather than regulating credit agencies, leading insurers...
By Nikki Tait in Brussels and Peter Thal Larsen in London Corporate treasurers on Tuesday hit out at proposals from Brussels which could force credit rating agencies to meet strict regulatory requirements before being...