
Your search for "Business" produced 257 items.
| 1. The road to productivity | February 9, 2012 |
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Improving competitiveness through regulatory reform. The EU summit on 30 January focused on competitiveness, growth and job creation (“A different kind of response?”, 2-8... | |
| 2. Tough new accounting rules face major delay | February 8, 2012 |
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International standards could be held up by a year. The implementation of tighter international standards dictating how much information companies have to include in their... | |
| 3. Hungarian airline collapse leaves passengers stranded | February 3, 2012 |
Malév blames Commission state-aid decision for driving it out of business. |
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| 4. Commission blocks stock exchange merger | February 1, 2012 |
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NYSE Euronext says its planned merger with Deutsche Börse has been rejected by the European Commission. The European Commission has decided to block the planned merger... | |
| 5. COO, cabinet DN | January 19, 2012 |
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Are you the new | |
| 6. The many perks of being an Italian politician | January 19, 2012 |
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Why Germans are reluctant to help Italians. In a recent letter (“Fear and irrationality hold sway in eurozone's decision-making”, 5-11 January), Mauro Galluccio proposes... | |
| 7. Talks on Greek debt restructuring break down | January 14, 2012 |
Disagreement persists over terms of new Greek bonds; new talks scheduled for 18 January. International banks and financial institutions broke off talks with the Greek... |
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| 8. Danes pledge to push the business agenda | January 12, 2012 |
Patent will be a problem for the Danish presidency. Denmark wants to ‘fast- track' business-friendly legislation during its six-month presidency of the EU's Council of... |
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| 9. Commission seeks to reduce banking fees | January 6, 2012 |
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Barnier says fees are holding back growth and competition. The fees that banks charge each other for processing payments will be in the firing line as the European Commission... | |
| 10. No money, no status | January 5, 2012 |
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Hard times for the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments. Pity the European Commission's Service for Foreign Policy Instruments, which has money, but no status. It is... | |
| 11. Barnier bids to overhaul EU public procurement rules | December 20, 2011 |
Tendering procedures to be streamlined. Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for the internal market, today unveiled wide-ranging proposals to change the way that... |
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| 12. Trade ministers agree new procurement rules | December 15, 2011 |
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EU, US, Japan compromise to pave way for updated Government Procurement Agreement. The European Union has agreed with the United States and Japan to open up their... | |
| 13. Elected dirty dealers | December 2, 2011 |
There is an obvious step that could be taken to limit legislators' ability to profit from their inside knowledge. Imagine that you are an elected member of the United States... |
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| 14. Movers & Shakers | November 24, 2011 |
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María Rosa Aldea Busquets, head of the unit for treasury management in the European Commission's budget department, has been appointed director for budget execution in the... | |
| 15. Twelve steps to success? | November 24, 2011 |
The European Commission has come up with 12 ways to advance the single market. The Single Market Act is a misnomer. It is not an act – in the sense of agreed legislation... |
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| 16. Šefčovič squares up to staff unions over pay | November 24, 2011 |
Commission prepares for confrontation with staff over pay and conditions. The college of European commissioners has embarked on a confrontation with European Union staff over... |
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| 17. Executive decisions | November 17, 2011 |
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Angela Mills Wade on her career dealing with the major players in the media. Two decades ago, Angela Mills Wade was introduced to influential newspaper executive Frank Rogers... | |
| 18. A bridge to Asia | November 17, 2011 |
Doing business in Asia can be daunting, but there is an EU scheme that can help. Significant cultural and linguistic barriers exist for European companies wanting to export... |
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| 19. EU seeks Chinese money | October 28, 2011 |
The head of the EU's bail-out fund is trying to convince Beijing to support the eurozone rescue package. Klaus Regling, the head of the eurozone's rescue fund, is in China in... |
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| 20. Business in brief | October 27, 2011 |
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Telecoms concerns | |