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Venezuelans need the European Parliament to continue to highlight Hugo Chávez's expropriation of property. In a vote not noted in the pages of European Voice, the European...

Activists disrupt business conference on climate change. Police arrested 24 climate activists this morning after they disrupted a business conference on climate change being...

How US business is taking up the green cause. At the end of the 1990s, US business seemed lost to the green cause. After the US signed the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse-gas...

Eastern Europe's untouched nature is under threat from over-exploitation. More than half of the European population of brown bears, wolves and lynx are found in Romania and...

Being green begins at home. That is what environmentalists and, increasingly businesses, are arguing must be the case if the risk of dangerous climate change is to be...

News that Arcelor's latest defensive move against Indian-born entrepreneur, Lakshmi Mittal is to try to ram through a merger with Russian steel mogul Alexei Mordachov's...

THE European Commission is attempting to give a boost to corporate governance standards across the EU by creating a forum to discuss how best to converge national codes. The...

ALTHOUGH it was an open secret who was going to take on the job, the new co-chairs of the beleaguered TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) have finally been confirmed....

EU COMPETITION authorities are set to extend the exemption from anti-trust rules allowing airlines to set up fare agreements for certain categories of tickets. The European...

FORMULA One's governing body has signed a deal with the European Commission ending their acrimonious six-year dispute over broadcasting and commercial rights. Under the...

FRENCH building materials group Lafarge must seek fresh approval for its agreed takeover of Blue Circle Industries, a European Commission source said this week. This comes...

Chapman CAPTAINS of US and EU industry are set to activate the early warning system in a bid to help their political counterparts avert new trade battles over everything...

THE European Commission this week cleared plans by the UK's Vodafone Airtouch to take over German rival Mannesmann to form the world's largest mobile phone operator, after...

THE European Commission this week cleared Canadian aluminium supplier Alcan's purchase of Swiss rival Alusuisse, but with conditions attached. However, French aluminium...

Schroders/Takko ModeMarkt Goliath Sechsundneunzigste Beteiligungs und Verwaltungsgesellschaft, controlled by British bank Schroders, notified the Commission on 7 February of...

THE European Commission announced this week that it had extended the deadline for ruling on a planned merger between supermarket giants Carrefour and Promodes for two weeks...

Dura/Adwest CAR industry components firm Dura Automotive Systems Inc notified the Commission on 11 February of its plan to acquire rival Adwest Automotive Plc. (OJ C42, 17...

OIL giant BP holds the key to European Commission clearance of the mega merger between US counterparts Exxon Corp and Mobil Corp, according to industry analysts. They believe...

AN IN-DEPTH investigation has been launched by the European Commission into the planned merger between UK publishing and information company Reed Elsevier and Dutch...

COMPETITION Commissioner Karel van Miert has unveiled clearer guidelines on how the European Commission will set fines for abuses of anti-trust rules. Under the system, which...