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Phone companies concerned about EU plans. Mobile-phone companies are warning that the EU's bid to cap prices for roaming services could reduce, rather than increase,...

Parliament goes further than Commission proposal. MEPs' attempts to win even tighter caps on the cost of using a mobile phone abroad are running into fierce opposition from...

Industry and consumer groups to suggest how to regulate excessive charges levied on mobile phone use. The European Parliament's industry, research and energy committee will...

Buzek wants Belgian police to take charge as MEP is mugged in park near Parliament building. The mugging of an MEP in Brussels last week has prompted Jerzy Buzek, the...

Dutch commissioner-designate called before European Parliament again after poor showing in nomination hearing. Neelie Kroes, the European-commissioner designate for digital...

Dutch candidate for the European Commission's digital portfolio fails to live up to her reputation. Neelie Kroes went into her hearings for a second term as European...

German MEP had a long wait after attack. German centre-right MEP Angelika Niebler was robbed last week (13 October) on rue Stevin in the Euroquarter of Brussels.

The chairman of the European Parliament's industry committee has a forthright manner, which sometimes borders on bluntness. His critics describe Herbert Reul as opinionated;...

Liberals take control of two financial committees and Germans to lead legislative committees. Members of the new European Parliament went into their first plenary meeting...

Italian Mario Mauro likely to head foreign-affairs committee. German MEPs are tipped to chair three of the most powerful legislative committees in the next European...

Industry committee drops demand for full unbundling in bid to secure support of member states. The Czech presidency of the EU late last night reached a deal with members of...

Agreement sought on €5bn spending plans; call for improved financial regulation, The Czech presidency of the European Union faces a major test of its ability to broker...

Parliament warns of cost of failure to agree; plans for independent national regulators resisted. Telecoms ministers are at loggerheads over future reform of industry...

Industry committee members split over targets and timetables. A decisive vote by the European Parliament's environment committee on a law to reduce carbon emissions from...

Greens and left-wing MEPs manage to keep target for 2020 reduction. An influential committee of MEPs voted on 1 September to give carmakers more time to reduce carbon...

European Parliament supports retention of the right to separate telecoms operations and changes plans for super-regulator. MEPS yesterday voted to allow national...

The telecoms market has been able to develop to the benefit of industry and consumers without the need for functional separation. In November 2007, the European Commission...

MEPs are preparing a raft of amendments to the European Commission's plans to modernise EU rules governing the communications sector. The European Parliament is gearing up...

MEPs back unbundling of ownership as the only way to liberalise the energy market, setting the stage for a clash with the French and German governments. MEPs on the...

Chairwoman of Parliament's industry committee says MEPs are opposed to creation of a European telecoms market authority. Proposals for a pan-European telecoms regulator from...