Article | February 21, 2012 - 9:51am
The European Commission cleared the proposed creation of SENAGRAL, a joint venture to be controlled by SENOBLE and AGRIAL, two French companies operating in the dairy sector.
Article | February 20, 2012 - 11:56am
On 15 February, Cisco appealed the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's $8.5 billion takeover of Skype, citing the possibility that Microsoft may take Skype in a proprietary direction and impede interoperability with other vendor's video offerings.
Article | February 15, 2012 - 6:32pm
Calls from UK Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the World Economic Forum for a more intimate trade relationship between the EU and the US may be a an appealing prospect, but any such deal in practice would have to overcome significant barriers.
Article | February 9, 2012 - 11:13am
The European Commission has found an Austrian scheme to support the production of energy from renewable sources in line with EU state-aid rules.
Article | February 3, 2012 - 11:39am
After 66 years of continuous operation, Hungary's national airline, Malév, ceased all operations, at 6 am on 3 February, to minimise its losses.
Article | February 1, 2012 - 9:54am
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has used its standard essential patent right to distort competition in European mobile-device markets.
Article | January 25, 2012 - 1:46pm
The European Commission closed an investigation regarding a series of measures granted by Belgium to the Belgian Post (BPost) between 1992 and 2010, finding that part of the aid granted was compatible with the internal market, and has ordered the recovery only of the incompatible aid.
Article | January 18, 2012 - 3:14pm
The European Commission has formally launched antitrust proceedings to investigate French companies SAUR, Suez Environnement/Lyonnaise des Eaux and Veolia and their trade association Fédération Professionnelle des Entreprises de l'Eau under suspicion they have coordinated their behaviour on French water and waste water markets...
Article | January 16, 2012 - 3:35pm
The European Commission has referred the assessment of the Dutch part of a proposed combination of the activities of the Dutch companies Royaan and Ad Van Geloven (AvG) in the market for frozen snacks, to the Dutch competition authority, at the latter's request.
Article | January 11, 2012 - 3:24pm
Article | January 9, 2012 - 1:32pm
The European Commission has found that financing granted to Hungarian airliner Malév between 2007 and 2010 constitutes illegal state aid. It was stipulated that Malév, in the context of its privatisation and renationalisation, would not have been able to obtain similar financing from the market and Hungary should now recover the...
Article | December 20, 2011 - 11:22am
The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of the Spanish supplier of the baking industry Panrico by US-based alternative investment manager Oaktree.
