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Competition Policy News
Kroes should not be Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, soon to be former European Commissioner for Competition should not be allowed by the European Parliament to be confirmed in her new portfolio, which includes telecoms.
Why? Because when at her personal discretion to EU puts 9 airlines on blacklist The European Union has publicly scolded Emirates, Turkish, Royal Air Maroc and six other airlines for persistently misleading customers on their websites. The EU’s “black list”, which also includes the likes of Aeroflot, Northwest and Intel to sustain EU budget?  The business world knew it was coming, but it still resounded loudly when the European Commission, in a bid to provide computer buyers with more choice, fined US computer chip maker Intel a record 1.06 Kroes’s vision of tomorrow for Intel, and others: Obey or Pay Anti-competitive practices are punished hard in times of crises, as witnessed by California-based company Intel. The leading chip-manufacturer was fined an unprecedented 1.06 billion Euro by the Commission which said it had abused its dominant The EU Commission goes To The Opera  Opera Software, a small Norwegian company, that has produced an innovative web browser since 1994, has claimed victory in their anti-trust complaint about Microsoft's practice of forcing users of their Windows operating system to use Intel (too far) inside  American computer microprocessor chip maker Intel, which dominates the world market, might be choking on its own gagabytes pretty soon as it reportedly faces a possible new record one billion Euro (USD 1.33 billion) fine Super Mario as slippery as ever, gets reduced EU fine A European Court has reduced a multimillion-euro (dollar) fine imposed by EU officials on Nintendo after the Japanese maker of popular video game consoles and game cartridges such as Super Mario Bros agreed to cooperate EU lets Microsoft off the hook – a little The European Union has scaled back its monitoring of Microsoft in a case concerning the software giant’s publication of key communication codes, saying that the company’s good behaviour meant that full-time supervision was no longer France, Spain, now Italian car plan worries EU  The European Commission said it fears that an Italian plan to support the car industry could break EU rules, officials in Brussels said, just days after they raised similar concerns over French and Spanish schemes 1.5 bln Euro injection into Ethias allowed by Commission The European commission has approved the Belgian Government’s financial aid amounting to Euro 1.5 billion for the insurance and banking group Ethias on February 16. Corresponding with the Commission’s communication providing guidance on state aid EU probes Austrian Airlines “bargain” sale to Lufthansa  The European Commission has launched an investigation into claims that Germany’s Lufthansa may not be paying enough for Austrian Airlines in its bid to create Europe‘s largest carrier, in a deal in which the German Cartels never learn, EU raids power-cable makers The European Commission said it launched raids on unnamed companies producing high-voltage undersea cables, fearing that they are illegally fixing prices. Investigators raided the premises of a number of cable- makers between January 28 and EU says Slovakia breaches its competition rules The European Commission has ruled that a provision of the Slovak Competition Act the Commission found restrained the ability of the country’s competition authorities from implementing measures against anticompetitive practices must be amended. The opinion Competition and Conformity – Slovakia’s struggle In a recently written opinion issued by the European Commission to Slovakia, the European Commission has asked the republic to amend a provision of the Slovak Competition Act which is believed to have restrained the No hose job, EU fines cartel 131 million Euro The European Commission has slapped a 131 million Euro (USD 173 million) fine on five companies that contributed to higher petrol costs by fixing the price of marine hoses used to transfer crude oil to Commission targets Microsoft again  The European Commission on Friday late evening (Jan 16) confirmed that it is taking Microsoft to task again. The Commission filed fresh antitrust charges against Microsoft for abusing its dominant position by bundling Internet Explorer RWE signs USD 1.8 billion Bulgarian nuclear deal German energy giant RWE launched a joint venture with the Bulgarian NEK to develop the Balkan country's second nuclear power plant. The Essen-based company would invest 1.275 billion Euro (USD 1.84 billion) for a 49 Fortis sale could be downfall of Belgian PM Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme faced growing calls to quit after his office was accused of trying to influence a court ruling on the sale of the country's troubled Fortis bank reported Deutsche Presse Agentur Spanish banks concerned over losses to Madoff Several Spanish banks said on December 15 they could lose millions of Euro to the suspected scam committed by the Wall Street broker Madoff Securities, though analysts described the fall-out as minor in Spain. Experts Bargain basement petrol network for Hofer Customers of the Hofer discount supermarket chain will be able to gas-up on site beginning next year. Several Hofer supermarkets in Salzburg will open discount petrol stations run by Free Energy Trading GmbH (FE) in |
It is said that a week is a long time in politics and this week has been as long as The Commission are sometimes accused of making propaganda, especially when engaging with children, but their Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with European Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the A GMO hot potato Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes Mr. Papandreou goes to Washington There more barriers in Ukraine than in Europe Farage to Belgium: I'm sorry; but he's not apologizing to Van Rompuy Architecture in Europe Suffer Little Children Nazi Gold starts a German-Greek war of words The EU looks east: hot on the trail of Asian money, business David Cameron and the Rumble in the Jungle Banks can create and destroy -... Banks can create money. This time-cherished truth opened the way to the last credit crisis, which still threatens the world Down with the bankers, loan sharks... Europeans have rightfully blamed greedy American bankers whose blood lust for money caused the worldwide recession that put scores of EU says ok to Greek deficit... After the European Union once again delayed any decision on whether to bail out Greece as the country struggles to Farage To Belgium: "I'm Sorry"... Speaking to New Europe ahead of his meeting with Parliament President, Jerzy Buzek, the unrepentant EFD Leader spoke about being Spanish Presidency plan for electric... Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, has pledged to present a World unites in Haiti aid effort:... With the whole world watching, as Haiti tries to recover from the 7-richter earthquake that has reportedly killed 50,000, a Although the European Parliament dealt a surprise defeat to an EU-US deal that would have allowed American investigators to look US President Barack Obama on 16 February announced $8 billion worth of loan guarantees to In what is gearing up to be the event of the Defense calendar 2010, UK Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit The Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania said on 24 February that they remained to be convinced that the sale Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said his country is ready to consider new sanctions against Iran Russia’s justice system is still mired in violence and arbitrariness, despite reforms promised by Kremlin Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marked the halfway point of his four-year term in office on Will China redefine great power politics?
China is presenting its ascent not as a power shift, but as a paradigm shift. The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas |
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