Topic: European Commission

Brussels should be able to reach agreement on how to regulate speculative hedge funds in the coming weeks, European commissioner Michel Barnier said Saturday."We are in the home straight," Internal Markets Commissioner Barnier told reporters at an economi

Rare birds on increase

One of Britain's rarest birds is making a comeback in the region.. . Secretive bitterns can be spotted at the RSPB's Blacktoft Sands reserve, near ...
Irish Congress of Trade Unions President Jack O'Connor has said that the national training agency FÁS should remain in operation. . . Labour...
Share THE Government is rejecting calls to close down Fás after the state training agency was embroiled in fresh controversy over how it used EU...

?4m EU grant for Offaly firm

R&R Mechanical received top ranking in a list of projects submitted to the European Commission earlier in the year. . . The firm has developed a...

Victims of human trafficking detained

The Greek Coast Guard has detained 115 migrants found off the coast of Chios in the Aegean Sea as well as two alleged human traffickers, one Turk...
Plans to create a trio of pan-European supervisory bodies have moved a step closer after the European Commission reached an agreement with member...

Thorium Rising, Murkowski Conceding

Every few months, a reporter hits upon nuclear fusion - or a fraud involving nuclear fusion - and that may set up a brief uptick in attention paid...
Google could be facing a series of awkward regulatory hurdles in Europe even if its acquisition of ITA Software is approved by US antitrust...
The proposed United Airlines-Continental Airlines merger is proceeding apace: the European Commission cleared the marriage and expressed no...