Brussels 'broke law' over merger
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The European Commission is told to compensate a firm whose takeover it was found to have wrongly blocked.
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Business & money: Â· Brussels sets benchmark for competition cases Â· Commissioner sounds warning to other big firms
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The European Commission was wrong to block the proposed $120 billion merger four years ago between MCI WorldCom and Sprint, a European court ruled today.
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The British government has signaled its opposition to the creation of a European defence industry giant by the merger of the European aerospace group EADS and the French-British defence electronics group Thales, the Observer reported.
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Court should not have blocked the company&#39;s Sprint takeover bid after the merger was abandoned. LUXEMBOURG  - The European Commission made a bad call when it blocked a takeover bid by US telecoms
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The European Court of Justice says companies have the right to move to another EU state to cut costs.
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Italy's broadcasting system, dominated by  Mediaset and state-owned RAI, breaks EU rules because it fails  to foster competition, Europe's top court has found.
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International credit card company  MasterCard Inc  may have violated European Union  antitrust rules by restricting competition between banks, the  EU&#039;s top competition authority said on Friday.
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Business & money: Michael O'Leary criticises expected European commission decision to stop his low-cost airline taking over Ireland's national carrier Aer Lingus.
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The Office of Fair Trading takes legal action against a Belgian mail-order firm, using new cross-border powers for the first time.
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Europe's betting industry says a German law banning online gambling breaks European Union law.
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The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy rules, top government ...Comment
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France appeared to have removed a threat to one of Europe's largest energy deals on Sunday after the boards of Suez and Gaz de France voted on a politically charged merger delayed by disputes over strategy and control.
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Credit card company MasterCard drew a rebuke at a closed European Commission antitrust hearing last week after claiming incorrectly that Britain had dropped an investigation into its fees, people who were present said.
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The new rules, which still require the approval of the European parliament, put an end to a situation in which several European jurisdictions made it impossible for companies to merge with counterparts from ...
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French energy group GDF disagrees with all of the complaints raised by the EU anti-trust regulator about its proposed merger with fellow French group Suez, GDF trade union representives told AFP.
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The future of controversial European Union legislation that would allow for some software patents was in doubt Thursday after the Polish government switched sides, saying the directive could hurt small and medium-sized businesses.