EUROPE:  For Big Business, Accountability Still a Foreign Word
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BERLIN, May 22 (IPS) - On Mar. 15, 2006, Noel Forgeard, at the time chief  executive officer of the European aerospace corporation EADS,  sold, apparently without any reason, some 170,000 shares he owned  of the company, making an instantaneous profit of almost five  million U.S. dollars.
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It was held up by politicians two  years ago as a model for economic revival for others in Europe.  Now England's northeast is a frontline for the impact of a  credit crisis that began in California.
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As Greeks get a boost, it remains unclear if success will mean higher stature in Europe.
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The first draft of a new EU treaty can now be read in French and English, but what it means for the EU's half a billion people is not yet easy to determine.
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BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - For the European Union, 2007 was a year rich in  events, but poor on results. Next year promises to be as  turbulent as this one, and probably as unremarkable in its  outcome.
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Trade, apart from peace and prosperity, is always held up as the great EU success story. If only the EU could get its act together in other areas, such as foreign affairs, it would be a global power, the argument runs.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - Productivity in the European Union grew last year, but still lags behind the United States, according to a report by a New York-based research group.
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FDI fell one-third in Central and Eastern European countries from 2002 to 2003. The &quot;skilled but relatively cheap workforce&quot; in the eight new EU member countries did not pull in investment as strongly as expected
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The fundamentals of Europe's economy are sound, but more transparency is needed in markets in light of recent turmoil, five key European leaders said after a mini-summit.
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A wave of business scandals in the past few years has focused much more attention on how companies are run, but even many investor watchdogs don't exactly agree on how to assess corporate governance.
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G.E. is using strong overseas sales to reshape its image in Europe, where hard feelings still linger from its aborted effort to acquire Honeywell in 2001.
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BUCHAREST, Feb 15 (IPS) - Still "on probation" from Brussels,  Bulgaria is taking bold steps to persuade the European  Union  that it is efficient in getting rid of corruption and organised  crime.
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BRUSSELS : Europeans accustomed to sneering at China as a producer of cheap shoddy goods must realise the world&#39;s most populous country is taking a great leap forward in the technology stakes, according to a new report that urges the EU to innovate or
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The European Union has launched a new drive to reduce its regulatory burden on companies, in a bid to tackle one of the most frequent complaints made by business.
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The Christian Science Monitor - American attempts to persuade Europe to think again about financial involvement in Iran may be starting to bear fruit, according to European banking officials. Whether such "back-door sanctions" will work is far less apparent, experts say.
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Two summers ago, I returned from a visit to Eastern Europe convinced that Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were on the fast track to prosperity. It seemed to me -- and virtually every one of the Western business executives I spoke with -- that these countries had tasted enough of...
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Europe's bigger economies register yet more productivity growth, while the UK starts to fall behind.