Ryanair sues European Commission over competition complaint
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Ryanair, the Irish low-cost carrier, said Tuesday it would sue the European Commission over &quot;its repeated failure&quot; to tackle &quot;illegal&quot; state aid to rival European airlines.
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Business & money: Airline accuses Brussels of ignoring repeated 'bullshit recapitalisations' of near-bankrupt Alitalia.
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Budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC threatened to take legal action against the British government unless it meets three demands for relaxing airport security and improving staffing at overstretched airports within the next seven days.
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Low-cost airline Ryanair is criticised by advertising watchdogs for making misleading claims about punctuality.
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Microsoft said Tuesday it has appealed a July fine by the European Commission with the Court of First Instance, the European Union's second highest court. It also called the additional fine unfair, and blasted the EC for being vague.
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The chief executive of Ryanair, the brash-talking budget airline expanding across Europe, said Thursday he won't pay a single cent of a 4 million euro (&#36;4.8 million) fine imposed by European Union competition authorities.
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Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft in the European Union, accusing it of stifling competition by tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to Windows, the Norwegian company said Thursday.The complaint, which was filed with the European Commission on Wednesday, says Microsoft is abusing its dominant position in the desktop PC market by offering only Internet Explorer as a standard part of Windows, and hindering interoperability by not following accepted standards with IE.Opera is asking the Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, to force Microsoft to unbundle IE from Windows, or include other browsers as a standard part of its operating system. It also wants it to require Microsoft to adhere to industry standards with its Web browser.The issue of standards is seen as important because if all Web browsers do not use the same standards, Web site developers are likely to design their Web sites to work with the most widely-used browser, which is Internet Explorer. That gives people a disincentive to use other browsers.Microsoft&#39;s spokesman in Brussels did not immediately have a comment on the lawsuit. The company has argued in the past that consumers benefit from its tight integration of IE and Windows.Opera said it filed the complaint on behalf of all consumers who are tired of having a monopolist make choices for them.The Commission is expected to comment at its daily midday briefing Thursday.The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), a Brussels-based trade group that counts Opera among its members, said it strongly endorses Opera&#39;s move.&quot;By tying its Internet Explorer product to its monopoly Windows operating system and refusing to faithfully implement industry accepted open standards, Microsoft deprives consumers of a real choice in internet browsers. Browsers are the gateway to the internet. Microsoft seeks to control this gateway,&quot; said Thomas Vinje, speaking for ECIS.Opera&#39;s complaint signals a potentially new front in&#160;Microsoft&#39;s long-running battle with the European authorities, and comes three months after the Court of First Instance (CFI) -- Europe&#39;s second highest court --&#160;threw out Microsoft&#39;s appeal of a 2004 European Commission antitrust ruling against it.The CFI endorsed the Commission&#39;s finding that Microsoft had illegally bundled its media playing software, Media Player, into Windows, exploiting its monopoly in the desktop operating system market to gain influence in the market for desktop media player software.Opera&#39;s complaint against the bundling of IE into Windows uses the same legal argument.However, the Commission&#39;s remedy against Microsoft&#39;s bundling has proved useless, which may weaken the value of the 2004 ruling as a legal precedent.The Commission ordered Microsoft to sell a second version of Windows that has Media Player stripped out. Microsoft christened the second version Edition N, and put it on the market in 2005, at the same price as the fully bundled Windows. Not surprisingly, no one bought it.&#160;
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The European Commission takes Britain to court over its treatment of cross-Channel shoppers.
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British bank HBOS announced it would file a complaint to the European Commission regarding Santander Central Hispano's (SCH) multi-billion-pound bid for Abbey National due to competition issues.
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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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Tell us more The US Government faces a lawsuit demanding information about the controversial programme which forces airlines to disclose information about European travellers to the US.â¦
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The Bush administration dramatically escalated a dispute with the European Union yesterday by filing one of the biggest complaints in World Trade Organization history, accusing European governments of illegally subsidizing Airbus SAS, the continent's airplane manufacturer and a global competitor of Boeing Co.
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Airport operator BAA must pay half the compensation bill slapped on budget airline Ryanair for discriminating against a disabled man who had to pay for a wheelchair when he turned up to take an international flight, a court has ruled.
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Europe&#39;s two biggest low-cost airlines, Ryanair and easyJet, have stepped up their competition in Spain, forcing down fares and causing turbulence for the nation&#39;s domestic carriers like Iberia.
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The European Union&#39;s top competition watchdog on Wednesday blocked Ryanair&#39;s takeover of Irish airline Aer Lingus, a move the low-cost carrier has already vowed to appeal.
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EFF wants to know how data is used The US Government faces a lawsuit demanding information about the controversial programme which forces airlines to disclose information about European travellers to the US.â¦
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Low-cost airline Ryanair has been criticised by advertising watchdogs for making misleading claims.