Europe motorway merger fails
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The approved merger of Spanish toll road operator Abertis with Italian counterpart Autostrade is cancelled.
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Shares in the Italian motorway operator Autostrade have been suspended from trading on the Milan stock exchange pending the release of a statement as its shareholders met to decide on a merger with a Spanish group.
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Business & money: Â·  European parliament blocks EC initiative Â·  Businesses and unions unite in denunciation
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The merger of Spanish toll road operator Abertis with Italian counterpart Autostrade is approved by EU regulators.
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European governments failed to agree Friday on how to salvage their troubled satellite navigation system, Galileo.
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The failure of the cash and shares transaction, which would have given the Austrian government an effective blocking minority over the combined group's Austrian operations, comes as a severe blow to both ...
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Swedish truckmaker Scania AB on Friday formally rejected a 10.3 billion euro ($13.3 billion) hostile takeover bid by German rival MAN AG, saying talks had broken off between the companies.
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Last-ditch talks in Finland on Monday between the European Union and Turkey aimed at averting an EU crisis with Ankara over the Cyprus issue have failed, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said.Comment
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The European Commission was wrong to bar the takeover bid by U.S. telecoms firm WorldCom for rival Sprint, a European Union court said on Tuesday, annulling the action taken four years ago.
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French unions won a legal bid to postpone  a crucial board meeting of Gaz de France  on its  planned 80 billion euro ($102.5 billion) merger with utility  Suez , dealing a blow to the government-backed deal.
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Top European and U.S. officials failed   to reach agreement on Monday on replacing a deal to share air   passenger data which is due to expire on September 30, European   officials said.
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The proposed merger of French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France (GDF) hit last-ditch problems amid shareholder wrangling and a court victory for trade unions which threatened to hold up the deal.
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Plans to merge Swedish truck-maker Scania with Germany&#39;s MAN and parts of Volkswagen have been called off, according to a report quoting an unidentified manager involved.
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European Union efforts to abolish barriers against hostile takeovers within the 27-nation community have failed, the European Commission will warn in a report out on Tuesday, the Financial Times said.
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Telecom wins the overturn of four-year-old merger denial.
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Italian Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa has said that a merger of Italian highway operator Autostrade and the Spanish group Abertis was now possible.
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Competition Commissioner Mario Monti suffered an embarrassing defeat in a Luxembourg court this week - it ruled that his decision on the Sprint-Worldcom merger was illegal.