irishtimes.com Breaking News:
The European Commission will miss a deadline for proposing a plan to overhaul the European Union budget this year because its president is still putting together his new leadership team, EU officials say. (Read More)
FT.com - Brussels:
President aims to ignore lobbying from member states as he begins final deliberations over the composition of the next European Commission. (Read More)
irishtimes.com Breaking News:
The next European Commission should be in place by the end of January, Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said today. (Read More)
Reuters:
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The European Commission closed antitrust proceedings against Qualcomm as big technology companies dropped their four-year old complaints against the U.S. mobile chip supplier.
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BBC:
The European Commission drops its probe into claims that US chip maker Qualcomm abused its dominant position in the mobile technology market. (Read More)
FT.com - Brussels:
Big countries seek heavyweight economic portfolios as closing date nears for nominations to the next European Commission. (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
The world's biggest aluminium producer, Alcoa, has halted production at its Italian plants in Sardinia and Veneto after the European Commission ordered the company to pay back what it considers as preferential electricity tar (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
A leading group of MEPs on Friday (20 November) warned European Commission President José Manuel Barroso not to create a separate climate action department in the next EU executive, as rumours abound in Brussels that the envi (Read More)
Reuters: Mergers News:
BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The following are planned
mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief
guide to the EU merger process:
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FT.com - Brussels:
As the horse trading begins, read FT.com's guide to the jobs that matter and a who's who of the names in the frame for posts on the European Commission. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Foreign companies could be sued more easily in US courts under legislation working through Congress that has led to concerns in the European Commission. (Read More)
FT.com - Brussels:
The European Commission has warned that it will be months before it decides whether to support a radical overhaul of accounting rules on how banks and other financial institutions value their assets. (Read More)
FT.com - Brussels, Competition:
The European Commission extends the deadline for approval of Oracle's proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems. (Read More)
Financial Times:
The race to secure senior jobs in the next European Commission has intensified with the big member states keen to secure the most important economic dossiers. (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
European Commission representatives are in France this week to encourage young people to consider a career in languages, amid fears that the EU executive will face a "serious shortage" of French-language interpreters within f (Read More)
Bloggingportal.eu - Today's posts:
European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso emerges as a clear winner from all this. He had been nervous about being elbowed off the EU stage by a strong European Council president and undermined in his own Commission (Read More)