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In principle carbon border taxes are a good idea. In practice they could be a gift to protectionists CARBON PRICES are the most cost-effective way to fight climate change--but for [...]

Faced with a future where ride-hailing could reduce car ownership, Toyota and Volkswagen became the latest carmakers to invest in startups that provide such services. Toyota formed a partnership with [...]

Electronic data interchange (EDI) refers to the exchange of structured business messages in electronic form among organizations. The European Commission is encouraging companies based in the EU's member countries to adopt EDI through its Trade Electronic Data Interchange Systems (TEDIS) program. The impact of TEDIS on the implementation of EDI by European firms is investigated.

Pfizer, the drug company behind Viagra, and Allergan, which makes Botox, agreed to combine in a $160 billion deal, the biggest to date in the pharmaceuticals industry. Both companies conduct [...]

Byline: Graham Dunn & David Learmount london Suspension of intercontinental flights from EU emissions system ends political deadlock and puts ball in ICAO's court Europe's concession to suspend intercontinental flights [...]

The European Energy Charter has undergone considerable changes since its introduction to the EC in 1991 by Dutch Prime Ruud Lubbers. The most recent draft of the charter is less 'mandating' than the original, with provisions implying that the EC may foster energy development assistance agreements with other countries. Consequently, analysts predict that the final draft will become more of a forum for discussion rather than a clear and binding law., The European Energy Charter, designed to lead the way for investors to redevelop the east's energy sector, has been greatly diluted in negotiations. Thomas Waelde concludes that it will become [...]

The power of CRSs as marketing tools and their potential for misuse as anti-competitive instruments have fired the regulation debate since the early 1980s. Mark Odell examines the issues surrounding [...]

Czech Republic: European Commission raids CEZ offices THE EU's competition commissioner has made unannounced inspections at the premises of CEZ, the Czech Republic's biggest utility. Jonathan Todd, spokesman for the [...]

New policies set to take effect this year are expected to increase competition in the European payments market. As part of the European Union's efforts to create a single, continentwide [...]

UTA has been proffered in sacrifice, but the details of the agreement with the EC Commission look sketchy, says Jacqueline Gallacher. Observers of the agreement between France and the European [...]

What may be in the news * THE European Commission unveils a comprehensive energy policy on Wednesday January 23rd in an effort to limit carbon emissions, increase energy security and [...]

Gentle persuasion may not be enough to create a single payments area THIS week 59 banks put their name to a project to enable direct debits across European borders by [...]

When talks on a transatlantic common aviation area started in 2003 they were billed as a chance for Washington and Brussels to set a liberalisation template that others could follow. [...]

Europes airlines have given a mixed but generally cool reaction to the European Commissions (EC) guidelines on state aid and airports. The strongest opposition has come from the European Low [...]

Nationality clauses are still an issue two years after the European Court of Justice invalidated them in bilaterals between individual European Union members and third countries. Such clauses, which limit [...]

The European Union Commission has accused the payment card association Cartes Bancaires and nine member French banks of violating competition rules. In a press release Thursday, the commission, which is [...]

The European Commission has ruled that some of the subsidies Ryanair received from a Belgian airport are illegal. The decision threatens the low-cost airline's sweeteners from a host of regional [...]

The European Commission has responded to business leaders' calls for tougher penalties for counterfeiters. But the world is awash in fake goods and the pirates are getting ever more organised [...]

'Where is the discrimination against air transport?' asks Loyola de Palacio. As the Commissioner in charge of the European Commission's (EC) transport and energy policy, de Palacio has a host [...]

Sorry Peter, no can do, says Frits Investment firms goof up their lobbying in Brussels SOMETIMES you can lobby too hard. That was the mistake made by Peter Sutherland of [...]

The European Commission (EC) has put forward proposals that would allow it to curb the abuse of state subsidies by carriers outside the European Union (EU). It is asking for [...]

Why it does not pay to second-guess Europe's antitrust regulators RARELY has a merger been so accident-prone. When Schneider announced its euro7.2 billion ($6.6 billion) takeover of Legrand, a local [...]

European airlines are fighting legislative proposals from Brussels which could see denied boarding compensation multiplied fivefold. The European Commission is proposing that compensation rises to as much as e750 ($655) [...]

The European Commission is proposing that unspecified 'initial quantities' of zero-sulphur gasoline and diesel should be made available from 1 January 2005 -- when Auto-Oil II specifications take effect. Auto-Oil [...]

The regulation, which was adopted by the ECon 20 June, but still has to make its way through the European Council and Parliament, drew an immediate and angry response from [...]

Austro-German deal in question The European Commission (EC) has warned Austrian Airlines that its co-operation agreement with Star Alliance partner Lufthansa on several routes between Austria and Germany threatens competition. [...]

Stricter noise standards for new aircraft have emerged from the latest meeting of ICAO's Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) held in mid-January. However, the group was unable to reach [...]

With some close attention to detail, most franchise systems will be able to benefit from the exemption granted by the regulation without suffering from the pitfalls. The big event in [...]

Financial institutions have not signed on to the 'safe harbor' privacy agreement hammered out in July by negotiators from the United States and the European Union, but they ought to, [...]

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC) has approved the Danish scheme for tradable carbon dioxide emission permits, which is the first of its kind in the European Union. The State will allocate [...]