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EU calls for bank collapse fund

The European Union’s finance executive on Friday called for banks to pay into a fund that could be drawn upon in case of collapse.

Are IP addresses personal information?

Internet protocol (IP) addresses, a string of numbers that identifies a computer, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union’s group of…

De Beers backs Africa on diamond cutting

De Beers group managing director Gareth Penny on Monday called on diamond traders in Europe, the United States and Israel to back Africa’s efforts to cut and polish its own…

Microsoft spars with rivals over code access

Microsoft sparred with its rivals on Thursday about how much information it should give them to make servers more compatible as judges questioned both sides about what code could…

Microsoft, EU get ready to square off

Microsoft began a challenge on Monday before the European Union’s second-highest court of the European Commission’s landmark antitrust ruling against it, arguing that the future…

Sword of Damocles hangs over Microsoft

Microsoft said at the start of a final day of hearings with European Union (EU) regulators on Friday that it was more optimistic about its antitrust battle and still hoped to…

New EU offer to cut agricultural tariffs

The European Union offered on Friday to reduce average agricultural tariffs by 47%, its steepest farm tariff cuts to date, in a proposal aimed at breaking a deadlock in world…