After not flying for a year, SAA nearly botches humanitarian flight to Brussels — among other infringements — and then delays reporting the issue
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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Brussels on Thursday for a showdown with EU leaders
British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Thursday begin trying to sell her Brexit deal to Parliament
Britain has ramped up its economic growth outlook for next year, when the country will exit the European Union
Concern is mounting that Britain will exit the EU in March without a deal in place with Brussels
The country’s rightwing government broke the law by logging in one of Europe’s last primeval forests setting up a clash between Brussels and Warsaw.
A vast network of people have been linked to terrorist organisation the Islamic State that claimed responsibility for the Paris and Brussels attacks.
A man arrested in connection with the Brussels bombing was released after no evidence found was linking him to the attacks, according to prosecutors
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Following attacks in Paris and now Brussels, investigators continue to track down those responsible.
South African diplomatic workers in the capital of Belgium were unharmed by Tuesday’s attacks.
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One of the el-Bakraoui brothers is believed to have provided ammunition and weapons for the Paris attacks.
Belgium’s neighbours have rallied in support after this week’s ‘acts of war’ that shook Brussels.
Four days after the arrest of a suspect of the Paris attack that killed 130 people, blasts have gone off at Brussels airport and a metro station.
Brussels has condemned Spain for planning to go against European Commission rules and not focus on its targets.
A prankster has released footage of the leader of Belgium’s Catholic Church, mired in sex and homophobia scandals, being hit by custard pies.
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Jacob Zuma on Wednesday told European parliamentarians that lifting sanctions against Zimbabwe would help the country work through its problems.
Banks will be more closely scrutinised under EU plans unveiled on Wednesday to apply lessons from the credit crunch and better protect investors.
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Spiralling state debt is fuelling concern that the eurozone could splinter despite official assurances that a break-up is all but impossible.
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EU finance ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how to mitigate one of the bloc’s sharpest economic downturns in decades.
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Inspired by ancient Alexandria’s attempt to collect the world’s knowledge, the EU launches on Thursday its Europeana digital library.
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European Commission president José Manuel Barroso’s plan to grant €1-billion in aid for African farmers has run into trouble over financing.
The European Union is on track to hit its short-term target for reducing emissions of the gases that create global warming, but challenges remain.
Former Democratic Republic of Congo leader Jean-Pierre Bemba on Wednesday asked Belgian authorities to release him and vowed to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) that ordered his arrest for alleged war crimes. He was arrested on Saturday in a suburb of the Belgian capital, Brussels, on an ICC warrant.
World number two brewer InBev was on the verge of merger talks with Anheuser Busch, a newspaper said on Tuesday, while consolidation fever drove up shares in global leader SABMiller. SABMiller shares shot up as much as 8,2% to a 19-week high of £13,24.
The worst of the financial-sector crisis is over, although the impact on the broader economy will likely drag on in coming months, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Thursday. "There are good reasons to believe that the largest part of disclosure in financial institutions has been done," he said.
A British government agency has told the European Commission that Microsoft Office works poorly with rival software used in British schools. Programs must meet the same standards to work together but the British agency said Microsoft offers only its own ”open standard” rather than effective support for Open Document Format.
UBS, the Swiss bank that has been Europe’s biggest casualty of the credit crunch, is to axe 5Â 500 jobs. Of those 2Â 600 face compulsory redundancy, mainly in its stricken investment banking arms in London and New York, as it struggles to regain its reputation and investor confidence.
Microsoft on Friday lodged an appeal at a European court against the record €899-million fine imposed on it by the EU Commission for defying a landmark anti-trust ruling. "Microsoft today filed with the Court of First Instance an application to annul the Commission decision of February 27," a spokesperson for the US software giant said in Brussels.
Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war ”very close”, a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday. Separately, the ”foreign minister” of the breakaway Black Sea region was quoted as saying it was ready to hand over military control to Russia.
Georgia on Wednesday slammed Russia’s plans to boost peacekeeping troops in two rebel Georgian regions as the start of "full-scale military aggression". "It’s hard to believe that this is being done for the purposes of peacekeeping; it’s rather the beginning of full-scale military aggression," Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze said.
The European Union launched the second and final test satellite for its ,3-billion rival to the United States Global Positioning System on Sunday, brushing off industry doubts over its viability. The Galileo project, Europe’s biggest single space programme, has been plagued by delays and squabbling over funding.
European biodiesel producers said they were asking Brussels on Friday to impose punitive import duties on United States biodiesel but their US rivals said they would hit back with a complaint of their own. The trade in biofuels has surged due to growing demand for alternatives to fossil fuels as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.