International Business News - Europe http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/feed/europe.rss All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 120 30 http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/feed/europe.rss http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Business Secretary Peter Mandelson will call Friday for strong leadership of the European Union and outline his vision for revamping its economic policies. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091106/mandelson-calls-strong-eu-leadership.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223636-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091106/mandelson-calls-strong-eu-leadership.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091106/mandelson-calls-strong-eu-leadership.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:21:22 EST More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/who-built-berlin-wall-most-russians-dont-know.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/who-built-berlin-wall-most-russians-dont-know.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:43:53 EST Yugoslavia tribunal judges ordered legal counsel for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and adjourned his trial until March 2010 to give the new defense lawyers time to prepare http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/karadzic-counsel-appointed-trial-resume.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223556-karadzic-counsel-appointed-trial-to-resume-in-2010.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/karadzic-counsel-appointed-trial-resume.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/karadzic-counsel-appointed-trial-resume.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:57:44 EST An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/italy-convicts-former-cia-agents-rendition-trial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/italy-convicts-former-cia-agents-rendition-trial.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:24:14 EST British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned France's ambassador months before German's 1990 reunification of a domineering Chancellor Helmut Kohl who "sees himself as the master," diplomatic notes revealed Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/obsessed-thatcher-warned-french-rampant-kohl.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/obsessed-thatcher-warned-french-rampant-kohl.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:13:28 EST Russian military intelligence believes Georgia might again attack South Ossetia, the pro-Moscow region over which the two countries fought a war last year, a powerful spy chief said on Thursday http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/russia-spy-chief-warns-georgia-war-report.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/russia-spy-chief-warns-georgia-war-report.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:11:19 EST An Afghan policeman killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan and the Taliban said he was one of their fighters who had infiltrated the force. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/afghan-policeman-kills-five-british-soldiers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223494-afghan-policeman-kills-five-british-soldiers.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/afghan-policeman-kills-five-british-soldiers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/afghan-policeman-kills-five-british-soldiers.htm Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:00:04 EST Freed British mercenary Simon Mann said his homecoming was the "most wonderful" he could have imagined, after earlier expressing relief that his West African coup attempt had failed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/mercenary-mann-returns-uk-relieved-plot-failed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/mercenary-mann-returns-uk-relieved-plot-failed.htm Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:01:23 EST An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/italy-convicts-former-cia-agents-renditions-trial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091104/italy-convicts-former-cia-agents-renditions-trial.htm Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:54:14 EST Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has no intention of resigning even if he were convicted in one of the trials against him, he said in an interview for a book to be published next week. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091031/berlusconi-says-wont-resign-even-if-convicted.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223295-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091031/berlusconi-says-wont-resign-even-if-convicted.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091031/berlusconi-says-wont-resign-even-if-convicted.htm Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:34:57 EDT Iran has yet to give a formal response to a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel proposal after signaling it would do so this week, then leaking demands for major changes that could unravel the tentative pact. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/iaea-awaits-urgent-iran-reply-on-fuel-deal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223282-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/iaea-awaits-urgent-iran-reply-on-fuel-deal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/iaea-awaits-urgent-iran-reply-on-fuel-deal.htm Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:26:37 EDT European Union leaders resolved a funding dispute on Friday to agree a negotiating position for talks on a global deal to combat climate change. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/eu-agrees-climate-funding-deal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223272-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/eu-agrees-climate-funding-deal.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/eu-agrees-climate-funding-deal.htm Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:00:22 EDT Former French president Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial on embezzlement charges dating back to his time as mayor of Paris, an unprecedented move against a former French head of state. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/frances-chirac-ordered-face-embezzlement-trial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223270-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/frances-chirac-ordered-face-embezzlement-trial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091030/frances-chirac-ordered-face-embezzlement-trial.htm Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:53 EDT NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen hopes to secure Russian help in equipping and training Afghan security forces during a visit to Moscow in December, an alliance spokesman said on Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/nato-chief-discuss-afghan-cooperation-russia.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/nato-chief-discuss-afghan-cooperation-russia.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:08:53 EDT The German parliament formally elected Angela Merkel to a second term as chancellor on Wednesday, although by a smaller margin than expected, paving the way for her center-right coalition to take office later in the day. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/merkel-formally-elected-german-chancellor-2nd-term.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223143-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/merkel-formally-elected-german-chancellor-2nd-term.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/merkel-formally-elected-german-chancellor-2nd-term.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:56:18 EDT A European Union counter-piracy force arrested seven suspected pirates after a French fishing boat was attacked in the Indian Ocean, it said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/eu-force-arrests-seven-suspected-pirates.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223149-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/eu-force-arrests-seven-suspected-pirates.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/eu-force-arrests-seven-suspected-pirates.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:54:38 EDT Radovan Karadzic led a genocidal campaign to make Bosnian Muslims "disappear from the face of the earth" and carve out a mono-ethnic state for Bosnian Serbs, war crimes prosecutors told a U.N. tribunal on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/prosecution-opens-case-against-karadzic-absent-again.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223126-prosecution-opens-case-against-karadzic-absent-again.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/prosecution-opens-case-against-karadzic-absent-again.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/prosecution-opens-case-against-karadzic-absent-again.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:06:28 EDT The United States and European Union pledged on Tuesday to work to reduce regulatory barriers that impede trade across the Atlantic, but said a free-trade pact was not in the cards right now. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/ueu-pledge-work-on-regulatory-trade-barriers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/ueu-pledge-work-on-regulatory-trade-barriers.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:52:54 EDT A U.N. panel of experts has demanded that Burkina Faso investigate weapons transfers to the rebel-controlled northern part of the neighboring West African state of Ivory Coast. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/uwants-probe-arms-sent-ivory-coast-rebels.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/uwants-probe-arms-sent-ivory-coast-rebels.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:26:47 EDT The European Union agreed on Tuesday to impose an arms embargo on Guinea over the killing of anti-government protesters and said it would restrict the travel and freeze the assets of individuals involved. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/eu-agrees-sanctions-on-guinea-over-crackdown.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/223054-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/eu-agrees-sanctions-on-guinea-over-crackdown.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091027/eu-agrees-sanctions-on-guinea-over-crackdown.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:19:59 EDT