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  • ** FILE ** The Google logo is displayed in the company's New York office in December 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

    Google agrees to change search display in Europe

    Google has agreed to change how it displays search results in Europe — including a better labeling of its promoted content and displaying links to competitors — to appease concerns it might be abusing its dominant market position, the European Union's antitrust body said Thursday.

  • EU call for tighter fiscal unity likely to sharpen divisions

    Four top European Union officials on Thursday set out a blueprint for a closer financial union in a move that will clash with some member states' cherished national interests.

  • EU health chief resigns in corruption scandal

    The European Union's health commissioner resigned Tuesday over corruption allegations involving tobacco laws but has denied any wrongdoing and has vowed to clear his name.

  • EU parliament backs clampdown on roaming fees

    The European Parliament on Thursday approved a clampdown on mobile network operators to protect consumers from paying excessive prices for using their phones and tablet computers abroad.

  • French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande (center) arrives April 22, 2012, at Brive Airport in Brive, France, after the first round of the presidential election. (Associated Press)

    Fringes cast shadow over French presidential election

    Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative Nicolas Sarkozy go head-to-head in France's presidential runoff, but a third figure looms large in the campaign: the leader of the nation's far-right National Front.

  • EU considers 30 percent compensation to farmers

    European Union agriculture ministers are assessing whether farmers will be able to recoup from EU coffers up to 30 percent of the cost of vegetables that cannot be sold because of the German E.coli contamination crisis.

  • FILE - In this July 11, 2010 file photo, Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas holds up the trophy after winning the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa. A European Union high court has ruled that countries can keep all World Cup and European Championship games on free-to-air television, arguing against FIFA and UEFA which sought the right to sell most matches to pay television. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

    FIFA, UEFA lose legal challenge over TV coverage

    Chalk up another giant victory for Britain's regular folks. The glorious months of World Cup or European Championship soccer, when dozens of games are followed with rabid enthusiasm across the continent, will stay on free TV, not cable.

  • Germany detects illegal dioxin levels in poultry

    German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in chicken _ the first such confirmation of tainted meat since the discovery that German farm animals had eaten contaminated feed, possibly for months.

  • Germany detects illegal dioxin level in poultry

    German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in chicken _ the first such confirmation of tainted meat since the discovery that German farm animals had eaten contaminated feed, possibly for months.

  • FILE - In this Tuesday, March 23, 2010 file photo, the Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Brussels. On Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 the European Commission said it is launching a formal investigation into whether Google has abused its dominant market position in online searches.The EU's competition watchdog says Tuesday that the probe follows complaints from other online search providers that Google put them at a disadvantage in both its paid and unpaid search results. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

    EU launches antitrust probe into Google searches

    European Union regulators will investigate whether Google Inc. has abused its dominant position in the online search market _ the first major probe into the online giant's business practices.

  • Demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized the march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget-slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

    Anti-austerity protests sweep Europe

    European unions orchestrated a crescendo of anti-austerity protests across the Continent on Wednesday, sending workers ranging from Greek doctors to Spanish bus drivers to Lithuanian engineers out to vent over job cuts, higher taxes, soaring unemployment and smaller pensions.

  • The sun is reflected on the facade of the European Central Bank Tower, seen through the euro symbol, in Frankfurt, Germany, in August 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)

    Banks, markets await European stress test results

    Markets were on alert Friday, waiting for European regulators to finally publish their investigation into the financial health of Europe's banking sector.

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