Topic - European Union

• Microsoft lodges EU complaint against Motorola

  Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator against Google's Motorola Mobility, saying the company's aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules.

• Microsoft hits Motorola, Google with EU complaint

  Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be owner Google, saying Motorola's aggressive enforcement of patent rights against rivals breaks competition rules.

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  Leaders meet in U.K. over fragile Somalia's future

  Somalia's fragile leadership, its neighbors and international allies are meeting in London in the hope of speeding the troubled east African nation's progress toward a stable government and containing the threat from Islamic militants who some fear could export terrorism to Europe and the United States.

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  GHEI: The government drag on growth

  Europe's leaders on Tuesday decided to give another very expensive band-aid to Greece. The latest bailout will cost $170 billion and enable Greeks to borrow from one set of creditors to pay off another, while other private creditors agree to take a haircut.

• EU suspends copyright treaty ratification

  The European Commission, facing opposition in city streets, on the Internet and in the halls of parliament, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement, and instead will refer it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights.

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  Bailout halts Greek financial woes — for now

  Though a second, $172 billion bailout and a deep debt write-off for financially stricken Greece will ward off a financial disaster in Europe, economists only give the deal a slim chance of putting the country on the path to economic recovery - and steadying its place in Europe's currency union.

• Briefly: Middle East

  Iran has laid out conditions for future oil exports to other European countries after halting sales to Britain and France this week, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

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  KALLIANIOTIS: Greece should leave the eurozone

  I grew up in a different Greece, where saving, not debt, was a virtue. Everyone I knew had a savings account, and we all felt it was wrong to borrow money.

• Oil jumps to 9-month high after Iran cuts supply

  Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program.

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  Greece secures bailout to avoid debt default

  The countries that use the euro pulled Greece back from an imminent and potentially catastrophic default on Tuesday, when they finally stitched together a 130-billion-euro ($170 billion) rescue they hope also will provide a lifeline to their common currency.

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  Iran says it may cut oil to more European countries

  Tehran is considering extending an oil embargo on France and Britain to other European countries, a semiofficial Iranian news agency reported Monday.

• World Scene

  The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians said Monday that Turkey's new constitution should grant equal rights to minorities in the country and safeguard religious freedoms.

• Economy Briefs

  Iran has halted oil shipments to Britain and France, the Oil Ministry said Sunday, in an apparent pre-emptive blow against the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on Iran's crucial fuel exports.

• SANDERS: The glory that was Greece...

  There is a terrible poignancy to the current Greek crisis.

• Iran: Oil exports cut to Britain, France

  Iran has halted oil shipments to Britain and France, the Oil Ministry said Sunday, in an apparent pre-emptive blow against the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on Iran's crucial fuel exports.

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