All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2021 // Plans by Britain and the European Union to set up a new financial cooperation forum by the end of March have made some progress but this will not automatically lead to market access, senior officials said on...
Feb 22 2021 // Around 1,000 European Union finance firms are expected to open their first offices in the UK after losing their passporting rights because of Brexit.Roughly two-thirds of the 1,500 money managers, payment firms and...
Feb 22 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s defeat in a UK legal battle over the way it treats its drivers is set to trigger a wave of complaints from workers across the region.Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that Uber must...
Feb 17 2021 // Uber on Monday called on EU regulators to recognize the value of independent contracts in job creation as they consider new rules to protect gig economy workers.The company has been criticized for classifying its drivers...
Feb 12 2021 // European Union efforts to resolve a patent dispute between tech companies and carmakers have hit a roadblock after experts enlisted for advice failed to agree on the level of royalties or who should pay them.Tech firm...
Feb 11 2021 // Amsterdam has displaced London as Europe’s biggest share trading center after Britain left the European Union’s single market, and picked up a chunk of UK derivatives business along the way, according to data...
Feb 10 2021 // The Bank of England told insurers on Wednesday not to expect any big reduction in capital requirements after Brexit, adding that more capital could be “part of the answer” to meeting a 1.7 billion pound bill...
Feb 5 2021 // LONDON – Around 40% of British companies that import and export said the shift to a new trading arrangement with the European Union had made trade more cumbersome last month, a survey showed on Thursday.The report from...
Feb 1 2021 // NEW DELHI – The Indian government on Monday said it plans to raise limits on how much foreign companies can invest in the country’s insurance industry, a move that could attract inflows from U.S. and European...
Feb 1 2021 // Truckloads of British pig meat waiting to be shipped to Germany and stuffed into bratwursts perished at UK ports this month while stuck in line for customs clearance.It’s a story that barely made a ripple in the UK,...
Jan 27 2021 // European regulators need to overhaul their capital rules to free up insurers to invest more in climate-friendly infrastructure projects, the chief executive of German insurer Allianz said on Wednesday.“Today, the...
Jan 26 2021 // European scientists who feed critical climate data to industry and researchers said that their next great breakthrough in weather forecasting will be powered by artificial intelligence.The European Centre for Medium-Range...
Jan 19 2021 // Spain began the new year battling Storm Filomena, a once-in-a-generation weather event that blanketed Madrid in snow and paralyzed the economy. Health workers were stranded, supermarkets shut, and the army was called in....
Jan 14 2021 // Global broking business, Brokerslink, starts 2021 with the continued the expansion of its global network and the addition of independent broker JDB in North Macedonia.Trading since 2009, JDB is a growing broker with a...
Jan 13 2021 // The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump administration...
Jan 12 2021 // While the mile-long lines of trucks have dissipated at ports, UK businesses are waking up to less visible forms of friction at the border with the European Union that may cause more enduring damage.From health certificates...
Jan 8 2021 // Britain should not submit to the European Union’s financial services rules just to get better access to the bloc’s market after Brexit, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Wednesday.European daily...
Jan 8 2021 // European companies are expected to hunt for assets in China, mainly in insurance, healthcare and automobile sectors, after the world’s second-largest economy and the European Union agreed to an investment deal last...
Dec 30 2020 // The UK’s parting of the ways from the European Union means that an obscure 7-year-old watchdog is about to gain massive new powers over corporate mergers.Itself the product of a merger of two failing regulators, the...
Dec 30 2020 // LONDON (AP) – So far, the large majority of British and EU citizens have not felt the realities of Brexit. Though the UK left the European Union on Jan. 31, it follows the bloc’s rules until the end of this year as...