Tag Archives : European Union

As the metropolitans of major countries across the globe and especially in the U.S experience an unprecedented surge in vehicular traffic, efforts are ongoing by various agencies to find alternative means of transportation to ease the pressure off the cities. Now, the European Union (EU) has stated that the collective European hive has set aside some [...]

  The software maker Microsoft is more ethical company than Google, Facebook and Apple, says a survey. Removal of the Ethisphere Institute on the 110 most ethical companies in the world, including the company led by Steve Ballmer among those attending that aspect, leaving out the search giant, the most popular social network in the world and the [...]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Wednesday that aims to bring together representatives of the G20 to discuss the issue of intellectual property on the web. Sarkozy hopes the meeting will occur before the annual meeting of the G20, scheduled for November in Cannes, France. According to the French President, countries need to “move [...]

One of the most ambitious projects financed by the European Union (EU), SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), that aims at making vehicle platooning or tailgating as streamlined as possible with automated cars, has now finally come out of the simulators and has conducted its first ever successful demonstration of this cutting edge technology [...]

Future generations in France may have to travel to the United Kingdom or to other European countries if they want to see what an eel is. While other European countries have been trying to figure out a way to let eel populations recover, France has refused to accept a complete ban on the export of glass eels. Glass eels are smooth, slimy and translucent. [...]

Europe relieved sighs today after most of the continent‘s banks passed the stress tests, whose results were released yesterday. However, analysts warn that the tests may not have been tough enough to restore confidence in the European financial sector. The aggregate results of the tests show a high degree of resilience in the banking sector of [...]

Google has been locking horns with the European Union for some time now over trademark issues. And this fight doesn’t seem to be getting over. In March, LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton slapped a suit against Google, which Google had won. LVMH claimed that Google was infringing on its trademark and promoting the online sale of counterfeit products [...]

Apparently after introducing the much warranted ‘Browser Ballot’ screen in Europe, Microsoft Corporation it seems isn’t out of the woods yet. As per reports, Microsoft is currently scrambling to fix an error in the Browser Ballot screen showed in computers across Poland. Due to this error, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is being shown on top [...]

Owners of famous trademarks have convinced the European Commission to allow sites to block sales without physical store not to distribute their products, claiming a need to protect their image. But eBay and consumer groups say the new rule may hurt online trade at the time that the Commission intends to promote this market. The provision is part of [...]

After the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), which is a reference to those emerging economies which will have a global influence even bigger in the next decades, it’s time for a new acronym, much more “offensive”. PIGS is a new acronym that has emerged to describe the delicate situation that the European Union is going through. (PIGS = Portugal, [...]