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EU approves common patent rules
The European Union approved a new common patent system on Tuesday designed to cut red tape and streamline patent procedures across ...
EU talks on banking union to expose divisions
European finance ministers inched toward strengthening their banking sectors and the management of their economies at a meeting in Brussels on ...
Report wants EU banks to ring-fence risky business
Europe's fragile banking system should be protected by building a firewall between a lender's retail operations and its more risky trading activities ...
Europe at loggerheads over banking reform
Europe faces weeks of tough negotiations to agree on a new region-wide banking supervisor after divisions emerged over the new body's powers at a ...
Official: ECB should oversee only biggest banks
A top European Central Bank officials says the ECB should be responsible for supervising the biggest financial institutions under plans to make it ...
German minister: bank supervisor will take time
Germany's finance minister hit hopes that Europe's stressed banks could soon tap the region's rescue funds directly when he said Monday that a new ...
Germany: EU supervisor should focus on big banks
Germany's finance minister wants the new European banking supervisor to limit its focus on major banks whose stability is vital to Europe's financial ...
EU proposes criminalizing rate-rigging
The European Union proposed Wednesday to make manipulating key global interest rates a criminal offence. European Commission vice president Viviane ...