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European Union

  • Nokia appoints Rolf Werner as new Europe chief

    TELECOMS

    Nokia has appointed Rolf Werner as the firm’s new Senior Vice President for Europe, the company announced today. Werner joins the Finnish telecoms firm from Cognizant, where he was CEO for Cognizant Germany, overseeing the German, Austrian and Swiss markets. He has also held senior positions at Fujitsu, Global Logic, and T-Systems. Nokia said Werner [...]

  • ExxonMobil sues EU over plans for bloc-wide windfall tax

    Energy

    ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit against the EU in a bid to overturn the trading bloc’s plans to impose a windfall tax on energy companies. The US oil major is seeking to challenge the EU’s authority to impose a 33 per cent levy on energy companies’ profits during the fiscal year 2022.   Two of [...]

  • EU lawmaker arrested in Qatar corruption probe

    Corruption

    A top-ranking member of the European Parliament has been suspended from her job after being arrested by Belgian police in a Qatar World Cup corruption probe.   Greek MEP Eva Kaili was suspended from her job as one of the EU parliament’s fourteen vice-presidents after being detained in the investigation into potential bribes paid by [...]

  • EU court adviser throws spanner in the works for telcos consolidation

    October 20, 2022

    A top EU lawyer has undermined hopes of consolidation in the telcos sector after it backed a 2016 ruling that blocked a major £10.3bn merger. It comes after Advocate-General for the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) Juliane Kokott said this morning that a previous ruling involving Telefónica’s O2 and CK Hutchison’s Three, which went against [...]

  • Legal sector hits back at EU calls for regulation of third-party litigation funders

    September 14, 2022

    Lawyers and litigation funders have hit back at EU plans to regulate the third-party litigation financing industry in claiming new rules could limit access to justice.   The clashes come after the EU parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of adopting a report by German MEP Axel Voss calling for new regulation of Europe’s [...]

  • Germany to launch new enforcement agency to strengthen fight against white-collar crime

    August 25, 2022

    Germany has set out plans to start a new country-wide financial crime authority with a view to strengthening the country’s responses to sanctions breaches and white-collar crime. The plans will see Germany’s finance ministry combine the country’s more than 300 financial crime agencies into a new federal authority, in line with plans to “curb financial [...]

  • French asset manager Amundi takes hit from turbulent European markets

    July 29, 2022

    French asset manager Amundi today said the value of the assets it manages has dropped by 4.75 per cent compared to three months ago, due to “unfavourable” market conditions. The Paris headquartered firm said net incomes for the first half of the year were 16 per cent lower than a year ago, as it said [...]

  • Exclusive: UK becomes Europe’s leading jurisdiction for class-action lawsuits

    July 12, 2022

    The introduction of “opt-out” claims has seen the UK become the leading jurisdiction for European class action lawsuits, according to new figures from law firm CMS, which show that more than half (54 per cent) of all class action lawsuits filed in Europe over the past five years were filed in the UK. The UK [...]

  • EU’s stamp of approval for digital laws risks putting the UK behind

    July 7, 2022

    The European Parliament gave the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) the final green light this week, setting out key obligations on Big Tech.

  • Big Tech agrees to a big EU fake news crack down

    June 16, 2022

    Meta, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have agreed to have a stronger approach to disinformation as the EU pushes forward with a fresh code of practice.

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