Financial Times May 13, 2009 Peer Steinbrück, Germany’s finance minister, on Wednesday attacked proposals to conduct stress tests on individual European banks and labelled the financing checks of US institutions “worthless”. more
BBC News May 13, 2009 Computer chipmaker Intel has been fined a record 1.06bn euros ($1.45bn; £948m) by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. more
AFP May 12, 2009 NATO announced Tuesday that it had appointed US Admiral James Stavridis as its supreme military commander, following a request from the United States. more
Financial Times May 11, 2009 The US is to take a more interventionist approach to competition issues, reversing the stance of George W. Bush’s administration and moving closer to the way that European regulators operate. more
Reuters UK May 10, 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said NATO military exercises in Georgia did not help efforts to rebuild Moscow’s relations with the United States in comments published on Sunday. more