The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections (SO) to Microsoft for failing to comply with certain obligations that Microsoft took under the March 2004 Commission decision (see IP/04/382).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says integrating Ukraine is not on the European Union's agenda for the moment.

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands started a four-day state visit to Turkey on Tuesday, her first visit to the predominantly Muslim but secular country that wants to join the European Union.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, currently on a three-day visit to Brussels, has said he has recognized the EU's growing aversion to enlargement.

European restrictions on banana imports will face a new challenge at the World Trade Organization next month when Ecuador asks the group to restart a decade-old dispute over what Latin American countries and the United States have previously argued amounts to unfair trade discrimination, officials said Monday.

The European Commission today brushed off comments by Gazprom Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Medvedev that its plans to break up the EU's energy monopolies are "absurd."

The European Commission has fined the Otis, KONE, Schindler and ThyssenKrupp groups €992 million for operating cartels for the installation and maintenance of lifts and escalators in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, in clear violation of EC Treaty rules that outlaw restrictive business practices (Article 81).

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Cyprus applied Tuesday to join Europe's common currency, the euro, the European Commission confirmed.

Foreign ministers of the 27 European Union member countries meeting in Brussels have approved plans for implementing UN sanctions against Iran.

Speaking at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy the Russian President declared that only the UN, and not the EU or NATO, can sanction the legitimate use of force.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has canceled a visit to Europe, where he was supposed to hold talks on the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program.