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...electricity monopolies, the E.U. is pushing to open energy markets. By next year, almost all households and businesses will have the freedom to shop around for a power supplier. "An open and competitive single E.U. market is crucial" if businesses are to compete and consumers thrive, Brussels' Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes declared last month. Now if only everyone could agree on how to get there. There is no shortage of European energy firms who want to become big enough to offer services across the Continent. Indeed, Europe's utilities are on a shopping spree. According to Dealogic, which tracks transactions...
...more a must than a maybe for everyone. "We can't deal with globalization if we've got 25 mini energy markets," European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said last week. "Even the largest member states are too small when we talk about globalization and energy." For the Commissioners, capital cities and consumers helping to map the route toward a more open market, that perspective ought to keep minds occupied for some time to come...
An Italian commission last week confirmed old theories that the Soviet Union was behind the assassination attempt on POPE JOHN PAUL II.
A student petition calling for divestment from firms operating in Sudan has re-emerged with a new focus on the Beijing-based oil company Sinopec and has garnered roughly 200 signatures over the past week, according to organizers. The original petition last year urged Harvard to sell its stake in...
Questions surrounding the Detainee Treatment Act will also come before the Supreme Court on March 28, when lawyers for Salim Ahmad Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's alleged driver, challenge government attempts to put him on trial before a military commission. "The issue in this court case is critically important because...