A number of employees from the Norwegian firm Statoil were taken hostage by an Islamist group following an attack on a gas plant close to the Libyan border. The exact number and nationality of people kidnapped was unclear. Oslo has yet to confirm a rep…

The government has announced its intention to impose a 35 per cent tax on Hungarian owned bank accounts in other countries. The accounts, which are estimated to contain between 1trn and 2trn forints (€ 3.3bn to €6.6bn), are mainly held in Switzerla…

Former Austrian interior minister and MEP Ernst Strasser’s jailing for four years for corruption should be “proclaimed the length and breadth of the European Union” as a deterrent against graft, trumpeted the European Voice. The politician was ca…

“Tightening control” over the rating agencies is the goal of the third wave of measures approved by the European Parliament, notes La Vanguardia, following a report led by MEP Leonardo Domenici, who feels the management of these agencies is marked …

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