archive 27·02·2009

corporate

• Sony shake up

  Sony’s Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Stringer has come out on top in a management power… 27/02/09 20:34 CET

• Lloyds suffers from HBOS losses

  The red ink continues to flow out of British banks. The part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group has… 27/02/09 20:34 CET

economy

• Help for pressured European economies

  The heads of three global development banks have pledged to lend up to 25 billion euros in… 27/02/09 20:34 CET

• US economy slumps 6.2 percent in Q4

  The US economy continues to stumble. New figures show that in the final three months of last year… 27/02/09 20:34 CET

europa

• Calm before EU economic emergency summit

  The European Union will hold an emergency economic summit this Sunday, but no major new initiatives… 27/02/09 20:24 CET

• French-Italian ok to drill through Alps

  France and Italy have finally achieved a political consensus to proceed with work on a future rail… 27/02/09 20:24 CET

europeans

• Where women lead, productivity improves

  Gender equality in Europe is still a distant goal, but the pay-off is undeniable, in economic terms… 27/02/09 08:14 CET

le mag

• Eurovision songbirds

  The Israeli entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is a singing duo consisting of Noa – who… 27/02/09 17:22 CET

• Escapist fashion for next winter

  Baz Lurhmann’s Moulin Rouge is said to have inspired Valeria Marini’s new autumn/winter women’s… 27/02/09 17:22 CET

markets

• Friday 27 February

  European shares finished the day down 2.22 percent recording another big monthly loss. Banks… 27/02/09 20:34 CET

parlamento

• An orientation tool for EU voters

  How would you vote, who with and for what political programme? To build up critical mass for the… 27/02/09 21:25 CET

sawa

• Women’s rights in Jordan

  With International Women’s Day just around the corner, euronews travelled to the Hashemite Kingdom… 27/02/09 11:24 CET

world news

• Bishop says sorry but Vatican wants more

  The Vatican says Bishop Richard Williamson’s words of regret for his denial of the extent of the… 27/02/09 20:17 CET

• Opel’s economy drive: plans to relax ties with GM

  Management at the German car-maker Opel are looking to break away from General Motors, ending 80… 27/02/09 20:12 CET

• EU offers nearly half a billion euros to rebuild Gaza

  The EU is to give 436 million euros for the reconstruction of Gaza. The aid package was announced… 27/02/09 20:10 CET

• Obama spells out Iraqi pullout timetable

  A pullout of US combat troops serving in Iraq by the end of August next year. That is the date… 27/02/09 19:38 CET

• US withdrawal from Iraq gathers pace

  Experts say the pullout of US combat troops from Iraq will be quicker than some American commanders… 27/02/09 19:38 CET

• Livni rejects unity government with Kadima

  Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has ruled out taking her centrist Kadima party into a… 27/02/09 14:26 CET

• Firefighters put SE Australia on red alert again

  Firefighters in Australia have stepped up their efforts to contain a new outbreak of bush fires… 27/02/09 13:04 CET

• Opel bosses consider GM modified plants

  Management at the German car-maker Opel are considering a restructuring plan which, it is feared… 27/02/09 13:04 CET

• Solana: EU will play its part in Gaza reconstruction

  The EU’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has been viewing for himelf the destruction in Gaza… 27/02/09 13:04 CET

• August 2010 reportedly set as US’s Iraq exit date

  It is reported President Barack Obama will today announce August next year as the date by which… 27/02/09 11:59 CET

• Basque Nationalists’ hold on power under threat

  Election campaigning in Spain’s turbulent Basque country is reaching a climax, for a ballot that… 27/02/09 10:36 CET

• Palestinians look for unity after the assault on Gaza

  June 14th 2007, gunshots pepper the air marked the demise of Fatah in the Gaza Strip, and a… 27/02/09 08:10 CET

• Iceland removes central bank boss

  The man seen as both the architect of Iceland’s recent economic boom and a key figure in its… 27/02/09 08:03 CET

• Barack’s budget faces Republican backlash

  US President Barack Obama has unveiled a 2.7 trillion euro budget, his first since taking office… 27/02/09 07:53 CET

• Ex-Serb president acquitted of Kosovo war crimes

  The United Nations’ war crimes tribunal has delivered its first verdict on the conflict in Kosovo… 27/02/09 07:42 CET

• Turkish survivors go home as accident probe starts

  Some of the survivors of the Turkish Airlines flight which crashed in Amsterdam have returned to… 27/02/09 07:33 CET

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