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Germany's Deutsche Boerse says the European Commission is to block its planned merger with stock market operator NYSE Euronext.

The European Commission has proposed a new set of data protection rules that would give EU citizens a much greater say over how their personal data is collected and stored—including the right to have it deleted entirely.

The response from businesses has been mixed.

A day after accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s president asked a former member of the European Commission to form a new government.

Banks in Europe should temporarily raise their capital reserves to better withstand market turmoil over the continent's debt, the president of the European Commission said Wednesday as he presented a broad new crisis plan.

(EUREKA) As the world population increases at a tremendous pace the primary water global supplies will need to grow by 41 percent until 2025, points out a recent report issued by the European Commission.

Wastewater reuse and recycling ought to play a major part in granting everybody an equal access to water and the EUREKA DANA project, developing a new product in the field, will be part of the solution.

The European Commission and the top economy official in the 16 nations that use the euro backed Greece's extra budget cuts on Wednesday, saying they would help the financial stability of Europe's currency union.

The European Commission says that economic sentiment in the 16 countries that use the euro fell during February, a further sign that the recovery from recession has lost its momentum.

Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission into its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising following allegations that it demotes competing websites to the lower echelons of customers' search results.

The European Commission is looking into complaints from three online companies that Google Inc's search functions penalized their businesses, The Daily Telegraph reported in its Wednesday edition.

The European Union's new economic watchdog plans to use "moral pressure" instead of regulatory authority to crack down on countries posing major risks to Europe's economy, the European Commission said Wednesday.