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Brussels punished Microsoft for failing to give at least 15m consumers a choice of web browser – a violation of a voluntary antitrust pact

Decision ignores warnings from EU officials, aggravating relations with Brussels and jeopardising talks over free trade agreements with Ukraine

France’s former president keeps up guessing game of a return to politics as popular support for the former centre-right UMP politician appears to grow

Resolving the transatlantic dispute over data protection rules could ease the way towards a new EU-US trade agreement over the next two years

Central banks have played an unintended role in producing the starkly contrasting performances of financial markets and global economies

A Bolshoi Ballet soloist and two other men have confessed to an acid attack on the company's artistic director, Moscow police say.

For Diageo’s Brussels lobbyist and a veteran of the ‘vodka wars’, an important priority this year is to forge closer ties with Berlin

US cardinals in Rome cancel a popular daily press briefing as the conclave approaches after stories about the confidential process appear in the media.

Lawmakers forced to debate referendum on any further transfers of power after a citizens’ petition demanding plebiscite quickly garners 40,000 names

Amnesty, which released almost 7,000 prisoners and halted corruption trials, stains reputation of a man who was giant of Czech post-communist politics

Volvo is to offer a product that can scan the road for cyclists and apply the brakes if it thinks a collision is imminent.

Bersani calls on Grillo’s movement to support his platform in parliament but does not directly offer to share power in a government

The UK is to provide armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria to help save lives, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.

Travel group Thomas Cook announces it will cut 2,500 jobs in the UK and close some stores as it attempts to revive its profitability.

The EU's competition regulator fines Microsoft 561 million euros ($731m; £484m) after it failed to keep a promise that it would promote a choice of rival web browsers.

Latvia's finance minister has formally requested that his country joins the eurozone.

Pavel Dmitrichenko has admitted on TV to organising attack on director Sergei Filin as he and two others are detained over the crime

Bolshoi Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko and two accomplices have confessed to an acid attack on the company's artistic director, police say.

Why Spain is inviting Jews back after 500 years

The Dane with the keys to your data

Chancellor George Osborne stood isolated after European Union finance ministers vowed to press on with proposals to curb bankers' bonuses.

The 10-year-old daughter of Bulgarian gangland boss Evelin Banev has been abducted outside her house in the capital, Sofia.

Raid on apartment connected to prominent Bolshoi dancer follows arrest of first suspect in the case of gruesome acid attack on director Sergei Filin

Budapest plans to vote next week on amendments to the new constitution, including parts European institutions had successfully challenged

The EU parliament’s capping of bank bonuses shows it has matured as a political force, but its democratic legitimacy is still queried. By Joshua Chaffin

The European fine represents an unprecedented penalty against a company for failing to stick to a voluntary pact

Ikea withdraws a type of almond cake from its restaurants after two samples were found to be contaminated by coliform bacteria, though none went on sale.

Russia prepares new charges against fund manager Bill Browder, whose lawyer died in a Russian jail in a high-profile case.

The large number of lobbyists at work in the European parliament testifies to its increased power but also prompts concerns, writes Joshua Chaffin

Fund manager replies that arrangements he made to buy Gazprom shares and to pay taxes on them were commonplace and entirely legal