By William Schomberg BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (Reuters) – The European Union’s trade chief said on Friday he was delaying politically sensitive reforms of the bloc’s anti-dumping rules because EU governments were too divided on the issue. “I am not prepared to bring them forward unless and until greater consensus exists amongst the member states about
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ATHENS, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Greek dockers walked off the job for the second time this week on Friday, stopping cargo ships from unloading and forcing some to dock at other European ports. Port workers are opposed to government plans to sell stakes in the country’s two major ports to strategic investors to raise funds
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PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware analysis and detection laboratory, has detected the appearance of Trojans that include rootkits (MBRtool.A, MBRtool.B, MBRtool.C, etc.) designed to replace the master boot record (MBR), -the first or zero sector of the hard disk- for one of its own. This is something of a revolution in the use of rootkits, making
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Various celebrations will take place on Friday, January 17, to mark the adoption of the euro in Cyprus. At 5.30 p.m. there will be a special event “Welcoming Cyprus to the euro areaâ€, at the Central Bank auditorium in Nicosia where Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European Central Bank, will present the Governor of
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A telephone company in the U.S. cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to Reuters. The audit by the Justice Department’s inspector general faulted the FBI for poor handling of money used in undercover investigations, which it said made the agency vulnerable to theft and
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A large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006. The findings, published Wednesday on the website of the New England Journal of Medicine, are based on information collected during a wider survey of family health in
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The outlook for most of the rated Hungarian banks is stable, Moody’s Investors Service said in its new Banking System Outlook for Hungary. Only Central-European International Bank Zrt. is under review, due to its merger with Inter Europa Bank Zrt. The bank financial strength ratings (BFSR) of Hungarian banks are underpinned by sound financial fundamentals,
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Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, American Andy Roddick, former world number one Marat Safin and Chilean Fernando Gonzalez won on the opening day of Melbourne’s Kooyong Classic in a warm-up event for next week’s Australian Open. Roddick produced his customary fast start to the year, crushing Ivan Ljubicic in this eight-man exhibition event. The world number
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Thursday joined U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co Inc as a senior advisor, according to a Reuters report from New York. JPMorgan, the third-largest U.S. bank, said Blair will give JPMorgan Chase’s CEO and senior management team advice on global politics on a part-time basis, and participate in
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Cyprus’ trade deficit expanded to 2.503,6 million Cyprus pound in January-October 2007, compared to 2.149,9 million in January-October 2006. According to the latest data, released here today by the Statistical Service of Cyprus (CyStat), total imports/arrivals (covering total imports from third countries and arrivals from other EU member states) in January-October 2007 amounted to 3.040,4
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