After a week of violent clashes between dockworkers and police the European Parliament voted on Wednesday to throw out plans to liberalise port services. The vote was an overwhelming 542 against, 120 in favour and 25 abstentions. Dockers objected to plans to liberalise cargo handling and piloting services, and allow in seamen to carry out

Expectations that the European Central Bank will raise interest rates in March were raised on Wednesday with the publication of robust industrial production figures by the EU’s statistical services Eurostat. Industrial production in the eurozone rose by 1.3% month on month in November on a seasonally adjusted basis, having fallen in the previous two months.

A 19-year-old Spanish hacker broke into a U.S. Navy database, jeopardizing the security of a nuclear submarine maintenance facility in California. The hacker was arrested on January 11 after the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service informed Spain about a hacking attack against the Point Loma naval base from a computer located in the southern Spanish