Reuters - European Union deadlock over the terms for opening historic entry talks with Turkey deepened on Monday with Austria insisting Ankara should be offered a status short of full membership.

AFP - European stock markets had mixed fortunes as investors cashed in recent gains, and after BP warned that recent US hurricanes had hit output and profits.

AP - The European Central Bank meets Thursday to decide whether it should adjust interest rates for the euro zone, with analysts predicting that it will take no action despite a gloomy economic outlook.

AP - The European Central Bank meets Thursday to decide whether it should adjust interest rates for the euro zone, with analysts predicting that they will take no action despite a gloomy economic outlook.

AFP - European stock markets fell in early trading, but losses were less steep than those in recent days caused by concerns about a weaker US economic outlook.

AFP - European stock markets rebounded slightly on a firm tone on Wall Street before the weekend, while London received a lift also from rallying mining stocks.

FT.com - A lower close on Wall Street looked likely to hit European stocks on Tuesday, but losses were expected to be capped, with no new oil price shocks and winning results from Roche's Genentech unit.

Canadian Press - LONDON (AP) - Britain's economic growth will be slower than earlier forecast this year, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development warned Wednesday.

FT.com - European equities were expected to open sharply lower on Thursday after another poor showing on the tech-laden US Nasdaq index and wider falls which left Wall Street stocks near 5-month lows.

Canadian Press - DENVER, Colo. (AP) - Liberty Global Inc., which owns cable television operations in more than a dozen European markets, said Friday it has agreed to acquire Cablecom Holdings AG, Switzerland's largest broadband cable operator, for about $2.19 billion US in cash.

AP - Germany's finance minister-designate rejected new tax cuts in an interview published Sunday and renewed his call for the country to comply with European Union budget deficit rules in 2007.

AFP - European Union Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy will seek to eliminate discriminatory treatment of company shareholders by introducing the principle of "one-share, one-vote" across the Union, the Financial Times daily reported.

AP - High oil prices pushed inflation in the 12 countries that use the euro up to 2.6 percent in September — higher than expected — as pressure slowly grows on the European Central Bank to adjust interest rates in the coming months.

AP - Germany's leading economists cut their 2006 growth forecast for the country, predicting Thursday that Europe's biggest economy would expand by only 1.2 percent amid high oil prices.

AP - Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel campaigned on pledges to get Germany's economy moving. To deliver, she may have to battle not just ideological foes, but also supposed allies such as incoming Economy Minister Edmund Stoiber.

AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said a proposed fund to cushion the impact of painful economic restructuring in Europe would protect employees and help them to find new jobs.

AFP - Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged that he faces a "big challenge" in trying to secure a deal on the way the European Union spends its money.

AFP - European stock markets closed lower on Tuesday following a weak opening on Wall Street as disappointing results from some of the biggest companies in Britain and France also dampened sentiment, dealers said.

AFP - In a speech interrupted by occasions jeers but also by some applause, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told European deputies that he would seek a deal on the European Union's long-term budget in December, but first wanted go get the EU moving "in the right direction economically."

AFP - France's Economy ministry fixed the share price range for individual investors in the planned part-privatisation of electricity utility EDF at 28.50-33.10 euros (34.60-40.19 dollars), with 85 percent remaining in state hands.

AFP - European Union leaders have reached broad agreement on how to steer the bloc out of its economic and political malaise, but real tensions linger over EU spending plans, including billions of euros in farm subsidies at stake in global trade talks.

AP - Telefonica SA, the Spanish telecommunications powerhouse that has been expanding in Latin America and Eastern Europe, has agreed to buy mobile phone company O2 PLC in a $31.4 billion deal that will help expand in the United Kingdom and German markets.