Waste: A universal phone charger will be available on all new handsets within months after the EC this week released technical specs for a standard design. The days of frantically searching for the correct mobile phone charger are finally set to end with the release of a universal charger compatible with almost all new handsets. The European Commission this week released technical specifications for... 

The European Commission has come under fire for producing more than three million copies of an EU diary for secondary schools which contains no reference to Christmas but includes Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim festivities. More than 330,000 copies of the diaries, accompanied by 51 pages of glossy information about the EU, have been delivered to British schools as a “sought after” Christmas... 

Workers in Paris protest against the French government’s planned pension reform BUREAUCRATS in Brussels want to raise the retirement age for millions of British workers on a regular rolling basis to avoid another financial crisis. The European Commission wants people to work longer hours and retire later and wants to fix pension entitlements to an EU-wide formula. It suggests that on average... 

The European Union’s competition watchdog has appoved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google. A lack of funding has meant the project – which is Latin for “I seek” – is still in the concept stage, but will now be able to get up and running thanks to support from France, which has championed...