The EU's trade chief will recommend placing punitive import duties on billions of euros of solar panels from China, people close to the matter say, putting up a barrier to protect European producers but risking upsetting Beijing.

The European Union's antitrust authority opened an in-depth investigation into whether the French government is unfairly helping auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroën .

The European Commission said on Thursday it was reopening an investigation into a tax break granted to French power utility EDF, after the highest EU court overturned a Commission finding that the measure was illegal state aid.

The European Commission plans to fund 20 new international brain research projects with €150 million, in the context of the 'European Month of the Brain'.

A key committee of EU experts was meeting on Monday to mull a two-year ban on pesticides blamed for a sharp and worrying decline in bee populations.

The European Commission has unveiled plans to improve the rights of workers who move to take up employment in another state within the EU.

Canada's embattled sealing industry was dealt another blow Thursday when a European Union court upheld the EU's three-year-old ban on seal products.

The European Commission announced on Monday that it has launched a formal investigation into a group of smartcard chip suppliers.

European Union negotiators are expected to finalize the bloc's first common rules on mortgage lending on Monday, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of property bubbles that helped fuel the euro zone's debt crisis.

A Europe-wide ban on the trade of seal fur and products is expected to be overturned this week, in a move that will reignite one of the world's most contentious wildlife issues.