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EU orders Hungary to drop food price cap on foreign retailers
Date: December 11, 2025
By Foo Yun Chee and Inti Landauro BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Thursday ordered Hungary to scrap a limit set on retail price margins on food products and drugstore articles...
Factbox-How might Russia react to any EU decision to use its frozen assets for Ukraine?
Date: December 11, 2025
By Gleb Bryanski and Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The European Commission has proposed an unprecedented use of about 210 billion euros of frozen Russian sovereign assets to finance...
Microsoft fights $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences
Date: December 11, 2025
LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Microsoft was on Thursday accused of overcharging thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and...
EU aims to agree by Friday to long-term freeze of Russian central bank assets
Date: December 11, 2025
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) - European Union governments want to agree on Friday to freeze Russian central bank assets immobilised in Europe for as long as necessary, replacing the...
Bank of England to cut rates on December 18 to 3.75% and again in Q1 2026 - Reuters poll
Date: December 11, 2025
LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Bank of England will cut interest rates by a quarter point to 3.75% on December 18, according to all economists polled by Reuters, with evidence showing still-elevated...
Germany's PCK refinery says no impact from pipeline leak
Date: December 11, 2025
FRANKFURT, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Germany's PCK said on Thursday it was operating normally and drawing on internal stocks, a day after a crude oil spill from a pipeline which feeds the refinery from the...