Europe

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BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Carol Matlack	How Italy Is Grounding Alitalia To many observers, Alitalia seems like yet another state-owned European air carrier destined for extinction, but the condition of Italy's flag carrier doesn't have to be fatal if the state relents and lets the carrier make the cost cuts that could enable it to prosper.
InternetNews May 13, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Launches Supercomputing Center Big Blue opens a European counterpart to its U.S. Deep Computing On Demand center in hopes of expanding business.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004	Investors Fight Back From the Netherlands to South Korea, corporate boards are taking major steps to improve shareholder rights in the wake of financial scandals.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Einhorn, Reinhardt & Kline	Acer: Riding A Hot Streak Sales for the Taiwanese PC maker Acer are soaring in Europe and Asia. Can it crack China and the U.S.?
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Jack Ewing	Is Siemens Still German? Worker representatives at the electrical engineering company have concluded that Siemens is contemplating the elimination of 74,000 jobs from Germany in the next decade.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Capel et al.	Europe's Old Ways Die Fast The two-year bear market, and a slew of homegrown corporate scandals, is spurring European shareholders to stand up for their rights.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Kerry Capell	Royal Ahold: From Europe's Enron To Model Citizen? More than 800 angry shareholders of Royal Ahold gathered at the Hague on Mar. 3 for what would be a first in Dutch corporate history, a shareholders' meeting devoted purely to corporate governance.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Carol Matlack	What's Shackling France's Big Chains Unable to trim prices, hypermarkets are losing share to smaller no-frills shops in France.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 David Fairlamb	Switzerland: In The EU's Tentacles? There is a creeping, semi-hostile takeover of Switzerland by the European Union occuring. More and more, Brussels is the boss, even forcing its rules on Zurich's banks.
Bank Systems & Technology May 6, 2004 Ivan Schneider	Bulgarian Bank Modernizes Core Systems International competition in prospective E.U. country calls for a new core.
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