Europe

Magazine articles on conducting business in European countries.

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BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Kerry Capell	Aer Lingus: A Risky Holding Pattern Why Dublin needs to decide quickly on the airline's future ownership.
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Level 3 Takes VoIP to Europe Level 3 Communications has launched a partner program in Europe, allowing resellers to offer Voice over IP services to small and medium businesses.
InternetNews November 23, 2004 Clint Boulton	Torvalds Puts Name to EU Software Patent Dispute Open source software gurus criticized a European Union council for attempting to add a software patent directive they say will stifle innovation and competition.
InternetNews November 22, 2004	ContentGuard Dealmaker? French technology play Thomson is taking a stake in digital rights management tech provider ContentGuard. The move could help cool simmering European Union objections to the acquisition of the company by Microsoft and Time Warner.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Guten Tag, Starbucks Deutschland The coffee purveyor snaps up a 100% stake in its German operation.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2004 Rich Smith	Death and Taxes in Russia Fateful words. Over the past month, Russia's tax police have been very busy, "discovering" huge arrears in taxes owed for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Total tax demands on YUKOS now stand at roughly $25 billion.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Maureen Kline	The De Benedettis Are Back In Business Compagnie Industriali Riunite (CIR) share price has shot up 80% in the past two years. (The De Benedetti clan retains a 47% share.) The company, now focused on media and publishing, auto parts, and power, will post a 10% increase in profit over last year.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Ewing, Foust & Eidam	DHL's American Adventure In short, it's war, as DHL, the $28 billion delivery and logistics company controlled since 2002 by Deutsche Post World Net fights to become a credible alternative in the U.S. to FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Ewing & Cohn	Beware The Brawny Euro As it strengthens, Europe's currency threatens to snuff out a tenuous recovery.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 John Rossant	France's Industrial Power Trip Paris can't stop interfering with the economy -- and that's bad news for Europe.
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