Antitrust, rules, compliance
The Irish presidency wants to trim the 2028–2034 financial framework to around €1.6 trillion, a reduction aimed at satisfying frugal member states. Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands say it still isn't tight enough.
The People's Bank of China cleared Visa to begin preparatory work on October 13. It still needs further authorisation before it can process domestic transactions — and rivals American Express and Mastercard are already further along.
The European Commission president used her State of the Union address to call for the Single Market to be completed and red tape cut. A new EU Inc proposal would let founders register a company online in 48 hours for less than €100.
France's civil aviation authority ordered 5% of flights cancelled at Charles de Gaulle and 25% at Marseille-Provence on Tuesday. The disruption follows a pay-freeze dispute; no link between the airport's operator and a sanctioned airline is established by the available facts.
The failures sent stopping distance from 38 to 140 metres and left drivers without conventional foot brakes. China's government has since published draft rules requiring 30,000km of road testing before any new model can go on sale.
A review of 19 jurisdictions found that China, Australia, Brazil, the EU and Switzerland lack emergency funding arrangements for failing banks that meet the Financial Stability Board's standard. Only Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US fully comply.
The moratorium would target semi-finished nickel products, which make up 50 to 60 per cent of Indonesia's output. Chinese investment accounts for about 75 per cent of the country's nickel refining industry and has contributed to the oversupply.
Finance ministers agreed to expand ESMA's powers over major market operators, but scaled back the original plan. Deutsche Börse stays under German supervision, and the number of trading venues under direct EU oversight falls from 12 to 8.
Germany, Spain and four others have asked Ireland, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, to consider a bloc-wide windfall levy. Energy executives warn the move could end voluntary consumer protections like capped fuel prices.
US regulators found the company's anti-money-laundering controls were so weak that suspected trade-based activity slipped through undetected for ten years. The Federal Reserve also issued a cease-and-desist order against American Express and its travel services subsidiary.
Emails involving Levi's, Hanes and Scotts Miracle-Gro sit at the centre of the state's price-fixing claim. Amazon says its conduct is pro-competitive and saves customers money.
The prime minister says the choice will come down to price, quality and construction time, with a decision on technology due by the end of 2027. Armenia has also signed a civil nuclear deal with the US and reviewed proposals from about a dozen companies.
The deal would see ESMA supervise stock exchanges, clearing houses and crypto providers directly, rather than simply coordinating national regulators. Germany secured an exemption for Deutsche Boerse, and a final text still needs to clear the European Parliament.
The German retailer's chief executive travelled to Moscow to request the move, fearing it would otherwise be caught off guard. Putin signed the decree on 28 September; Metro retains formal ownership but has lost operational control of a business with €2.6 billion in annual sales.
The agency will not charge the three asset managers over their role in backing dissident directors at ExxonMobil's shareholder meeting. Its report warns that joining groups seeking to influence board composition could cost investors access to cheaper reporting forms.
Governor Abbott has halted both grid connections and environmental permits for data centres while audits are completed. The queue of requested capacity has grown to 474 GW — more than five times the state's record peak load, with data centres behind roughly 90% of requests.
Moscow wants planes, crews and maintenance to meet a near-tripling of passenger traffic on the route. Vietnam's main airline flies only Airbus and Boeing jets, and handing any over could expose it to US secondary sanctions.
The European Commission is reworking its CORE proposal — a fixed annual charge on large companies — to capture more revenue from Apple, Meta and Google without triggering US tariff retaliation. Most of the 27 member states currently oppose it, and any revised version needs their unanimous approval.
Beijing has imposed a 20 per cent tax on offshore gains and trust income, reaching back a quarter of a century. Wealthy mainland Chinese are rethinking the structures they use to hold money abroad, with some shifting towards family offices in Dubai and the Cayman Islands.
Rules introduced in July put a 20 per cent tax on gains when assets move into offshore trusts, with a 90-day settlement window closing on October 22. How the rules apply to private placement life insurance remains unresolved, with further guidance expected.
Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen has asked officials to examine a one-year postponement of the import rules, due to take effect in January 2027. Analysis suggests compliance problems could shut out roughly 43% of the EU's natural gas imports and 87% of its crude oil imports.
The ban cuts Namibia off from its largest beef market overnight. More than 80 percent of the country's beef exports — around 10 million kilos a year — go to Europe.
The two leaders have written to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen calling for a mechanism that could restrict Chinese access immediately, without needing every member state to agree. Bloomberg Economics put the cost of lost market share to Chinese manufacturers at 0.7 per cent of EU GDP in 2025.
The average customer lost 35.1 minutes of supply last year, with a 6.6 times gap between the best and worst served areas. NESO has identified over 80 transmission upgrades it says are needed to meet demand.
Maroš Šefčovič wants voluntary limits on Chinese hybrid and electric car exports after Brussels imposed tariffs in 2024. He has warned that thousands of EU jobs are at stake if the trade gap does not come down.
Ministers want to keep British carmakers inside the EU's proposed Made in Europe scheme, which rewards manufacturers who align with the bloc's China trade policy. The EU took 58% of UK car exports in the first half of 2026, giving Britain little room to diverge.
A single line in the 2018 Farm Bill legalised hemp products that now sell at 35,000 locations across the US. A ban taking effect 11 December caps THC at 0.4 milligrams per container, threatening $28 billion in retail revenue and 225,000 jobs.
The element, 712 feet long, is the fourth placed in a trench south of the Danish island of Lolland, extending the crossing to 2,950 feet. Separately, the €2.8 billion NeuConnect cable linking Britain and Germany has finished installation in UK waters and is being laid through Dutch waters towards Germany.
Hundreds of village-town lenders have been absorbed, and bigger banks are following. The six largest state-owned banks now hold 44% of all commercial bank assets, and Beijing is using the shake-up to steer credit toward its own priorities.
British gene-edited crops would be exempt from EU rules until new European regulations take effect in 2028. The wider agreement would strip away most food and agricultural trade checks, but leave Britain bound by EU rules it no longer shapes.
The two sides could not find a way to protect the French insurer from anticipated US restrictions on dollar transactions. The ICC says it has a new health insurance provider, but has not named it.
The Treasury Department targeted Iran Khodro and SAIPA, which together produce nearly 1.5 million vehicles a year. Rail companies and overseas firms supplying auto parts were also named under Operation Economic Outcast.
Beijing's commerce ministry called the reported EU instrument a protectionist measure that would disrupt China-EU trade. Germany and France are pushing the European Commission to fast-track a tool modelled on a US unfair trade provision.
The retreat follows Xi Jinping's 2021 pledge to stop funding coal power plants abroad. Experts warn that regulatory loopholes still allow Chinese companies to invest in overseas coal, though the scale is unclear.
A connection screw in the steering system can corrode in road salt and damp conditions, potentially causing a loss of steering control. No incidents or injuries have been reported, and dealers will replace the part free of charge in under an hour.
Moisture and road salt can corrode the steering-mounting bolt over several years, potentially causing drivers to lose control. No accidents have been reported, and owners can have the part replaced free of charge.
France says public subsidies should go only to factories inside the EU's 27 member states. Germany wants the rules extended to trading partners such as Norway, Switzerland and Canada.
Brussels imposed duties of up to 45% on Chinese electric vehicles in 2024, but left hybrids at a flat 10%. Imports have risen from 3,800 a month to roughly 50,000, and Chinese brands now hold 12% of all new European car sales.
The proposed rules would restrict only pathogen research and biotechnology with potential weapons uses. Almost half of US licensing deals for foreign drugs in 2025 have involved Chinese companies.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India says a follow-up formula sample failed biotin requirements, and that two other products made promotional claims that breach infant nutrition marketing rules. Nestle says all its products comply with regulations and that the labels were approved by the regulator's own expert committee.
An independent review found staff knew about the bank's vulnerabilities by March 2022 but held back, citing a culture in which acting without certainty felt personally risky. The bank collapsed a year later with 31 unresolved safety issues on its books.
A millisecond defect in Nats' squawk code system caused airspace restrictions lasting up to six hours on 8 September. The passenger backlog took more than two days to clear, and the Transport Secretary has ordered a full investigation.
A Kremlin decree has transferred control of Nestlé, Auchan, Lemana Pro and FM Logistic to a state-linked company with no prior business activity. Russia has used the same legal framework to take over local units of Carlsberg, Danone and Fortum.
Chinese hybrid sales in Europe rose thirteenfold in under two years and now account for more than a third of the market. EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is expected in Beijing in October, when both sides had set a deadline for substantial results.
More than 20 products banned under international law were listed on the three platforms as of September 1, most still available after the companies pledged to remove them. Some contained mercury at levels tens of thousands of times above the US legal limit.
The Reserve Bank of India rejected Tata Sons' bid to escape its financial-company registration, closing the last route the conglomerate had pursued to stay private. The timing, size and structure of any public offering remain unknown.
The federal order follows revelations that OnStar collected speeding habits and location data every three seconds, then sold it to brokers who helped insurers set rates. California secured a separate $12.75 million penalty — the largest yet under its privacy law.
The air traffic control provider's flight data processing system failed on Tuesday afternoon, leaving Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester among the worst hit. The UK government has given Nats one week to explain what went wrong, and calls are growing for its chief executive to resign.
Canada has fired back with tariffs of up to 50% on around $20 billion worth of American goods, covering steel, aluminum and dairy products. The dispute cuts awkwardly against Bombardier's own argument: its planes are built with American engines, wings and parts from 2,800 US suppliers across 47 states.
The demand came hours before Canada was due to hit $20bn worth of American goods with retaliatory tariffs. It is unclear how any sales ban could be enforced, given existing trade agreements and FAA approvals already in place.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a federal lawsuit after ISS refused to comply with a subpoena issued in July. The records sought include internal methodologies, recommendation communications and client-level voting data going back four years.
Golden Global Bank and two subsidiaries stand accused of helping Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps move oil revenues from China into cash and gold in Turkiye. Foreign banks that do significant business with the targets could also lose access to the US financial system.
The regulator claims Amazon misled the businesses that buy placements on its advertising platform about how its pricing and auction systems actually work. Key details of the complaint, including the scale of the alleged harm and the remedies sought, have not yet been made public.
Premier Susan Holt has launched a five-month public consultation on whether to lift the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, in place since 2014. A decision is expected in January 2027, though Holt was careful to say the review is
The FTC and five states settled antitrust claims against both property platforms on the morning their trial was due to begin. Redfin must now rebuild the rental advertising business it shut down — and rehire the staff it let go.
The new levy would sit on top of the 12.5% forced-labour tariff already applied to Chinese imports. Officials say the rate is deliberately modest, designed to avoid derailing a planned Trump-Xi summit expected in late September.
US safety investigators have confirmed a fractured fan blade sent fragments through a cabin window on the Ryanair jet that partially sucked a Serbian passenger from his seat on 10 July. Bird feathers were also found inside the damaged engine, though investigators have not yet established whether a bird strike caused the blade to break.
The measures, grounded in a national security investigation, take effect in September. Even close allies such as the EU, Japan and the UK are not exempt, though they face lower rates.
Severe convective storms have surpassed hurricanes as the world's costliest insured peril, with U.S. losses topping $50 billion for the third year running and $794 billion recorded globally over the past 25 years — forcing insurers to fundamentally rethink how they model and price the risk.
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