Critical to get new bill passed by year-end, PM Johnson to tell parliament

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual news conference on the ongoing situation with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Downing Street, London, Britain September 9,…

UK says no return to EU negotiations next year, need deal by January

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will not return to trade talks with the European Union next year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said on Monday, stressing that any agreement had…

FACTBOX-The Benettons: Italian magnates who went from sweaters to roads

[ad_1] MILAN, July 15 (Reuters) – The Benetton family started building its fortune in the 1960s with a small Italian knitwear factory and ended up at the head of an…

Dutch vote brings Unilever step closer to unification

[ad_1] By Toby Sterling, Martinne Geller AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) – Unilever NV UNA.AS shareholders approved plans to end the Anglo-Dutch company’s dual-headed corporate structure and form a London-based entity, which it…

New U.S. tariffs on French, German aircraft parts, wines to start Tuesday

[ad_1] By Andrea Shalal, David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Monday said it would begin collecting new duties on aircraft parts and other products from France and…

Disagreements over level playing field weigh on EU-UK talks – Sky News

[ad_1] LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The trade talks between Britain and the European Union have suffered fresh problems because of disagreements about guarantees of a so-called level-playing field in…

Brazil’s BRF settles U.S. class action suit for $40 million: filing

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Logos of Brazilian meatpacker BRF SA are seen in the headquarters in Curitiba, Brazil October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Rodolfo Buhrer SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian food processor BRF…

France sticking to ‘red lines’ as Brexit talks continue – govt spokesman

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Fishermen empty a fishing net aboard the Boulogne-sur-Mer based trawler “Nicolas Jeremy” in the North Sea, off the coast of northern France, December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol…

UK and EU can see ‘landing zone’ on level playing field – RTE

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: British and European Union flags flutter ahead of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s arrival for a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels,…

Denmark’s Chr Hansen to sell food colouring unit to Sweden’s EQT

[ad_1] Sept 26 (Reuters) – Danish ingredients maker Chr Hansen Holding A/S said on Saturday it would sell its food colouring business to Swedish private equity firm EQT for 800…