Paul Meller

The European Union is likely to approve punitive import duties on microchips made by South Korean firm Hynix Semiconductor Inc., a Commission source said Tuesday.

The shape of a probably guilty ruling in the five-year-long European Union (E.U.) antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. emerged this week, following a leak from an internal panel reviewing the handling of the case.

Legal experts have voiced their concern about new European Union cyber-crime rules approved by the 15 national justice ministers last Friday, because they say the rules don't differentiate between a real criminal and political protesters expressing their views by e-mail.

Legal experts have voiced their concern about new European Union cybercrime rules approved by the 15 national justice ministers last Friday, because they say the rules don't differentiate between a real criminal and political protesters expressing their views by e-mail.

European Union justice ministers agreed on Friday to a new legal code designed to clamp down on hackers, virus spreaders and ultimately terrorists and criminal gangs that might attempt to disrupt information networks.

The European Union announced new rules to force national telecommunications regulators in the European Union to ensure healthy competition in a wide range of telecommunications and Internet markets on Wednesday.

A computer industry lobby group filed a complaint about Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system to the European Commission antitrust department Tuesday, as the European regulator nears the end of an investigation into earlier operating system products from the software group.

The European Commission proposed the creation of a Europe-wide network and information security agency on Monday.