Articles, tagged with "european commission", page 5

Limitations on Corporate Relocation Grants

Corporate Relocation Grants can be a great boost to businesses. They allow you to move your business to where the money is to be made, into places like Kent in the UK. Businesses are not usually eligible for Corporate Relocation Grants if they are only in... Read >
Author: John McLean

Curtailment of Abnormal Credit Card Fees

The European Union Competition Commission has issued a specific communiqué that interchange fees for consumers must be cut across the 26 nations of the European Community. The European Commission informed the Master Card (credit card company) that it was... Read >
Author: Daniel

Business Grants – applying and eligibility

Business grants exist to help businesses develop. They are available from a number of different sources such as the Government, European Union, Regional Development Agencies, Business Link, local authorities and some charitable organisations. Many busi... Read >
Author: Helen

Mobile Phones - EU Cracking down Roaming Costs

During the summer of last year the European Commission passed legislation that essentially put a "cap" on the amount mobile service providers could charge when their customers are "roaming" the EU. Since then there has been an average price drop of 60... Read >
Author: Liam Gerken

Riester-Rente: Benefits for Home Owners in 2008?

Should anybody saving with the Riester-Rente (the German contributory pension scheme) intend to have a house built, or to buy a new property, he may soon be able to invest state pension subsidies and savings to finance this. Indeed this may turn out to be... Read >
Author: mlauterwein

Overview of the Spanish Mortgage Market

Here's the new ruling! Even if you own property in Spain but don't live in Spain you will have to pay taxes on your property in Spain as if you were living there. This is just one of the many tax rules that have come into play recently and is causing the ... Read >
Author: steve magill

Mixed reactions to new Ofcom VoIP regulations

Ofcom will start regulating the burgeoning internet telecoms sector this summer to ensure that customers are fully aware of the potential limitations of some computer-based phone services. Ofcom said that by the end of the year, there could be as many... Read >
Author: Alison White

By degrees: The different German dialects

German is one of the most popular languages in the world. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records has listed the German language as one of the three languages that are learned the most by people. It is also included in the ten most spoken languages in... Read >
Author: Philip Nicosia

WHY DOES THE EU ALWAYS PICK ON PACKAGING

"No one has ever seen a photograph of one tonne of CO2 but politicians can readily point to packaging waste which is visible to consumers every day" THIS statement by an executive for a multi-national packaging manufacturer beautifully describes why pa... Read >
Author: Patrick Altoft

Eurid

Eurid Eurid, otherwise known as the European Registry of Internet Domain names, is a not for profit organization based in Belgium that is specifically established to run the new .eu registry. Eurid has been appointed by the European Commission to hand... Read >
Author: Mark Lawson

Obstacles To Small Business Usage Of eLearning In Europe

I would like to start my article with a few economic facts which could lay a background for the message I want to get across. The political agenda of making Europe the most competitive global economy by 2010 has not been matched by developments over ... Read >
Author: Colin Mc Cullough

Start process of .eu has started

The Commission of the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and EURID, the registry of eu-domains, have signed recently the contract about the eu-domains. EURID reports that, the Commission will formally notify ICANN of the selected registry operator allowing official... Read >
Author: Hans Peter Oswald

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