European Business

Air Berlin , Europe’s third-biggest low-cost airline, saw-third quarter operating earnings increase as cost cuts helped its bottom line and more business travellers appeared to sign up for discount travel.

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Lenin’s statue still stands proud in central Minsk, the KGB is still the KGB and authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko shows no sign of bringing his 14-year rule to an end any time soon.

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Cameron Bennerman dominated the basketball court at Grimsley High School, Hargrave Military Academy and N.C. State. Now, he hopes one day to score on the catwalks of Milan, Paris and New York. The 24-year-old Greensboro native is putting out a line of T-shirts and trying to launch a fashion business, Likuid ‘N’ Ation. read more

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008 — Four travel buyers—Mark Avery, U.K. head of business services for PricewaterhouseCoopers; Bernadette Basterfield, international head of travel for JP Morgan Chase Bank, based in the United Kingdom; Else Marie Madsen, travel manager for Lego, based in Denmark; and Peter Sijbers, director of senior sourcing for airlines and corporate card for Philips, based in the …

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The economies of Bulgaria and Romania are the worst off in Eastern Europe, according to an article published on Thursday in the authoritative “Economist” magazine.

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VIENNA (AFP)–Slovakian budget airline Sky Europe reported a further drop in full-year results with a loss of EUR59.4 million euros, compared to EUR24.07 million last year, preliminary figures showed.

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Europe explained: the Record Europe takes its weekly look at the key events and issues in the EU institutions.

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David Neal, vnunet.com , Friday 28 November 2008 at 13:11:00 Failure to find an investor prompts desperate action Lycos Europe has outlined its future business plans to shareholders in the face of disappointing interest from prospective buyers. The firm has carried out extensive research into its business, and found…

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Lycos Europe has outlined its future business plans to shareholders in the face of disappointing interest from prospective buyers.

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Lycos Europe has outlined its future business plans to shareholders in the face of disappointing interest from prospective buyers. The firm has carried out extensive research into its business, and found very limited interest in an acquisition.

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