Plaid's Jill Evans MEP and North Wales AM Janet Ryder in Brussels for talks about European Commission proposals to open up the road haulage industry to competition. The Plaid politicians oppose the plans and want to ensure that Welsh hauliers will not be subject to unfair competition from companies based in other European countries who are able to take advantage of lower fuel prices and poten...

Companies will be allowed to favour female or black job candidates ahead of white men without the threat of legal action under a new equality law.

The offer of the bosses of the main car companies in the US to work for $1 a year in return for federal assistance shows great political wisdom that has been sadly lacking amongst top bankers. It also shows a grasp of economic reality still sadly lacking in the financial sector.

A leaked intelligence document issued by Spain’s CNI spy agency in October warns that Russia is aggressively pursuing a plan to “monopolize access to energy supplies to Europe.” The report validates what many analysts have been saying for a long time, namely that Moscow is using Russian energy companies to gain geo-strategic control over northern, central and southern Europe. &nb...

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday announced a new £30 million fund to invest in technology companies looking to expand their business.

Scotland's engineering companies are facing up to their sharpest fall in orders for five years, reports BBC Scotland's business correspondent.

Vladimir Putin seems to have just discovered how international financial markets work and he doesn't like it: Decisions concerning which securities to buy or sell on Russian markets are, for the most part, made abroad. Moreover, the criteria by which these decisions are made have very little connection to the actual state of our economy or Russian companies... This is some kind of ugly thing,...

The first and deputy first ministers tell companies in the United States that Northern Ireland is still open for business.

Saturday's emergency union reps meeting was excellent - good turnout, focused discussion and most importantly a clear plan of action to unfold over the coming weeks and months. There are measures to support those facing job cuts now, measures to tackle the pay freezes imposed by some companies and...

The French oil multinational will be prosecuted along with four other companies for the blast that has already landed it with a compensation bill of up to £700m