Socialists hope efforts, using state shareholdings, to seek executive pay cuts will bear fruit in forthcoming parliamentary elections

Swiss Re's disposal of its American business highlights changing landscape as regulation threatens to make life even tougher for insurers

Leaders need to be ready for a Greek exit. In panicked markets, investors flee to havens, sparking other flames, writes Robert Zoellick

Biggest shareholder hopes to ease concerns that he has joined forces with management to control the company amid conflict with Oleg Deripaska

Madrid is pressed to reveal the details of the government's €19bn Bankia rescue as top ministers meet international and European economic leaders

The European aerospace group's chairman had ‘other things to attend to' when the new management team took over at the shareholders' meeting

Investors have high hopes for chairman Leif Johansson, described as ‘tank covered with pillows', as he readies for ‘period of significant change'

Shareholder in Italian insurer to make bid to force Giovanni Perissinotto, chief executive of Italian insurer, to step down at weekend board meeting

Agency lowers ratings on nine banks, including the country's largest lender Danske Bank, as part of a broad review of the European financial sector

Energy developments off Italy that were closed in response to BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill are expected to receive approval to reopen