Following a meeting with Wen Jiabao, Angela Merkel adopted a surprisingly conciliatory tone with China over alleged dumping of solar panels

CIF has been looking for a buyer since at least May after its future was thrown into doubt by the evaporation of once-cheap funding from credit markets

While some believe that a deal with Mitsubishi could save the ailing Danish group, others say a radical change is needed to make the company prosper

San Francisco-based fund manager aggressively buys government bonds throughout year, holding most of his employer's €6.1bn of Irish debt

Group plans to raise more capital and broaden its shareholder base as it forges ahead with a $2bn deal to acquire London-traded Nomos

The threatened closure of two plants in Sardinia illustrates the crisis facing Italian industry, with output 22 per cent below its 2008 peak

Europe's second-biggest oil services company by market value has a French chief executive who stands apart from the crowd in many ways

Svartholm Warg detained in Cambodia over Swedish conviction for breaching copyright laws in connection with file-sharing website

Europe's biggest banana distributor shrugs off impact of costlier fuel and fruit thanks to changing method of ship transportation

Any deal to bring large-scale Chinese investment into UK infrastructure, particularly politically sensitive nuclear industry, could be controversial

Oil group sells 30% holding in OML 40, which has been shut sinde 2006, for $102m as part of a programme to sell onshore assets in Nigeria

Italian maker of the eponymous red aperitif gets a taste for rum with $415 deal, extending a run of about 20 acquisitions since 1995