EU foreign ministers on Monday decided to ignore protests from the European Parliament and approve a deal that would give US authorities access to information on air passengers arriving from Europe. According to the agreement between the US and the EU, American law enforcement agencies will receive data on people leaving Europe for the US, including credit card numbers and email addresses. Washington believes that this measure is necessary to combat global terrorism.

This spring, writer Vyacheslav Pyetsukh held a corporate master class in Russian for employees of the Arsenal School of Managers. The company decided that a competent communication style would have a positive effect on productivity - primarily for managers who work with clients. Mistakes and inappropriate expressions in business letters and employee conversations irritate clients.

The initial public offering of shares of the Internet search engine Google is not scheduled to take place until the summer, but there are already some people who have made money from this IPO. Enterprising Dutchman Shamoon Rafik has extracted $500,000 from wealthy New York investors by offering to buy Google shares through him on the cheap. Google's impending IPO was first reported late last year.

Deputies are not satisfied with the amount of monetary compensation proposed by officials for benefits that are currently provided in kind. According to parliamentarians, the monthly additional payments from the budget calculated by the Ministry of Health are incomparable with the real cost of free services for beneficiaries. However, for now the bill establishing them cannot even go beyond the White House.

The largest flour mill in the region, the Nizhny Novgorod flour mill (NMZ), which is part of the Lindek grain holding, has been put up for sale. An announcement about this was published in the Vedomosti newspaper. The Lindek company, which owns a controlling stake in NMZ, said that the announcement was placed by another shareholder and creditor of the plant, Nizhegorodpromstroibank.

CANNES - Cannes showed a film that was expected to cause a furor like no other competition film before it - the documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" by American Michael Moore. The furor would have happened in any case, even if the film had turned out to be mediocre. Even before the screening, the 2,500-seat "Lumiere" hall gave Moore a loud ovation when he came. Posters flashed in the crowd at the entrance: "Moore for President of the USA!

" Mosenergo " - " BrokerCreditService ". BrokerCreditService (BCS) has raised its recommendation for Mosenergo common shares from "sell" to "hold" and its price target for 2004 from $0.049 to $0.087. BCS analyst Alexander Kornilov notes that Mosenergo is Russia's largest regional energy system, supplying Moscow and the Moscow region with electric and thermal energy, which are the largest energy consumers among Russian regions.

Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's National Congress party that won the parliamentary elections, has refused to become the country's prime minister. Indian financial markets have revived. Last Thursday, the results of the general elections to the parliament were announced in India. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which emphasized the policy of liberal economic reforms, attracting foreign investors and privatization, lost. Vajpayee resigned as prime minister.

Lewis Michael. The Newest New Product. History of Silicon Valley. - M., Olimp-Business, 2004. - 384 p. "A man has a sense of rhythm, you just have to allow it," says satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky. "All innovations do not appear as a result of marketing research or carefully planned campaigns, but are born from people who are out of their minds," says management guru Tom Peters.

After a period of stagnation in the investment banking sector, it would seem that the hot season is finally upon its participants. The economy is growing, stock prices have risen significantly from the bottom, and there is a revival in the IPO and M&A sectors. But the leading investment banks are not very enthusiastic. Investment banks are facing challenges they have not faced in previous economic recovery periods.

Since May 12, single doses of drugs have been effectively legalized in Russia. Human rights activists, doctors, and drug addicts have won a victory over officials from the Federal Service for Control of Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances. Now a person cannot be sent to prison just for being a drug addict - real drug dealers will have to be caught. In December last year, the State Duma adopted presidential amendments to the Criminal Code aimed at humanizing it.

Last weekend, the second summer blockbuster, Wolfgang Petersen's Troy, hit theaters in America and 47 other countries. Despite its starring cast - Brad Pitt (Achilles), Orlando Bloom (Paris), Diane Kruger (Elena), - the film grossed $6 million less than Van Helsing, which opened a week ago.

A year ago, the cellular company MegaFon was headed by Sergey Soldatenkov, who came from the post of CEO of OJSC North-West Telecom. During this time, the company has transformed from a dark horse of the Russian cellular market into its full-fledged participant. By May 2004, MegaFon had deployed networks in 66 regions of Russia, overtaking its main competitors - MTS (62 regions) and VimpelCom (59).

The second largest American oil and gas company, ChevronTexaco, has sold off some of its fields in the United States. The buyer of these assets, another American company, XTO Energy, paid $1.1 billion for them. In the context of rising oil prices, American oil and gas companies are increasingly paying attention to assets within the United States and are ready to pay significant amounts for local fields.

China intends to review anti-dumping duties on Russian cold-rolled steel, the annual damage from which for domestic exporters amounts to $80 million per year. The Russian side expects the duties to be completely abolished. Due to "changes in the domestic and global steel markets," China's Ministry of Commerce will consider lifting duties on cold-rolled steel on June 1. On December 26, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced the complete abolition of duties on steel imports into the country.