BRUSSELS - The small glass bottle filled, and refilled, with golden olive oil has long been a staple on many restaurant tables across Europe. Now, the European Union is going to ban it. The European Commission, the EU's executive, said Friday that, as of next year, restaurant customers will only be allowed to use oil from non-refillable bottles with proper content labeling to douse their crusty bread or garden salad. EU spokesman Olivier Bailly said consumers often get fooled by being served cheap olive oil. Non-refillable bottles would also improve hygiene, he claims.

BRUSSELS - A senior EU official says China may be illegally dumping and subsidizing the import into Europe of mobile telephone networks and their essential elements. But Competition Commissioner Karel De Gucht says an official investigation, while approved by the European Commission, won't be launched now as officials seek an amicable resolution. Wednesday's announcement came as the Commission, the EU's executive arm, is nearing the end of an investigation into whether China illegally dumped solar panels into the EU.

EU ministers agreed early on Wednesday a reform of the EU's fishing quota system that must now be approved by the European Parliament, where lawmakers are set on curbing overfishing. Ireland, which is chairing the talks under the country's six-month EU presidency, is trying to reconcile the conflicting interests of member states with the hardline stance of the European Parliament. The key sticking point is Parliament's insistence that discards -- the wasteful practice of dumping unwanted fish overboard -- should be banned.

Popular support for the European Union and greater economic integration to combat the debt crisis has fallen sharply, especially in key member France, a Pew Research survey shows. Under the headline 'The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union,' the survey shows favourable opinion of the EU slumping from 60 percent in 2012 to just 45 percent now. In France, the reading tumbled from 60 percent to 41 percent. "The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis," it said in a report late Monday.