EUROPE - INDEXES - Changes DJIM Europe

www.djindexes.com -Changes Follow Regular Annual Review - LONDON (7 June 2012) – Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the results of the regular annual review of the Dow Jones Islamic Market Titans 100 Index and its three subindexes, Dow Jones Islamic Market U.S. Titans 50 Index, Dow Jones Islamic Market Asia/Pacific Titans 25 Index and Dow Jones Islamic Market Europe Titans 25 Index as well as the Dow Jones Islamic Market Malaysia Titans 25 Index. All changes will be effective after the close of trading on Friday, June 15, 2012.  (source)

FRANCE - Finding a Home for Islamic Finance in France

In February 2008, when France's economy minister, Christine Lagarde, announced that making her country more open to Islamic finance was to become a top priority, she threw down the gauntlet to her neighbors across the English Channel -- the United Kingdom is the largest Islamic finance market in Europe, holding roughly US$19 billion in Islamic financial assets, according to Bloomberg. Since Lagarde's declaration, economic policy has been changing in France to help Islamic finance find a foothold in the country. The Ministry of the Economy appointed an Islamic finance specialist, Thierry Dissaux, last year to create a legal route allowing financial instruments based on Islamic law, known as shariah.

NETHERLANDS - EVENTS - Islamic Finance Symposium Nov 17, 2010 - Tilburg

The hottest topic in the Islamic intellectual world in the West is whether the financial meltdown and Wall Street collapse of the last year would not have happened if we had an Islamic system of finance instead of 20th Century capitalism.