Topic: European Union
LONDON (Reuters) - With governments laboring under too much debt and banks hobbled by too little capital, 2012 is shaping up as another year of hard slog for Europe's economy that could yet test the single currency to destruction.The Netherlands on Thursday ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Denmark said Europe's financial crisis was the chance to transform the region into a much greener economy as it set out priorities Monday for its forthcoming European Union presidency beginning in January."We are facing the worst economic crisis since ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Conservatives have overtaken the Labour opposition in an opinion poll for the first time this year, enjoying a bounce from Prime Minister David Cameron's veto of a new European Union treaty, the latest Reuters/Ipsos MORI poll showed on ...
The head of Canada's central bank on Monday welcomed European efforts last week to address a deepening debt crisis but warned of much pain ahead for the eurozone and said EU nations must do more.European Union leaders from 26 of the 27 ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany want a new EU framework to speed up progress towards a common corporate tax base and a financial transaction tax as well as convergence of financial regulation and labor market policies, a Franco-German letter sent on ...
PARIS (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Germany will not leave this week's EU summit until a "powerful" deal is reached to arrest the euro zone debt crisis, Paris said on Wednesday, as latest borrowing figures exposed the stressed state of ...
China pledged support Tuesday for European action on the sovereign debt crisis and expressed hopes that an EU summit this week can help stabilise markets and stop it from spreading."The Chinese side will continue to support the building of a unified Europe ...
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The centre-left mayor of Slovenia's capital Ljubljana won a narrow victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday, making the outgoing Social Democrats the latest casualties of the euro zone economic crisis.The defeat for Prime Minister Borut Pahor was expected, ...
ZAGREB (Reuters) - A center-left opposition bloc is on course to take power in Croatia on Sunday but faces a tougher fight to revive the ex-Yugoslav republic's flagging economy before it joins the European Union in 2013.Voters look set to punish Prime ...
ZAGREB (Reuters) - A centre-left opposition bloc is on course to take power in Croatia on Sunday but faces a tougher fight to revive the ex-Yugoslav republic's flagging economy before it joins the European Union in 2013.Voters look set to punish Prime ...