Topic: Western Europe

Center-right wins Spain election

MADRID (Reuters) - The opposition People's Party (PP) won a crushing victory in Spain's election on Sunday as voters vented their rage on the ruling Socialists for the worst economic crisis in generations.The Socialists conceded a humiliating defeat as official results showed ...

Centre-right wins Spain election: TV exit poll

MADRID (Reuters) - The opposition People's Party won a crushing victory in Sunday's Spanish election, a TV exit poll said, as voters vented their rage on the ruling Socialists for the worst economic crisis in generations.The poll by public broadcaster RTVE predicted ...

Spaniards vote to find way out of crisis

MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards reeling from an economic crisis voted on Sunday in an election expected to throw out the ruling Socialists and bring in a center-right party which promises only harsher austerity measures.A grim mood dominated as people went to the ...

Economic crisis takes toll on bankers

The pressure on London bankers to get to grips with the global financial crisis has led to stress, depression and insomnia among City workers, affecting even the most experienced bosses.The phenomenon was brought to light when the chief executive of Lloyds Banking ...

Economic crisis takes toll on Britain's bankers

The pressure on London bankers to get to grips with the global financial crisis has led to stress, depression and insomnia among City workers, affecting even the most experienced bosses.The phenomenon was brought to light when the chief executive of Lloyds Banking ...

Right storming towards win in crisis-hit Spain

Spain's right was storming towards a landslide win in a vote to be held Sunday, carried by popular anger over an economic slump and a debt crisis that has toppled a string of eurozone leaders.Street protests and a debt market tempest chased ...
More than two-thirds of business leaders in Britain believe the eurozone debt crisis will be the biggest challenge facing the country's economy next year, an opinion poll showed Sunday.Seventy percent of business chiefs believe the euro crisis is "the biggest single factor ...
Japan called on Germany on Friday to step up and help plug the widening hole in Europe's finances, saying Berlin should play a leading role in creating a debt "firewall".Finance Minister Jun Azumi said the continent's largest economy needed to do more ...

Emergency post-election measures won't save Spain

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new government may rush through emergency measures immediately after Sunday's parliamentary election, but unless the euro zone finds a durable systemic solution to its debt crisis, Madrid will still be forced to seek a financial rescue.The center-right People's ...

Analysis: Emergency post-election measures won't save Spain

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new government may rush through emergency measures immediately after Sunday's parliamentary election, but unless the euro zone finds a durable systemic solution to its debt crisis, Madrid will still be forced to seek a financial rescue.The center-right People's ...