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/ 5 December 2011
Hopes are high that European leaders may finally agree on a plan to address the continent’s debt crisis at a make-or-break gathering on Friday.
The EU is headed for Rome for talks as the Italian treasury launches a €10-billion bond sale to try to stem the nation’s debt crisis.
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/ 24 November 2011
Portugal’s workers have gone on strike in protest against harsh austerity measures imposed on the country for a bailout from the EU and IMF.
Europe has started down a road to far-reaching legal changes that would see the EU police budgets before they pass domestic lawmakers.
The EU has agreed in principle to sanction some Iranian companies, adding to measures on suspicions that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
Libya’s interim leader says the country won’t turn into an extremist Islamic country, adding a new government of experts will be completed next week.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is set to resign after a parliamentary revolt and a wave of market panic that has shaken the eurozone.
Under pressure from the EU to push through a bailout to save their country, Greek party leaders were struggling to agree on a new prime minister.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou faces a confidence vote with the fate of the nation’s EU/IMF bailout deal in the balance.
Greece’s government has backed out of a proposed referendum on staying in the euro, while European leaders moot Greek exit from the eurozone currency.
Emerging giants are pressuring EU countries at the G20 to solve their debt crisis, with Beijing dangling $100-billion in rescue funds.
European leaders summoned Greece’s prime minister to the French Riviera to restore calm ahead of a G20 summit after his shock call for a vote.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has repeated promises of economic reform as Italian bonds come under renewed attack in the eurozone crisis.
Robert Mugabe has warned Switzerland he would "reciprocate" after his wife and top officials were denied visas to attend a UN meeting there.
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/ 27 October 2011
EU leaders have struck a deal for banks and insurers to accept a 50% loss on their Greek bonds in a bid to try to contain the sovereign debt crisis.
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/ 23 October 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Ban funds to fight the debt crisis.
Syria’s under-fire president has appointed two new governors in flashpoint provinces that have seen staunch protests against his regime.
EU leaders are holding talks to try to hammer out a plan for tackling the eurozone debt crisis, but a breakthrough is not expected until Wednesday.
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/ 22 October 2011
Europe has piled pressure on banks to write off vast Greek debts as leaders struggle to come up with a lasting answer for its credit crisis.
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/ 21 October 2011
The European Union will launch plans to invest €50-billion in modernising digital, energy and transport networks and creating jobs.
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/ 17 October 2011
The eurozone and Greece face their "most critical week" as they battle to reach a solution to the debt crisis, says George Papandreou.
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/ 17 October 2011
The next three weeks are likely to determine the fate of global markets for the remainder of the year, writes <b>Matt Quigley</b>.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet says the EU treaty should be changed to prevent one member state from destabilising the rest of the bloc.
The world’s leading economies are pressing Europe to act boldly within eight days to resolve the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis.
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/ 15 October 2011
The world’s leading economies kept the pressure on Europe to sort out its debt crisis, with the urgency to be expressed at the end of the meeting.
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/ 11 October 2011
Troika inspectors gave a lukewarm approval for a vital aid tranche to Greece, saying Athens was lagging on reforms needed to exit its debt crisis.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has held talks in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy on a crunch weekend for the European debt crisis.
Arab Spring or EU? Speculation ahead of the Nobel peace prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee’s chair.
United States airlines are wrong to think that they can force the European Union to back down on plans to make carriers pay for emitting carbon.
Greek officials have held talks with EU and IMF negotiators to free up urgently needed bailout loans.
The rand, thanks to its volatility in recent days, has quickly become one of the worst performing global currencies.
Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has called for early elections in his first speech since returning to Yemen.