Jose Manuel Barroso

The German economy has shown signs of strain and raised fears across world financial markets that Europe is far from containing its crisis.

Europe has started down a road to far-reaching legal changes that would see the EU police budgets before they pass domestic lawmakers.

Asian stocks bounced after tentative steps by eurozone policymakers to tackle a crippling debt crisis, but investors remained wary.

Eurozone leaders have agreed to a sweeping deal that will grant Greece a massive new bailout and radically reshape the currency union’s rescue.

The European Union and Japan agreed to start talks towards a multi-billion-euro free trade deallinking the world’s third biggest economy to the globe’

After months of wrangling, the European Parliament is set on Wednesday to return Jose Manuel Barroso to the EU’s most high-profile post.