
Guests attending the investiture of new Dutch king
Royals and other dignitaries are out in force Tuesday to watch the abdication of Dutch Queen Beatrix and investiture of her eldest son, ...
Lloyds posts 1.5 billion net profit in 1Q
Part-nationalized Lloyds Banking Banking Group is reporting a massive turnaround in its fortunes, with a 1.5 billion ($2.3 billion) in net profit ...

Serbian lawmakers vote to support Kosovo deal
Serbian lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly supported an agreement normalizing relations with breakaway Kosovo, a potentially landmark deal that could ...

Spain slashes forecasts and delays deficit targets
Spain slashed its economic forecasts Friday and said it would take two years longer than promised to cut its swollen deficit in an acknowledgement ...

Cyprus further eases limits on money transfers
Cyprus significantly eased restrictions on money transfers inside and outside the country Thursday to help businesses spur a deeply slumping economy.

Italy premier-designate short of securing support
Italy's premier-designate, Enrico Letta, said candidly Thursday he is still short of securing support for a ruling coalition after Silvio Berlusconi's ...

Top ECB official cautions: rate cuts have costs
A top European Central Bank official warned Thursday that another interest rate cut might not be much help for eurozone countries in recession — ...
EU lawmakers support free trade deal with US
European Union lawmakers have voted in favor of starting talks on a wide-ranging free trade agreement with the United States. A parliamentary ...
Google agrees to change search display in Europe
Google has agreed to change how it displays search results in Europe — including a better labeling of its promoted content and displaying links to ...
German finance minister digs in on austerity
Germany's finance minister is insisting that Europe can't spend its way out of its economic problems — digging in against mounting criticism of the ...
EU lawmakers block air passenger data access
European Union lawmakers are blocking proposals that would allow law enforcement agencies to access a wide set of data on international airplane ...
Lloyds deal to sell branches to Co-op collapses
Lloyds Banking Banking Group says a mulitmillion pound deal to sell hundreds of branches to Co-operative Group has unraveled. Part-nationalized Lloyds ...
EU probes planned merger of Greek airlines
The European Commission has opened an in-depth antitrust investigation of the proposed takeover of Greece's Olympic Air by its domestic rival Aegean ...
UK alleges GSK paid off competitors to delay drugs
Britain's competition watchdog accused GlaxoSmithKline on Friday of paying off competitors to delay launches of their own versions of GSK's ...
EU aims to get US trade deal by next year
The European Union's top trade official says negotiations with the U.S. on what would become the world's largest free trade agreement should be ...
EU OKs $2.7bn Siemens takeover of UK rail firm
The European Union's antitrust body has cleared a 1.74 billion pound ($2.7 billion) takeover of a British rail technology company by German industrial ...

Portugal launches another round of spending cuts
Portugal's government is pushing ahead with deeply unpopular austerity policies, announcing plans Thursday to save 800 million euros ($1 billion) this ...
France follows IMF in slashing growth forecasts
The French government has finally bowed to reality, lowering its official economic growth projections and acknowledging that its deficit won't fall ...
ING to sell stake in US arm for up to $1.5 billion
ING Groep NV says it will sell a 25 percent stake in its U.S. arm for around $1.4-$1.5 billion in an initial public offering, as part of measures ...

Official: Cyprus lawmakers to vote on bailout deal
Cyprus' parliament must vote on the 23 billion euro ($30 billion) bailout deal the country has agreed upon with international creditors, the Cypriot ...
EU cap-and-trade system suffers blow
Europe's fight against climate change was dealt a setback on Tuesday, when EU lawmakers voted against a proposal that would have made it more ...
EU: Test show no safety issues with horsemeat
More than 7,000 tests across the European Union have shown that nearly 5 percent of the food products labeled as beef contained horse meat, but there ...

ECB's Draghi urges speedy banking union
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi urged the 17 countries that use the euro to move swiftly toward completing a full banking union to ...

Greece seals deal with debt inspectors
Greece cleared an important hurdle in its drive to receive its next batch of bailout loans from its international creditors Monday. But even though ...
Google clears another step in EU antitrust case
Google has taken another step toward settling a European antitrust investigation focusing on whether the Internet giant is abusing its dominant ...