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Fitch upgrades Greece's credit rating
Debt-hobbled Greece got a new morale boost Tuesday, with Fitch ratings agency upgrading its sovereign credit grade, a day after the country's European ...
EU probes oil companies for possible price-fixing
European anti-trust authorities have launched investigations into at least three oil companies on suspicion of price-fixing. Britain's BP, Royal Dutch ...
EU pledges $675 million toward Mali reconstruction
On the eve of a major international donors' conference, the European Union announced Tuesday it was pledging 520 million euros ($674.8 million) over ...
EU to shift bill for bank failures to creditors
European Union governments want to shift the cost of rescuing troubled banks from taxpayers to the banks' creditors — including the holders of large ...
German court orders changes to Google search hints
Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday.
Croatia Airlines goes on strike over pay cuts
Croatia Airlines pilots and flight attendants went on strike Tuesday over planned salary cuts and layoffs that are part of efforts to restructure the ...
Visa to lower some card fees in EU antitrust probe
The European Union says Visa has agreed to reduce some credit card payment fees significantly to address concerns raised by the bloc's antitrust ...
Eurozone growth hopes emerge after industrial data
A larger-than-expected increase in industrial production across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has raised hopes that the recession ...
German ZEW confidence survey barely rises
Germany's ZEW survey of investor optimism barely rose in May, reflecting the weak economy in the euro currency union. The ZEW research institute's ...
Iran seeks 'constructive' EU stance in nuke talks
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says Tehran's nuclear negotiator is seeking a "constructive" response from the European Union's top diplomat in ...
German inflation drops to near 3 year low
Inflation in Germany, Europe's largest economy, has hit its lowest rate in nearly three years largely on the back of a fall in fuel costs. The Federal ...
Cameron: EU, US could launch trade talks in June
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the United States and the European Union could launch free trade talks ahead of a meeting of the Group of ...
Poll shows favorable views of EU in sharp decline
Positive views of the European Union by its citizens are near all-time lows. And no EU country is plunging faster into the abyss of gloom than France.
Euro ministers urge troubled Slovenia to act
European finance ministers on Monday urged Slovenia to move swiftly in addressing the problems in its banking sector and get its public finances under ...
Europe at odds over next steps to banking union
European leaders are increasingly at odds over how to create a full-fledged banking union, the bloc's key project to stabilize its financial system ...
Obama, Cameron focus on Syria at White House
President Barack Obama says the United States is working with Britain to strengthen the moderate opposition in Syria and to push for the end of the ...
Cameron dismisses moving up EU referendum
British Prime Minister David Cameron is brushing off political pressure to move up a referendum he has pledged to hold by 2017 on his country's ...
Spain, Portugal demand quick action on bank union
The leaders of Spain and Portugal on Monday demanded that the 17-nation eurozone speed up efforts to create a banking union and complained that credit ...
Bulgarian center-right wins most of the votes
The center-right party of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has fallen far short of winning a majority needed to form a government, according to ...
Liechtenstein ready to relax banking secrecy
Liechtenstein's prime minister says the principality is prepared to discuss an automatic exchange of bank client information with the European Union.
Exit polls: No clear winner in Bulgarian vote
Bulgaria's center-right party and its main challenger, the Socialists, finished first and second in Sunday's parliamentary election, with neither one ...
Germany: Hope to advance Turkish EU talks soon
Germany's foreign minister said Sunday he hopes that a new chapter in Turkey's stalled European Union membership talks can be opened in the coming ...
Bulgarians to elect new parliament amid scandals
Bulgarians voted Sunday in parliamentary elections with no party expected to win a majority to form a government, fueling fears of more political and ...