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Euro ministers turn to Greece after banking deal
Finance ministers from the 17 EU countries that use the euro currency will on Thursday decide whether to hand over billions more to Greece, rescue ...
Google, Belgian papers reach accord on copyright
Google says it has reached an agreement over copyright issues with a group of French-language Belgian newspapers, ending a six-year dispute. In a ...
Clijsters beats Venus Williams in farewell game
Former No. 1 Kim Clijsters ended her career with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Venus Williams in a ceremonial farewell match in Belgium. Clijsters retired ...
French star Depardieu moves to lower-tax Belgium
A Belgian mayor says famed French actor Gerard Depardieu has bought a home and set up legal residence in his small town, lured by the food, the ...
Ship sinks off Dutch coast, 4 dead, 7 crew missing
Four crew members died and seven were missing in the icy waters of the North Sea, after a cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank off the ...
Officials: Serbia's NATO ambassador leaps to death
Serbia's ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a multistory parking garage at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to ...
Greece launches $13 billion bond buyback plan
Greece revealed Monday plans to spend up to €10 billion ($13 billion) in a bond buyback program that it hopes will help stabilize its mountainous debt
EU executive wants 2-speed integration
The European Union's executive said Wednesday it wants to allow the 17 member states that use the euro currency to move faster toward economic ...
EU pays $230M a year to keep Parliament on road
If European Union leaders are looking to save some serious money, they might look no further than the "traveling circus" that is the European ...
WHY IT MATTERS: The EU budget debate
The Issue: Europe's leaders will gather in Brussels on Thursday to decide on how much the European Union, the political and economic partnership ...
Art's perfect theft: the 'Ghent Altarpiece'
The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said to have whispered with his dying breath: "Only I know where the 'Adoration' is..." More than seven ...
Greece to get 2 more years but delay to bailout
Greece's international creditors failed to agree Monday on how to get the country's bailout program back on track and put off again the release of the ...
European leaders, royalty remember end of WWI
Politicians and royalty observed a moment of silence at tombs across Europe on Sunday to commemorate the end of fighting in World War I and remember ...
Balkan asylum seekers come under suspicion
Azra Ajeti's fellow Gypsies have been buffeted by accusations of filing bogus asylum claims in the rich EU, but she says there's nothing phony about ...
Protests outside Ford European HQ in Germany
Ford workers angry about the automaker's plans to shutter a plant in Belgium broke windows and burnt tires in a demonstration outside the company's ...
Belgian Crown Prince at heart of royal scandal
This time, Belgium's royal family came out swinging. Crown Prince Philippe, 52, had been depicted in a book as less of a man than is needed to become ...
Belgian royals complain to ethics body over book
The royal palace has lodged a complaint with a media ethics group over the publication of a book highlighting alleged dalliances and private family ...
AB InBev revenues up despite sales dip
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world's biggest brewer, says its third -quarter revenues rose by 9.1 percent, despite a slight decrease in the global ...
EU beer brewers refuse to swallow French suds tax
France, the land of wine, is planning heavy taxes on beer, and that is not going down well with brewers — even in other nations. President Francois ...
6 decades later, probe to solve political murder
The story goes that when Prince Baudouin took the oath to succeed his father after years of tumult over the monarchy, Communist leader Julien Lahaut ...
ExxonMobil executive shot in Belgium
So far, it's still a mystery. A British oil executive gunned down in front of his wife in the Belgian capital of Brussels. Helmeted assailants ...
Ford to shut more plants as Europe losses grow
Ford pressed ahead Thursday with its plan to slash production in Europe, announcing another plant closure and 1,500 more job cuts, as it warned that ...
Bailout, layoffs: New pain ahead for EU carmakers
The extent of the European car industry's troubles was laid bare Wednesday, when France's government tossed a financial lifeline to the continent's No
Ford closes Belgian plant in 2014; 9,500 jobs hit
Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday it planned to close a car plant in eastern Belgium — one of its main European factories — by the end of 2014, a ...
British FM warns against more power for Brussels
Britain has struck out against pressure for the 27-nation European Union to centralize more decision-making as the continent tackles its debt crisis, ...