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EU imposes massive fine on TV, monitor producers
For years, some top managers at electronics multinationals would hold secretive meetings in Europe and Asia to fix the global market on the most ...
Argentina complains to WTO over US, EU barriers
Argentina filed complaints with the World Trade Organization Wednesday over trade barriers it blames for keeping its beef and lemons out of the United ...
UK Treasury chief juggles budget as outlook dims
Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne said Wednesday that the recovery of the U.K. economy is taking longer than he had hoped and warned more ...
Barcelona soccer club defends use of Catalan
Long a symbol of Catalan identity, Barcelona soccer club added its voice Wednesday to a simmering political dispute between the region of Catalonia ...
Survey: Greece seen as most corrupt in EU
The countries worst hit by the European financial crisis are also perceived as being among the most corrupt in Western Europe, and those perceptions ...
Clashes over financing threat UN climate talks
The world's poorest nations on Wednesday called for significant financing to cope with the impacts of global warming, setting up a potential clash ...
As Netanyahu visits Europe, relations frayed
It was supposed to be an amicable meeting between close friends. Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Germany has been soured ...
48 nations join forces to fight online child abuse
Forty-eight countries united Wednesday in a global alliance to fight child sexual abuse online, a cross-border crime that experts say is increasing ...
Georgian president and premier in battle of wills
It is a battle of egos that could not be more visible: The shining palace of the president and the lavish glass villa of the new billionaire prime ...
Blizzard halts traffic at Sweden's main airport
Traffic at Sweden's main airport came more or less to a stand-still Wednesday, delaying the anticipated arrival of some of this year's Nobel Prize ...
Eurozone retail sales slump in October
Retail sales across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro slumped far more than anticipated in October, largely due to a huge drop in ...
Class of 2012: Young Europeans trapped by language
Maria Menendez, a 25-year-old caught in Spain's job-destroying economic crisis, would love to work in Germany as a veterinarian. Germany, facing an ...
Class of 2012: Would you move elsewhere in EU?
A language trap is blocking young people from seeking opportunity across the European Union. The Associated Press asks the Class of 2012: Would you ...
Palestinians: settlement expansion means 1 state
The Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council to call for an Israeli settlement freeze, President Mahmoud Abbas and his advisers decided ...
UK downplays economic sanctions against Israel
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has downplayed the possibility of European economic sanctions against Israel for its latest ...
Spain's jobless near 5 million as banks await cash
The number of people officially registered as unemployed in Spain has edged up toward 5 million as the country's recession shows few signs of abating ...
Germany, France at odds over EU banking supervisor
European Union countries are dragging themselves to a year-end summit with a heavy load of unfinished business aimed at shoring up confidence in the ...
Holder to help launch alliance against pedophilia
Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström will launch a global alliance targeting online child ...
Europe takes on tech giants and their tax havens
A storm is brewing in Europe as nations try to force Internet powerhouses like Google and Amazon to pay more in taxes. Governments, hungry for money ...
Peru asks UN court to set sea border with Chile
Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas ...
Germany set to achieve balanced budget this year
Germany will achieve a balanced budget across all layers of government this year thanks to a resilient economy, low unemployment, higher tax revenues ...
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
Britain to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance
The British government said Monday it would spend more money catching tax avoiders, after a lawmakers' committee accused major multinational companies ...
Greece, Cyprus center stage in eurozone meeting
Details of a plan for Greece to reduce its heavy debt by buying some of it back at bargain prices will be presented Monday to finance ministers from ...
Palestinian president returns triumphantly from UN
The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at ...