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Greek parties expected to reach agreement on austerity measures tonight. The finance ministers of the eurozone are to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow night (9 February) to...

Greek deal on write-down of debts to banks would open the way for a second bail-out for Greece. European Union leaders today expressed hope at the end of a one-day summit...

Ministers launch talks on multiannual spending, but French elections are set to delay agreement. National governments will be under pressure at ministerial talks on Friday to...

Danish presidency cuts out the waste. More than two years have passed since Denmark was last in the global spotlight, when it was hosting the inconclusive UN talks on climate...

Just who is putting together the inter-governmental treaty? And where are they doing it? Negotiations on an inter-governmental treaty are taking place in the Commission's...

Economic recovery is main priority of new presidency Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union's Council of Ministers on 1 January with the declared intention...

Denmark aims to bring a touch of class to the Council. Denmark has a good reputation in the field of furniture and interior décor. So for at least the duration of...

Repercussions are likely to extend beyond the immediate eurozone crisis. The United Kingdom's refusal to participate with the other member states of the European Union in...

The incoming Danish presidency is split on the bigger questions of European policy, but it should have no problem pushing forward day-to-day work. Those in Brussels wanting a...

Italian PM's reshuffle causes problems for the EU. Not every decision from Mario Monti, Italy's technocratic prime minister, is helpful to the European Union. 

EU leaders discussing how to tackle the debt crisis. EU leaders are meeting in Brussels this evening to tackle the eurozone debt crisis and save the single currency.

Finance minister gets pushed aside. Bjarne Corydon rejoices in the title of finance minister of Denmark, but that does not mean that he will be chairing meetings of the...

A major reshuffle of the Polish government. Poland might be in the midst of its presidency of the EU's Council of Ministers, but that has not stopped Prime Minister Donald...

If the European Parliament does not adapt to the eurozone crisis, a democratic gap will open up. In all democracies, major economic and fiscal decisions need to secure the...

Papandreou to brief eurozone leaders on referendum plan as government faces collapse. Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, are to...

Finance ministers not welcome in the Justus Lipsius building. Amid the sequence of meetings at the weekend on the eurozone's debt crisis, an interesting precedent was set. On...

The European Council's statement of the main results of the eurozone summit. “The euro is at the core of our European project of peace, stability and prosperity.

Rifts emerge between eurozone 17 and the rest. How the weekend unfolded Council in brief When the history of the eurozone debt crisis comes to be written, the...

Deal for latest €8 billion now not likely to be made until November. Further pressure was heaped on Greece by finance ministers of the eurozone tonight as they...