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Investment is vital to ensure the long-term prosperity of the eurozone. The rescue package for Portugal and the recent electoral success of the populist True Finns party...

The greatest threats to the eurozone may be passing. It now needs to agree on rigorous governance structures. Anxious followers of the fortunes of the single currency are...

EU leaders reject idea of easing access to the eurozone but hint at more flexible rules for entry into the eurozone's waiting room. EU government leaders on Sunday (1 March)...

Opportunism will continue to haunt the British economy. After ten years in which the UK economy was outperforming that of the eurozone, it now appears distinctly shaky....

Europe's economic prospects tend to be painted in black and white. Optimists generalise from a resurgent Germany, suggesting that Europe, with its disciplined labour force...

THE European Commission has vowed to hold fire on its pro-euro ‘propaganda' until the Swedes or, later, the British people have made up their own minds to ditch their...

THE wait is over and the wait begins. For the UK's answer on the euro, that is... After UK Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that his famous five economic tests had not yet...

THE chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee says it is “unimaginable” that the UK will remain outside the single currency. German...

THE European Union is on course to be taken over by communist China in the world economic stakes unless it mends its ways, the chairman of Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever...

THE German chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee has intervened in the debate over whether Britain should join the euro, urging UK...

THERE will be a plethora of referenda in 2003, with at least nine out of the ten candidate countries consulting their electorates, starting with Malta on 8 March, and...

DENIS MacShane has told of his delight at being appointed UK Europe Minister, describing it as his “dream job”. He takes over from Peter Hain, who retains his role as...

from Turkey to Lithuania By Craig Winneker

Less than one month into the new year, UK Premier Tony Blair has acquired the dubious status of being the only European leader still sitting on the euro fence as Greece,...

THE European Commission is to urge EU governments to scrap the remaining obstacles to efficient markets in goods, services and capital to take full advantage of the arrival...

THE politicians and central bankers are about to hand over the euro-baton to the business world. But no one is too sure how to handle it, because economic and monetary union...

EUROPEAN trade unions have issued a stark warning that without significant changes, the proposed ‘employment chapter' of the revised Maastricht Treaty will be strong on...

THE applicant countries of central and eastern Europe (CEECs) are watching the progress towards EMU with more than detached interest. Whenever the Union chooses to enlarge,...

IF you ask a businessman anywhere in Europe about the Intergovernmental Conference which starts on 29 March in Turin, you will be confronted by a virtual lack of...