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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...

Van Rompuy wants EU leaders to discuss economic growth and job creation Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, is asking leaders of EU governments to...

Leaders of Germany and France to discuss next set of deadlines for solving the crisis. The president of France and the chancellor of Germany will meet next Monday (9 January)...

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...

Europe's leaders will have to have a better 2012 than they did 2011. What has been missing most from the European Union during 2011 has been leadership. Leadership, even of...

Initial draft presented to national governments. Eurozone agrees €150bn of extra loans for IMF Officials from the European Union's member states will work...

Leaders want ESM to have greater powers but Parliamentary approval is required in Finland. The decisions taken at the European Council are intended not only to enforce...

European Union officials are racing to draw up an inter-governmental treaty on stricter fiscal discipline while fearing that financial markets will not wait for the new rules...

As a seven-time holder of the presidency of the EU's Council of Ministers, Denmark will bring with it invaluable knowledge of running the EU. But there are plenty of...

Who will say 'Yes' to the inter-governmental treaty? Questions remain over how many non-eurozone countries will sign up to the ‘fiscal compact' deal reached at the summit.

Brok, Verhofstadt and Italy's Gaultieri to represent Parliament In working group The European Parliament today chose three MEPs to join a group that will draft a ‘fiscal...

Distance lends enchantment to the view, or so the poet said. But the hard prosaic truth is that the more distance we have on the outcome of last week's negotiations at the...

Schulz says Parliament must be an "equal partner". MEPs have called on Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, to ensure that the European Parliament is...

European Commission president tells MEPs that David Cameron's demands put the single market 'at risk'. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission,...

Van Rompuy told that the Parliament wants to be "an equal partner" in drafting treaty. MEPs today demanded that Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, ensure...

Possibility of parliamentary disapproval and the need for referenda place question marks over EU's new economic treaty. Nine of the ten EU member states that do not use the...

Germany says the treaty would have “everything of substance” needed to protect the euro in the long term. Eurozone countries are aiming to finalise by March a new treaty...

UK vetoes changes to Lisbon treaty; group of 23 countries sign up to intergovernmental treaty. David Cameron, the UK's prime minister, has vetoed plans to change the EU's...

European Commission president says EU leaders must come up with measures to protect the eurozone. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European...

The European Council that starts this evening and continues tomorrow (8-9 December) will be one of the most important in recent history. Council to postpone Serbia's...