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Stability programme to be presented in January as trade unions call strike against austerity plans. The Greek government has been given a month to come up with a plan to...

26 member states will be subject to excessive deficit procedures. Every member state except Bulgaria will in 2010 have a budget deficit in breach of the 3% of the gross...

Finance ministers call for action to aid economic recovery. Finance ministers will agree next week that member states should begin reducing their budget deficits by 2011...

Commission to announce that countries have deficits beyond the limits set by the Stability and Growth Pact. The European Commission will announce next week that a further...

China and Japan must do their bit to reduce the current-account deficit of the US now that Europe has played its part. Burden-sharing is the international phrase of the...

Implying that Germany is free-riding on other countries' stimulus packages is an inversion of the truth. Since last autumn, Germany has been accused by a number of...

Commission tells France, Greece, Ireland, Spain and the UK to reduce deficit to within 3% of GDP. The European Commission today (24 March) set deadlines for five countries...

Emil Boc becomes the country's new prime minister; dealing with economic slowdown high on new government's agenda. Romania's new government took office today (23 December),...

Agreement obscures lowering of ambitions and continued deep divisions. EU leaders have agreed to a €200 billion economic stimulus package to counter the effects of the...

Heading into the EU summit, the European Commission's president is optimistic of a landmark agreement. Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission's president, has said...

EU finance ministers agree last detail for Slovakia's adoption of the euro. Slovakia today took its final step before adopting the euro, when EU finance ministers set...

Disciplinary moves halted after the Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal and Slovakia reduce their deficits. EU finance ministers today agreed to halt disciplinary measures...

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to create an elite defence group of the EU's six biggest member states once the Lisbon treaty comes into force next year. The...

The public finances of some eastern European countries are giving cause for concern – both to the European Commission and to rating agencies. Simon Taylor takes stock. The...

The European Union's efforts to go green risk job losses, business and unions have claimed in the run-up to the publication of a package of draft energy laws. The European...

Amid all the promises to do better in future, the good intentions of the Bali Conference have mostly skirted round the fact that climate change is the consequence of the...

The Czech government is facing renewed criticism from the European Commission for failing to get its public deficit below the requirements of the EU Treaty. Joaquín...

The European Commission will next week give the green light for Cyprus and Malta to join the euro from next January. On 16 May the Commission is expected to approve a report...

Nowadays it is a common complaint that meetings of the EU's finance ministers, Ecofin, are not as entertaining as they used to be. If anyone wants to liven them up, they...

With the incumbent Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány looking likely to win a second term in office following the next round of voting in Hungary's elections on 23...