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The decision by BASF to close down its production of GM crops operations in Europe prompts questions over whether Europe can afford to be a ‘GM-free continent'. Crop...

Move follows rating agency's decision to downgrade France and Austria; Mario Draghi warns of “very grave state of affairs” in eurozone. Standard and Poor's, the...

S&P strips France and Austria of AAA status; Cyprus and Portugal downgraded to 'junk'. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, has strongly...

Credit-rating agency says sovereign-debt crisis is putting all eurozone countries at risk. Moody's, a credit-rating agency, has warned that the credit ratings of all...

While the EU wants to change how it deals with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fragile peace in the country is rapidly deteriorating. For close to 16 years, Bosnia and...

Austria's finance minister has a reputation for hardness. Trying to sum up any person in two words is usually invidious, but few would argue with the Austrian newspaper that...

Why a row over Austria's release of a Soviet commander is more than a dusty historical question. Who bears responsibility now for the crimes of the Soviet past? This is the...

Five banks from Spain, two from Greece and one from Austria have combined capital shortfall of €2.5 billion. Eight banks have failed stress tests designed to check...

Paper says Eufor unable to deal with serious problems as number of troops set to drop to 1,200 in the autumn. The European Union's peacekeeping force in Bosnia and...

Otto von Habsburg, an improbable doyen of the European Parliament, dies at 98. Otto von Habsburg, who died this week at the age of 98, served 20 years in the European...

Finance ministers to discuss banking secrecy. Officials are hoping that next week's (17 May) meeting of finance ministers will at last see movement on the EU's plans to...

Austria's 'nice guy' vice-chancellor is now in the spotlight. In another life, Michael Spindelegger might have been in a hole holding bones instead of pressing the flesh of...

Bulgarians and Romanians face continued restrictions. On Sunday (1 May), Austria and Germany will fully open their labour markets to citizens of eight countries in central...

Eurogroup loses one of its strongest advocates of fiscal probity. Last week, the Eurogroup, the grouping of finance ministers from eurozone countries, lost one of its...

Luxembourg and Austria aim to maintain secrecy but Hungary seeks to strike deal on tax in May. EU finance ministers will later this month discuss widening co-operation on...

Eleven member states to open up postal market but concerns about slow progress on competition. Postal service monopolies are due to end in most of the EU on 1 January, amid...

The EU makes its presence felt at the G20. The EU's over-representation at meetings of the G20 continues. At past summits, both Spain and the Netherlands have managed, by...

Bagging a top job in the EEAS. Werner Faymann, Austria's chancellor, is a paid-up member of the Catherine Ashton fan-club. He was one of a triumvirate from the Party of...

Only the patient and those with a great deal of local knowledge will fully enjoy a new book about Austria. Paul Lendvai, a Hungarian who is one of Austria's most prominent...

Plans give states greater freedom to grow or ban but biotech firms and anti-GM groups are unhappy. National governments will have more freedom to choose whether to grow or...