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Nine member states call for FTT to be introduced as soon as possible. The finance ministers of nine eurozone governments have called for a tax on financial transactions to be...

Supply back to normal level for most member states, but problems remain in Germany, Italy and Romania. Gas flows from Russia have returned to normal levels in most of the EU...

Commission president says €82bn in unspent structural funds should be used to create jobs and help business. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European...

There are limits to the notion, held particularly by Germans, that protection from market pressure would only impede adjustment and reform. For the third year in a row, the...

Europe's treatment of minorities endangers our core values. To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of...

Commission warns of new challenge in European Court of Justice. The European Commission is preparing to refer Italy to the European Court of Justice for a second time if it...

Why Germans are reluctant to help Italians. In a recent letter (“Fear and irrationality hold sway in eurozone's decision-making”, 5-11 January), Mauro Galluccio proposes...

Kallas promises review of EU ship safety rules; EU offers to help with environmental clean-up. Siim Kallas, the European commissioner for transport, will brief members of the...

The European destination of the first major tranche of Caspian gas to be decided by April. By April, we should know how the first major delivery of Caspian gas into Europe...

EU later this month expected to agree on a ban on imports of Iranian oil. Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, has said that Italy will only agree to an embargo on imports of...

EU's foreign policy chief responds to criticism from foreign ministers of 12 member states. Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has been forced to...

Italy's prime minister says eurozone fund needs to be "significantly bigger". Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, has said that the eurozone's bail-out fund needs...

Since the summer, smart consolidation of public finances has given way to growth-impairing cuts. In June, it was Greece. In August, it was France, Italy, Portugal and Spain....

Only the European Central Bank has the unlimited wherewithal to save Europe from the abyss now. Panic is beginning to overwhelm the eurozone. Italy and Spain are caught in...

Even with more money from the EU, the International Monetary Fund will need to look for money from elsewhere if it is to help the eurozone's struggling economies. Christine...

EPP seeks to minimise disruption and S&D could lose two vice-presidential posts. Strasbourg notebook Parliament briefing MEPs spent much of their week in Strasbourg...

The long-delayed formation of a government in Belgium brings to an end an interesting post-modern experiment in apolitical politics. At just the moment that the leaders of...

Senior politicians say treaty change should wait until euro crisis is under control; convention needed for democratic legitimacy. A group of senior European politicians has...

European Commission describes proposals as “timely and ambitious”; parliament to vote today. Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, will today present a €30 billion...