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Malmström drops bid for suspension clause and Denmark proposes ‘early-warning' system. Governments get help to deal with asylum claims The Common European...

Austerity measures make pay increase inappropriate. The Council of Ministers has rejected the pay rise that the European Commission proposed for EU staff for 2011, arguing...

Member states launch legal challenge against European Commission. The member states of the European Union have rejected a proposal from the European Commission that officials...

Agreement on single work permit, but national governments will retain right to define conditions. National governments will retain the right to define conditions for work...

Finance ministers discuss ways to change EFSF. Deal struck on derivatives Asmussen backed for ECB role Trichet predicts slow eurozone growth Eurozone...

Middle East tops ministers' agenda in Luxembourg. National foreign ministers will on Monday (10 October) hold their first debate on the Middle East since France broke ranks...

Officials to make crucial visit to Athens next week; Greek authorities need €8bn by mid-October. Officials working for Greece's international lenders are expected to...

Anti-fraud office looks at at alleged irregularities at the European Court of Auditors. The EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, has begun an investigation into alleged...

Finance ministers agree terms of enlarged European Financial Stability Facility and its permanent replacement. EU finance ministers have reached a deal to expand the...

Finance ministers to meet on 3 July to discuss next tranche of Greek loan. Eurozone finance ministers have stepped up the pressure on Greece's authorities to introduce...

Deal would see €12 billion released. Finance ministers from the 17 countries which use the euro are meeting in Luxembourg tonight to work out terms for releasing a...

Split over terms of second bail-out could lead to delay of additional aid package. Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Sunday and Monday could delay a...

Employment ministers could ditch Parliament's maternity leave plans. A plan for longer maternity leave in the EU could effectively be killed off when employment ministers...

Package of €150m likely to be increased. Dacian Cioloş, the European commissioner for agriculture, today announced a €150 million compensation package for EU...

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...

A secret meeting to discuss the eurozone's sovereign-debt crisis was not secret for long, and the markets are getting increasingly worried. Another week in the eurozone,...

Efforts need to be made to close the gap between the Belgian city and the EU institutions. Brussels claims to be the capital of Europe, but the claim is, like much of the...

Eurogroup president says permanent mechanism would have twice the effective capacity of existing fund. The European Union's finance ministers have agreed that a permanent...

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...

Luxembourg's prime minister gets a vote of confidence. Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's prime minister, chairs meetings of the eurozone finance ministers, the Eurogroup....