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EU finance ministers considering big increase in involvement of private sector in bail-out of Greece. Finance ministers from the EU's 27 member states will today try to...

Strong opposition from non-eurozone countries. Finance ministers from the European Union have raised the possibility of introducing a financial transaction tax solely in the...

US treasury secretary's remarks do not go down well with some eurozone ministers. Timothy Geithner, the US treasury secretary, met some negative reactions when he attended a...

Officials say Spain will not be forced to seek financial aid. EU finance ministers and officials today said they believe that Portugal's bail-out will draw a line under the...

The meeting of EU finance ministers on Tuesday (15 February) was a chance for Brian Lenihan, Ireland's finance minister, to bid farewell to his counterparts. Lenihan has...

Euro was at a near two-month low this morning. The crisis in the eurozone shows little sign of slowing down despite the Irish government yesterday unveiling its ambitious...

The centre-right holds lead in the polls as the centre-left struggles to remain united. Sweden's general election, to be held on 19 September, looks like being a vote for...

Eurozone reviews of national budgets and tougher sanctions among options being discussed by EU crisis task-force. A special EU task-force is meeting for the first time...

Finance minsters concerned about proposal to give Commission powers over national budgets. The European Commission is facing strong resistance from governments to its...

Barroso says member states must show they are serious about fundamental reforms. The European Commission today (12 May) called for a major reinforcement of EU control over...

Troubled country must reduce its budget deficit by four percentage points this year. The finance ministers of the EU today adopted a list of structural reforms that Greece...

Ministers to discuss how to deal with US banking plans. Finance ministers will next week (16 February) discuss how to co-ordinate their response to US plans to limit the...

Sweden proposes a fee to fund bail-outs but plan receives cautious response from ministers. European governments will attempt over the coming months to agree on how the...

A look back on Sweden's six months at the helm of the Council of Ministers. Sweden's six-month presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 2009 was...

Swedish presidency praises agreement but MEPs argue that reforms are too weak. Finance ministers agreed today on reforms to strengthen EU-level financial supervision.

Disagreements between member states put changes at risk. The combined efforts of the European Commission and Sweden, which holds the presidency of the Council of Ministers,...

Spain's finance minister has yet to show if she can escape from her boss's shadow. The victims of the financial crisis have included some of Europe's finance ministers. One...

EU struggles to agree over climate change while Czech threats continue to loom over Lisbon treaty. Climate change and the Lisbon treaty will dominate next week's meeting of...

Lack of agreement between finance ministers puts decision on support for developing countries in EU leaders' hands. EU finance ministers today failed to agree a common...

EU presidency is hopeful of a full agreement on creation of systemic risk board this year. The Swedish presidency claimed today to have secured a “broad political...