EU-IMF postpone visit to Athens in dispute over reforms
BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) - Inspectors from the EU and IMF have postponed a planned visit to Greece, officials told Reuters on Friday, a move that marks a new low in relations...
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Europe pushes ahead with stricter data privacy rules
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament voted to strengthen Europe's data protection laws on Monday, including plans to impose fines of up to 100 million euros on companies such as...
Troika of IMF, ECB and EU here to stay, says Rehn
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU's top economics official issued a strong defense of the 'troika' of international lenders on Thursday, saying the monitoring team was essential to restoring euro zone...
Insight: Threat of protest vote casts long shadow over European elections
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In the diplomatic parlor games popular in Brussels, few issues are generating more gossip or being talked about more animatedly than next year's elections to the European...
Analysis: Portugal, Greece risk reawakening euro zone beast
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A teetering Portuguese government has underlined the threat that the euro zone debt crisis, in hibernation for almost a year, may be about to reawaken. From Greece...
Paris, Berlin look to shake up euro zone leadership
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France and Germany have thrown their weight behind creating a permanent president for economic policy in the euro zone, a role that would mark a fundamental overhaul...
Analysis: France and Britain roll the dice on Syria
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and France claimed victory on Tuesday with an EU decision to let them supply arms to Syrian rebels but it brings many risks and was cast...
EU leaders talk tough on tackling Amazon, Google over taxes
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany called for stricter rules to stop companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon aggressively avoiding taxes in austerity bitten Europe, while acknowledging they...
EU leaders look to end Apple-style tax avoidance schemes
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - Growing concern in European capitals about aggressive tax avoidance by high-profile corporations such as Amazon, Google and Apple looks set to steal the agenda of a European...
Analysis: The maze behind EU “treaty change”
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If there are two words that tense the jaws of European policymakers and prompt a concerned sucking of teeth, they are treaty change. Like a nervous driver...