Merkel tried to bounce Spain into IMF bailout: ex-PM
PARIS (Reuters) - On a rainy day in November 2011 in the hulking concrete Palace of Festivals in Cannes, where film stars strut on the red-carpeted staircase in warmer months,...
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Europe needs new dream to revive fortunes: Lamy
PARIS (Reuters) - If European policy elites could choose the next head of the EU's executive, Pascal Lamy, the Frenchman who stepped down as head of the World Trade Organisation...
Analysis: Russia’s phantom pain to hurt Ukraine in EU pact
PARIS (Reuters) - When Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov was trying to warn former Soviet satellite Poland against joining the U.S.-led NATO military alliance in the 1990s, he laced gallows...
Analysis: Convalescent euro zone seeks to escape debt overhang
PARIS (Reuters) - As the euro zone's weakest members crawl out of their longest recession in modern history, their prospects of recovery are weighed down by a crushing mountain of...
Analysis: Not much left for Europe’s left
PARIS (Reuters) - What is left for Europe's mainstream center-left? Socialist and social democratic parties that shaped the protective European social model and ruled much of the continent a decade...
Analysis: Success, compromise, ageing erode Europe’s Greens
PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's Greens have got the blues. The anti-nuclear environmentalist movement that burst into politics in the 1980s as a youthful third force has suffered a string of...
Analysis: Europe, waiting for Germany, could be disappointed
PARIS (Reuters) - European policymakers have higher hopes than expectations of change in German policies after a general election next Sunday that has kept much European business on hold for...
Exclusive – West warned Egypt’s Sisi to the end: don’t do it
PARIS (Reuters) - Western allies warned Egypt's military leaders right up to the last minute against using force to crush protest sit-ins by supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohamed...
Analysis: UK’s Cameron aims to erase EU goal of ‘ever closer union’
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's long-running political civil war over Europe is as much about symbols as it is about substance. So advisers to Prime Minister David Cameron are looking for...
Syria’s Assad may cling on, Britain will not arm rebels: sources
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has abandoned plans to arm Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and believes he might survive in office for years, sources familiar with government...