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Europe moves ahead with fiscal union, UK isolated
Europe divided on Friday in a historic rift over building a fiscal union to preserve the euro, with a large majority of countries led by Germany and France agreeing to move ahead with a separate treat
Credit warning gives EU summit last chance on debt
A shock warning that almost the entire eurozone including Germany is sliding towards a debt downgrade left EU leaders with just three days on Tuesday to bridge big splits over the debt crisis.
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French, Germans explore idea of smaller euro zone
German and French officials have discussed plans for a radical overhaul of the European Union that would involve setting up a more integrated and potentially smaller euro zone, EU sources say.
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Euro zone contemplates future without Greece
European leaders were preparing on Thursday for the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone to preserve the 12-year-old single currency.
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Merkel, Sarkozy call emergency meet after fresh Euro turmoil
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will hold an emergency meeting ahead of the G20 summit in Cannes in the wake of Greek Premier George Papandreou's surprise refer
Germany, France reach agreement on Europe's banks
The leaders of Germany and France, the eurozone's two biggest economies, said Sunday they have reached an agreement about how to strengthen Europe's shaky banking sector amid the region's debt crisis.
Merkel braces in Berlin for latest poll disaster
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's fractious coalition faced another stinging electoral setback on Sunday as voters trooped to the polls in state elections in Berlin.
The colourful Social Democrat may
Silvio Berlusconi under attack for ‘crude joke’ about Angela Merkel
Silvio Berlusconi, the embattled Prime Minister of Italy, is at the centre of a fresh controversy, this time for allegedly making a crude joke about the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, during a
German chancellor Merkel's father dead
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's father has passed away at the age of 85, the chancellor's office said.
Merkel cancelled her attendance to a scheduled campaign rally, ahead of elections in a state,
Obama praises Germany’s role in North Africa
Notwithstanding Germany’s abstention from the UN Security Council resolution on Libya, US President Barack Obama termed it as a world leader and praised Berlin for playing an important role in the democratic transition currently underway in North Africa.
