The eurozone crisis seemed to vanish from the headlines for a brief moment as 2011 ticked over into 2012, but it is about to return with a vengeance.

The coming months will be decisive in determining

German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, kicking off a week of high-level talks to lay the groundwork for a crunch EU summit on taming the eurozone crisis.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has closed the gap in voting intentions on his opposition Socialist rival Francois Hollande just four months before their election face-off, a new poll showed on Sunda

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti warned the European Union on Friday not to let divisions over managing its debt crisis blow up into serious splits, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned that

Working almost to exhaustion and persuading countries one by one, European leaders agreed on Friday to redefine their continent — hoping that by joining their fiscal fortunes they might stop a crippli

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 President Nicolas Sarkozy has written to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reaffirm friendship despite what he refers to as their "differing views on the Middle East," Israeli offici

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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘a liar’ in a private conversation with President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during

A report that French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu a 'liar' in talks with US President Barack Obama, won wide coverage in Israel on Tuesday, but officials kept silent.