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Assange’s embassy life is cramped but connected

YoopyaAugust 21, 2012

by YoopyaAugust 21, 20120

(Reuters) – Living on takeaway meals in a small room with a treadmill to burn off frustrated energy and a vitamin D lamp to make...

Europe News

Budget breather for Greece would spur economic recovery: report

YoopyaAugust 18, 2012

by YoopyaAugust 18, 20120

(Reuters) – Finance ministry officials in Greece have calculated that the debt-stricken country’s economy will recover faster and its debt be more sustainable if it...

Europe News

Small states squabble over euro zone’s future

YoopyaAugust 17, 2012

by YoopyaAugust 17, 20120

(Reuters) – Smaller euro zone countries that have retained top credit ratings through the region’s crisis squabbled on Friday over whether struggling nations like Greece...

Europe News

Breivik report forces Norway police chief to quit

YoopyaAugust 17, 2012

by YoopyaAugust 17, 20120

(Reuters) – Norway’s police chief resigned on Thursday, days after an independent commission found that police could have prevented all or part of a bombing...

Europe News

Eurozone shuttle diplomacy to pick up pace before critical month

YoopyaAugust 16, 2012June 19, 2023

by YoopyaAugust 16, 2012June 19, 20230

(Reuters) – After a brief summer lull, euro zone leaders are gearing up for a round of shuttle diplomacy in the run-up to what could...

Europe News

No escape from slump for Europe’s top economies in July

YoopyaAugust 3, 2012

by YoopyaAugust 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Europe’s biggest economies endured another torrid month in July as businesses battled slumping demand, according to surveys on Friday that gave scant hope...

Europe News

French MPs throw out proposal to audit their expenses

YoopyaJuly 26, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 26, 20120

Members of the French parliament have thrown out a proposal to audit their allowances as the government prepares austerity measures for the economy. They voted...

Business

Insight: Slovenia rues bank mismanagement as bailout talk grows

YoopyaJuly 26, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 26, 20120

(Reuters) – When he took control of his country’s biggest bank in 2009, Drasko Veselinovic expected a rough ride. He knew Slovenia’s state-owned Nova Ljubljanska...

Economy Europe News

Britain sinks far deeper into recession than forecast

YoopyaJuly 25, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 25, 20120

(Reuters) – Britain’s economy shrank far more than expected in the second quarter, battered by everything from an extra public holiday to government spending cuts...

Europe News

Analysis: Hollande’s growth drive dogged by reality of austerity

YoopyaJuly 25, 2012

by YoopyaJuly 25, 20120

(Reuters) – The champion of a moderate stimulus plan for Europe, at home French President Francois Hollande is turning his back on the sort of...