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Lithuania is 19th country to adopt the euro, but currency union remains deep in crisis
January 2nd, 2015
Lithuania has become the 19th European country to adopt the euro – but enters a currency union deep in crisis. The former Soviet republic is the last of the Baltic nations to adopt the euro after Estonia joined in 2011 ...
European shares extend sell-off as energy stocks suffer
December 12th, 2014
European shares slid on Friday, with further declines in the price of oil hitting energy stocks, while political concerns over Greece also pegged back equities. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell 1.1 percent to 1,342.24 points, while the euro ...
European Antitrust Regulators to Hold Discussions With Google’s Rivals
November 12th, 2014
European antitrust regulators will hold discussions with the companies most concerned by Google’s business practices before deepening existing investigations or resolving them, the new competition commissioner for the European Union said Tuesday. Google has faced an increasing barrage of ...
Laiki and the European Central Bank in the New York Times
October 27th, 2014
The bankruptcy and accumulated debts of the Laiki Bank were a key element of the Cyprus financial crisis. A recent article (“To Restore Confidence in Economy, A Test of Europe’s Bank’s”, October 17) in The New York Times discusses ...
Investment Program supported by European Finance Officials
September 15th, 2014
A three-year, €300 billion program to spur the European economy won broad support from finance ministers. Finance ministers of the European Union have endorsed plans to leverage hundreds of billions of euros in order to finance new infrastructure projects ...
Russian European food sanctions have consequences
September 5th, 2014
Bas Feijtel has a bumper crop of pears and no place to sell them all, so he’s leaving a quarter of them to rot. That’s because the price he gets for his pears plunged 70 percent from last year after ...
China antitrust probes hit concerns over European firms
August 13th, 2014
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China on Wednesday expressed concern over a recent series of antitrust investigations, saying China was using strong-arm tactics and appeared to be unfairly targeting foreign firms. An array of industries have been ...
Russian Carrier to Suspend Flights due to European sanctions
August 4th, 2014
Sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union have led the Russian state carrier Aeroflot to suspend all flights according to its announcement on Sunday. The sanctions, announced on Tuesday, said the subsidiary, Dobrolet, “facilitates the integration of the ...
European Stocks Drop for a Second Day on Ukraine Conflict
July 18th, 2014
European stocks fell for a second day, paring a weekly advance, amid concern that conflict between Ukraine and Russia is deepening. U.S. index futures were little changed, while Asian shares declined. Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa AG dropped at ...
Handful of non-EU banks to make European stress tests debut
July 16th, 2014
A handful of global banks are bracing themselves for their first results from Europe’s bank stress-testing regime, which will tell them in October whether they have enough capital to withstand future crises. Banks outside the European Union have traditionally ...
