University students from all over the world marched in protest, with Ireland and Italy voicing anger over tuition fees and Filipino students reacting ...
The remarks by Angela Merkel would be more accurate if turned on their head. The austerity and hardships imposed on people to save the Euro are leading to disharmony, division and hostility between the peoples of Europe.
The UK will not be able to resist European calls for a financial transaction tax (FTT) levied on trading, according to a key ally of German Chancellor...
The whole affair in Italy doesn't exactly reflect well on their governance, but the very existence of Monti, and others such as Lamberto Dini who took on a similar role in the 1990s, could be seen as evidence that in some regards, the Italian system functions better than our own.
A couple of days ago, I blogged about Silvio Berlusconi's resignation as Prime Minister of Italy and quoted an English friend of mine who has lived ...
Mario Monti faced a difficult first day as Italian prime minister, as markets kept up the pressure on the country. An auction of five-year bonds on Mo...
Europe could be facing its biggest test since the Second World War, Angela Merkel said on Monday, and suggested even greater regional union was needed...
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has appointed the former European Union (EU) Commissioner Mario Monti as head of the country’s caretaker govern...
Silvio Berlusconi has quit as prime minister after the Italian parliament approved on a package of austerity measures. Members of the lower house v...
Silvio Berlusconi looks to be spending his last few hours in power after the Italian parliament approved on a package of austerity measures. Member...
To shock is not enough for satire. Being merciless and brilliant is not enough either. What it needs for those who are reading it, listening to it and watching it to be scandalised. It needs a moral.
The Italian senate has approved the country's financial stability bill, a package of reforms that the markets believe are essential for the country to...
Markets have been giving Spain "the benefit of the doubt" while they focus on Italy, but the country could be next to feel the heat, according to a ne...
French regulators have been asked to investigate how an error at Standard & Poor's led to the rating agency reporting a downgrade of the country's deb...
The Italian senate is due to vote on austerity measures in the hope of abating the eurozone crisis. A new government is expected to be announced o...
In the end, Berlusconi did not fall foul of a carefully-inserted stiletto-point emerging from behind a curtain of heavy damask, but more mundanely -- merely one of a series of bail-out conditions laid down by a group of leaders of whom he considered himself a worthy part.
Eurozone growth forecasts were slashed on Thursday as the sovereign debt crisis entered a dangerous new phase. Markets are on tenterhooks as Italy...
Both Obama and Cameron will also be concerned about Christine Lagarde's appearance alongside "Merkozy" in Cannes. Who told the IMF chief she could join the Frankfurt Group ? The emerging economies who are biting at Lagarde's heels for greater influence certainly didn't tell her.
The crisis in the eurozone deepened on Wednesday as Italy appeared to be headed towards needing a bailout that the European Union can ill afford, desp...
The collapse of confidence in Italy's economy has created a hazardous situation for the world economy, analysts said on Wednesday, as the Berlusconi g...
Yields on Italian 10-year government bonds have hit 7%, a watershed figure that many in the markets view as an unsustainable level, despite the announ...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he will not run for office in the country's next elections after agreeing to stand down pending financia...
Silvio Berlusconi will resign as Italian prime minister once austerity measures currently making their way through parliament have been approved. W...
Silvio Berlusconi's leading political ally Umberto Bossi, leader of the conservative Northern League, has asked the prime minister to resign ahead of ...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing intense pressure to resign as he prepares for a parliamentary vote on a state financing bill, as th...
