Investors have returned to the market amid reports Greece was increasingly likely to call off its referendum on the eurozone rescue package. The FT...

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou could leave office if a coalition government is formed following a confidence vote in parliament on Friday, acc...

Herman van Rompuy, the European Council president, was keen to manage expectations on Thursday morning, saying that the agreement thrashed out by euro...

European leaders have reached a three-pronged agreement to resolve the eurozone debt crisis, including a deal that will halve Greek debt. Banks we...

European leaders have reached a "three-pronged" agreement which they say is vital to resolving the region's massive debt crisis. After marathon tal...

A fist fight broke out amongst deputies in the Italian parliament during a tense debate on the country’s austerity reforms, ahead of a critical meet...

Markets are holding their breath as the leaders of the European Union and 17 eurozone member states meet on Wednesday to try to thrash out the details...

At the time of writing, the world hasn’t ended, so Harold Camping, whose second attempt at calling the date of the apocalypse put a cross on Friday ...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won a key confidence vote in parliament, sparked by questions over his handling of the economy and person...

In 2008, panicked governments and central banks injected massive amounts of money into the economy, in the form of government spending, tax concessions, ultra low interest rates and "non-conventional" monetary strategies - code for printing money.

Markets hit 15-month lows on Monday, the first day of trading in the fourth quarter of 2011, on fears that a near-inevitable Greek default may come so...

Greece has missed a key condition of its bailout package, rattling financial markets and adding to fears that the country will not receive essential a...

DATA from underground vaults in Europe is baffling economists. Thousands of experiments have led to a startling new discovery. Money, they now believe...