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The leaders of the euro area have increased their telephone calls all day Friday, but failed to contain the fire in financial markets. The European stock markets recorded a tenth straight session of declines, despite employment statistics better than expected in the United States.
The pressure was at its height on Friday night [...]

(Special Envoy to Berlin) The pavement of the road shines in front of decrepit facades. Raining cats and dogs in this small village in the former East Germany. Are expected to disembark Walter Ulbricht or Erich Honecker inaugurating a model farm and a gymnasium. But it is West who won. The sequence nostalgia runs [...]

As the season results announcements in full swing in the U.S., Apple unveiled last night, after market, the figures exceeded expectations last quarter. The CEO, Steve Jobs, even spoke of "best results ever recorded." And the reaction was not long in coming: in electronic trading after the close of Wall Street, the title soared [...]

Asian stock markets found the way to the rise on Wednesday. These days were marked by a sharp decline in seats in the region due to fear of contagion of sovereign debt problems in several countries in the euro area. Yesterday, European and U.S. stock markets have limited their losses after the announcement by [...]

The draft budget of the European Union (EU) for the period 2014-2020 annoys London. "The Commission proposal is totally unrealistic. It is too large, does not match the limited budget that we announced and is incompatible with the difficult decisions taken in countries throughout Europe to make budget savings, "said a spokesman for the [...]

If the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his "confidence" in the future of the euro area and promised to continue investing in the region at the beginning of a new tour on the old continent, the mood remains tense markets Financial. While stock markets in Asia are changing declined this morning, the Cac 40devrait [...]

In Athens
It is now the strongman of the government just revamped George Papandreou: Evangelos Venizelos. Imposing, talkative and impulsive, professor of constitutional law of 54 years did not mince his words when entering his new office as Minister of Finance: "I left the Department of Defense to enter a war", has he [...]

The deputies continued Friday to review the draft budget law amendment removing the tax shield and reducing the ISF. As expected, they voted in Article 1 of the bill abolishing the wealth tax for estates of less than EUR 1.3 million and revised the scale for the highest wealth. Now between 1.3 and 3 [...]

"We resist '. That is what could be read on the sign of one of the protesters took to the streets of Athens on Saturday to protest against austerity measures additional adopted by the Greek government to clean up its public accounts. Responding to the call of the country's two main unions, GSEE (private [...]

The death toll from the entero-haemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) has been revised upwards in Germany. It is now 12 people have died because of this bacterium. Announced a review by the county while the institute for health surveillance does not recognize yet that three deaths directly attributable to the EHEC, pending analysis on other [...]