March 27, 2009
Eastern Europe's exchange rate regimes and currency volatility are a root cause of the region's liquidity and credit crisis. But with all of Eastern Europe legally ...
February 2, 2009
The European Central Bank is drawing up guidelines regarding 'bad banks'—financial vehicles that would ring-fence risky assets held by European banks. The ...
October 22, 2008
In a speech before the European Parliament on Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that European countries establish their own sovereign wealth funds to...
September 29, 2008
This is an updated version of a story that first ran on Sept. 29. In a stunning series of moves engineered over the weekend and announced Sept. 29, six European ...
July 21, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a long-time critic of the European Central Bank's monetary policy, is set to push for a change in the way the Frankfurt-based body is...
June 13, 2008
It may soon be time to cue the euro-skeptic chorus—the minority of economists and businesspeople who believe the European common currency will eventually fail ...
September 24, 2007
European Central Bank (ECB) chief Jean-Claude Trichet has said that France's public finances are in "very great difficulty." "In 2007, according to statistics from the...
August 31, 2006
Later retirement and longer working hours rather than a boost in economic immigration, could prove essential for the eurozone to avert a plunge in economic growth due ...
July 11, 2006
European companies are increasingly concerned that the US, which is allegedly spying on EU cross-border bank transfers as part of its fight against terror, is also ...