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Hollande-Merkel meeting leaves debate on growth raging
Politicians and analysts have been giving their reactions to yesterday’s first meeting between Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande in Berlin.
Franco-German differences over the eurozone crisis were put aside as the two leaders stressed...
French presidential election: Sarkozy up one point in polls
A new poll suggests President Nicolas Sarkozy could be closing the gap in France’s presidential race, with six days to go.
Pollsters IPSOS say Sarkozy would take 47 percent of the second-round ballot – a rise of one point – while Socialist...
Mother confesses to having killed her baby
In Sint-Amands, in Antwerp province, the body of a baby of three months was been found in a dustcart yesterday. The body was discovered by policemen who had started a search after the infant had been reported missing. The mother of the baby...
Sarkozy plays the immigration card in election campaign
President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to pull France out of the European Union’s visa-free Schengen zone unless the bloc beefs up the EU’s borders.
Sarkozy raised the immigration issue at a campaign rally as polls show he faces a tough...
Belgian bus crash kills 28 people including children
A deadly bus crash in Switzerland has killed 28 people, 22 of them children. The bus was carrying 52 Belgian nationals home after a skiing holiday.
Twenty-four more children aboard the bus, all thought to be aged around 12 years old, were...
Europe slows down as big freeze takes hold
The first snowfall in over 20 years in Italy’s capital has left the city eerily quiet. Iconic tourist attractions the Colosseum and Roman Forum have been closed.
Around forty centimetres of snowfall on the outskirts of Rome and only five...
General strike in Belgium as EU leaders arrive in Brussels
Coinciding with the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium’s first general strike in almost 20 years has brought much of the country to a standstill.
Production at car manufacturers Audi and Volvo has stopped as workers protest austerity plans...
German economic policy helped trigger eurozone crisis, report says
The International Labour Office (ILO) argued in its annual report Tuesday that the German growth model is one of the main reasons behind the eurozone crisis, in a provocative statement that may have some truth.
The International Labour Office...
Italy ship captain “wasted precious hour”
The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia lost “a precious hour” in evacuating the giant cruise ship when it ran aground and capsized on January 13, possibly costing dozens of lives, a senior Italian maritime security official said on...
Merkel tells Davos that Europe must reform
Having flown in by helicopter, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a down to earth message at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
In the opening speech of the annual meeting of decision makers, she warned that Europe needs structural...