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Support for EU Crumbles — Pew

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 6:26 am

If the citizens of many European countries could vote for whether the European Union should remain as the region's central alliance, it might disappear. The data from Pew shows how ...
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Europe Adopts Seven-year Austerity Budget

Posted: February 8, 2013 at 12:04 pm

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron prevailed in his determination to reduce the European Union’s (EU) seven-year project budget, the first time in the 27-member group’s history that the project budget ...
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EU Demands $12 Billion in Penalties for U.S. Subsidies to Boeing

Posted: September 27, 2012 at 9:13 am

In a long-running dispute over subsidies paid to aircraft makers, the European Union (EU) today sought permission from the World Trade Organization (WTO) to impose $12 billion in tariffs on ...
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EU Industrial Production Dives Again

Posted: June 13, 2012 at 7:54 am

The European Union’s statistical agency, Eurostat, has released its report for April’s EU industrial production. Among the 17 members of the Eurozone, production fell -0.8% compared with March production, and ...
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EU Threatens to Withhold Payment to Greece

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 12:58 pm

Some Eurozone officials are reported to be considering delaying tomorrow’s scheduled €5.2 billion payment to Greece that is part of the €130 billion bailout package sealed by the EU, the ...
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Finland Holds Europe Hostage

Posted: August 26, 2011 at 6:26 am

Finland may destroy a Greek bailout deal, which demonstrates how one of the smallest nations in Europe can hold the region's financial health hostage. This opens the question once again ...
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EU Youth Unemployment Tops 20%

Posted: August 2, 2011 at 6:27 am

The economy in the EU region will not get better for years because it can't. Eurostat reports that unemployment in June among people under 25 was 20.3% in the euro-area. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/30/2011) Greek Bailout, VW M&A

Posted: May 30, 2011 at 8:19 am

Updated throughout the day The EU is at work on a second bailout of Greece (Reuters) VW may make a formal offer for MAN (Reuters) Hedge fund manager David Einhorn ...
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A Radical Restructuring To Salvage The EU

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 6:33 am

A US-style stimulus may be all that is between defaults of the sovereign debt of Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. It is a plan which is extremely unlikely to be undertaken, ...
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Can Sovereign Restructuring Hold The Line At Greece?

Posted: May 9, 2011 at 5:42 am

The EU will not be able to hold the restructuring line at Greece. Greece was always expected to be the problem child among the EU nations that needed bailouts or ...
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Europe’s Default Contagion

Posted: April 18, 2011 at 4:54 am

The fear of a contagion among EU nations which need or want bailouts has changed over the past few days to a concern about how one default could trigger many ...
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OECD: Punish EU’s Weak Economies

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 6:16 am

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development issued its Euro Area Economic Report. Some of its recommendations were harsh, particularly about punishing financially weak EU nations that cannot balance their budgets. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/18/2010) Blackberry Sales

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 8:49 am

Updated throughout the day. Ireland's banks will get loans from the IMF and EU. (Reuters) Glencore may have an IPO next years (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has sold ...
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Merkel’s Germany Expects Neighbors To Knuckle Under

Posted: October 28, 2010 at 5:18 am

The balance of power in Europe is simple. Germany is the largest nation by GDP. It is also the healthiest economy in the region, driven by intelligent industrial and labor ...
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Faltering Banks Strain Ireland’s Budget To Breaking Point, Bailout Next

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 5:39 am

Ireland announced that its budget deficit will rise to 32% of GDP, a number which is nearly unimaginable. It would be the equivalent to a $5 trillion annual deficit in ...
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