Ambrose has written one of those pieces which don't set out to tell you new facts so much as to analyse what we already know. Has Germany just killed the dream of a European superstate, he asks, and his answer is Yes. This is important enough to appear in the Telegraph's business section rather than in the main paper, where you can read about party leaders' wives. His thesis is that...
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I had always supposed that the euro would hold together, writes Martin Taylor. But when both partners in a marriage seriously question the arrangement, divorce is only a matter of time
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In an interview to be broadcast ahead of an EU summit next week, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso says expelling a country from the euro zone, as suggested by German Chancellor Merkel, would be against EU treaty rules.
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Greece raised the stakes in the row over how to stabilise the euro today when prime minister George Papandreou set European leaders a deadline of next week for unveiling rescue plans for his battered economy and threatened to turn instead to the International Monetary Fund for help. Clearly exasperated by the
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Britain is at the centre of the mephedrone menace that is sweeping Europe, the EU drugs agency warned yesterday.
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The stability of the single currency is the most important priority not simply for the German government, but for the German constitutional court
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On Tuesday 25 March Open Europe is holding an event in Brussels from 2 - 3.30pm, entitled " The AIFM Directive: Striking the right balance between protection and growth?" Speaking at the event will be: Gunnar Hökmark, MEP for Sweden (EPP) and Member of the EP's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; Othmar Karas, MEP for Austria (EPP) and Member of the EP's Committee on Economi...
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European rules need to change so that countries that repeatedly break the bloc's economic guidelines can be expelled from the euro zone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday (17 March).
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European Union governments must repay €346.5 million of financial aid from the bloc's farm budget for failing to follow EU spending rules, the European Commission said on Tuesday (16 March).
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Over a million jobs and up to €240 billion in business could be lost in the European Union over the next five years as a result of illegal downloading, according to a new study into Internet piracy.
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