Debt crisis: as it happened, February 10, 2012

10 February 2012, 3:38 pm

The Greek Government heads for a reshuffle as five cabinet members resign and cast doubt over the implementation of tough austerity measures required to secure a €130bn bailout package, while PM Lucas ...... Read More »

Greeks hit the streets, comparing latest austerity measures to dictatorship

10 February 2012, 8:19 am

Greek leaders say the country has no choice but to adopt the latest round of austerity measures, but eurozone leaders are skeptical Greece will follow through.  ... Read More »

Greece's New Austerity Plan Sparks Outrage

10 February 2012, 5:19 am

As protests rage on, the head of Greece's Laoist party said he will not vote in favor of a new package of austerity measures that is up for parliamentary vote on Sunday or Monday.... Read More »

Greeks strike against IMF/EU austerity before crucial

10 February 2012, 4:51 am

Striking Greek workers denounced a new wave austerity on Friday as a demand too far by the IMF and EU, but Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the nation it had to decide within days whether to take the pain and stay in the euro or not.... Read More »

Return police powers to Britain: 100 MPs write to Cameron demanding control is shifted away from EU

5 February 2012, 8:52 pm

Conservative MPs including Cabinet minister John Redwood, pictured, urged the Prime Minister to return control over a range of contentious crime measures to Westminster.... Read More »

Brussels takes control of taxation and spending in eurozone countries

29 January 2012, 10:44 am

The European Union is to gain dramatic powers to control tax and spending in crisis-hit eurozone countries under a deal to save the currency.... Read More »

Kosovo EU police mission called effective

25 January 2012, 11:12 am

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A European Union police mission in Kosovo has helped reduce crime in the four years since it arrived in the country, a spokesman said.... Read More »

Court rules drink name 'Viaguara' misleading to consumers

25 January 2012, 4:18 am

BRUSSELS (AFP) - A Polish drinks company was given a giant let-down on Wednesday when top European judges ruled they were cheating in trying to trademark a drink named 'Viaguara' - too close for their taste to the sex drug Viagra. Related Stories UK police arrest 97 for London Olympics fraud... Read More »

CORRECTED - Mother asks Europe to save son from Belarus execution

24 January 2012, 2:44 pm

(Corrects paragraphs 21-22 to make clear he told the court he had agreed to testify, not confess) BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Lyubov Kovalyova, a Belarussian receptionist, was listening to the radio at work in April when she heard that her son had confessed to helping plan a terrorist attack - a bomb in a ... Read More »

Spotlight Interview With Barnes Dlamini (SFTU-Swaziland)

16 January 2012, 2:49 pm

Brussels, 16 January 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Trade union activities are being repressed with ever greater ferocity in Swaziland. Repeated arbitrary arrests, intimidation and beatings are used to silence activists.... Read More »

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