Eurozone

Budget Battles

  • People are silhouetted as they pose with mobile devices in front of a screen projected with a Youtube logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

    European Parliament may propose Google break-up in draft resolution

    By Alexei Oreskovic and Julia Fioretti and Alastair Macdonald, Reuters

    (Reuters) - The European Parliament is preparing a non-binding resolution that proposes splitting Google Inc's search engine operations in Europe from the rest of its business as one possible option...

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (L) and EU envoy Catherine Ashton arrive for a meeting in Vienna November 20, 2014. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

    U.S., Iran discussing new proposals to break nuclear impasse: sources

    By Louis Charbonneau and Jonathan Allen, Reuters

    The sources, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the top Iranian and U.S. diplomats were preparing ideas that could be shown to both countries' capitals. No details on the ideas were...

  • Martin Blessing (R), CEO of Germany's second largest business bank, Commerzbank AG and European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi react before the start of the the European Banking Congress in the Old Opera house in Frankfurt, November 21, 2014. R

    Draghi throws ECB door open to money printing as global prospects dim

    By John O'Donnell and Eva Taylor, Reuters

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi threw the door wide open on Friday for more drastic measures to prevent the euro zone from sliding into deflation, promising to use...

  • FILE PHOTO: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker chairs a meeting of the EU executive body in Brussels, Belgium May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

    EU investment plan to take shape next week

    By Jan Strupczewski and Alastair Macdonald, Reuters

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Juncker will unveil a much anticipated 300-billion-euro ($370 billion) investment plan on Wednesday that is meant to trigger economic growth in the European Union...

  • People walk past a branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in central London August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Toby Melville

    RBS admits to data error in European stress test

    By Matt Scuffham, Reuters

    LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland admitted on Friday it submitted erroneous data for European bank stress tests in October and had in fact only just scraped through, calling into question...