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06/24/11 European Union leaders vowed to stave off a Greek default as long as Prime Minister George Papandreou pushes through a package of budget cuts next week
06/24/11 June 24, 2011: Greece continues to teeter on the edge of debt default. There is a real possibility that Greece could leave the euro-zone (euro currency area) but still remain a member of the European Union. Great Britain is a member of the EU and still uses the pound.
06/23/11 European Union leaders pledged to stabilize the euro-area economy, vowing to stave off a Greek default as long as Prime Minister George Papandreou pushes through a package of budget cuts next week.
06/23/11 U.S. stocks and the euro pared losses following a report that Greece had reached an agreement with the European Union and International Monetary Fund regarding an austerity plan that would help it win more financial aid. Treasury yields rose from their lows of the day.
06/23/11 By Kevin Heim - Hunger and malnutrition kill more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. According to the United Nations, one in seven people in the world suffers from hunger, which is more than the combined populations of the United States, Canada and the European Union.
06/22/11 STEVEN RATTNER: We're going to start on time, as always at the council. We're all here, as you know, to hear from Olli Rehn, the European Union commissioner for economic and monetary affairs. He's going to speak about Debt, Governance and Growth: A Eurozone Perspective.
06/21/11 THE Eastern Cape ostrich industry is reeling from a recent European Union (EU) ban on ostrich meat and live birds from South Africa following an avian flu outbreak in the Klein Karoo area.
06/20/11 Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, said Friday she is backing away from conditions her finance minister insisted on to help Greece with more international aid. European leaders are struggling with the question of whether Greece should be entitled to the next tranche in the $155 billion rescue package created a year ago by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. In addition ...
06/15/11 Amid widespread speculation that Greece will need a second European Union-sanctioned bailout, Standard and Poor's downgraded Greece's credit rating (CNN) June 13 from B to triple-C, just two notches above default.
06/15/11 New regulations, improved surveillance and disease prevention strategies, particularly pertaining to produce, will likely emerge in the European Union and throughout the world following the recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany, said Professor Patrick Wall, the former chair of the European Food Safety Authority said at a press briefing Tuesday, at the 2011 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT ...
06/10/11 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday Moscow will be ready to resume vegetable imports from the European Union once it receives documents certifying their safety.
06/10/11 As she prepares to finish her three-year posting, our correspondent Paola Totaro reflects on the work and meaning of the European Union.
06/10/11 THE late, great historian Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, described the European Union as an ''utterly original animal'': territorially defined, governed by laws that span international borders but with citizens that can't vote in each other's national elections, geographically vast and yet relatively unimportant in the day-to-day life of European citizens themselves.
06/10/11 NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) - Russia and European Union leaders held talks Friday on Moscow's blanket ban on European vegetables, energy projects and prospects for visa-free travel.
06/08/11 Facebook will be probed by European Union data-protection regulators over a feature that suggests people's names to tag in pictures without their permission
06/08/11 Leaders of the European Union and Russia are meeting Thursday and Friday in Nizhny Novgorod for yet another summit. President Dmitry Medvedev already meets his two EU counterparts, European Council President Herman van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso , twice a year at EU-Russia summits, as well as at numerous other international meetings such as the Group of Eight ...
06/04/11 In Greece, government debt is forecast to reach about 170pc of GDP. The cheapest debt Greece can acquire comes through the European Union, and will cost some 5 to 6pc.
06/02/11 Amman - President of the University of Jordan University of Jordan ( UJ UJ ) Adel Tweisi on Wednesday met with European Union's (EU) Human Resource Expert and Tempus Program's Coordinator in Jordan, Ahmad Abu-El-Haija, and discussed the possibility of conducting a field study in the program's 28 regional countries.
05/30/11 Serbian President Boris Tadic said it's time the European Union did its part by boosting his nation's efforts to join the bloc, arguing the arrest of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic proves it is serious about rejoining the international fold.
05/27/11 BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - European bank shares rose on Friday on hopes that new international capital rules for lenders would be applied with a lighter touch in the European Union as Germany and France ...
05/27/11 BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - European bank shares rose on Friday on hopes that new international capital rules for lenders would be applied with a lighter touch in the European Union as Germany and France ... | 
