By the end of 2012, unemployment in Spain hit 26 per cent of the active population — 5.9m people. It’s the highest level in the EU and in Spain’s history, and the government says it will keep on rising in the coming months.
PM Mariano Rajoy has d…

On January 25, the first day of the second round of Czech presidential elections, the Prague economic daily provides a concise comparison of both candidates – former socialist PM and populist Miloš Zeman and current foreign minister and aristocrat K…

According to a poll conducted by the daily on the day after David Cameron’s speech, 51.9 per cent of Danes want to stay in the EU, even if the British opt to leave.
However, 47.2 per cent would like the government try to renegotiate the conditions of D…

In its 2014 budget, the German government is planning to cut spending by €6bn to avoid taking on any new debt. The Ministry of Defence, followed by the Ministry of Transport, will be hardest hit by the belt-tightening measures, at a time when questio…

Prime Minister Janez Janša has announced that he will not step down, in spite of the resignation, on Thursday, of Finance Minister Janez Šušteršič and Justice Minister Senko Pličanič. Both men resigned in the wake of the previous day’s decisio…

The Guardian, London – The spirit of dictators like Nicolae Ceauşescu is finding new life in the response of the European elite to the eurozone crisis, says Slovenian thinker Slavoj Žižek. The same distrust of democracy that once constrained t…

EditorialThis week we were presented with what was in many ways a condensed history of the construction of Europe played out over two days. On January 22, there were celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty between France and Ger…

La Stampa, Turin – Founded in 1472, the bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena has helped raise Siena's quality of life and governance to the top tier. The political and economic scandal that has erupted around the “MPS”, however, could mark the…

Narodna banka Srbije očekuje da će inflacija početi da pada od drugog tromesečja 2013. ako ne dođe do nepredviđenih inflatornih pritisaka, obavestila je guvernerka Jorgovanka Tabaković srpskog premijera Ivicu Dačića.