German GDP shrank by 0.5 per cent in the 2012 final quarter, the worst fall since the 2009 recession. “Germany is already paying the European crisis bill” says the daily, summarising the feeling in Spain, adding PM Mariano Rajoy’s reaction to the…

Business leaders are pressuring the government to reject the single European patent, arguing that “solutions provided by the single patent scheme favour highly technologically developed countries”. Meanwhile for Poland, which has just started buil…

In spite of the crisis, the latest figures from the German Federal Office of Statistics indicate that Germany’s federal, state and local governments completed 2012 with a budget surplus. Notwithstanding the €10bn euros of additional spending to co…

The Belgian government has given a green light to the deployment of logistics support for French forces in Mali between now and March 1st. The country is sending 75 men, two C-130 transport aircraft and two helicopter ambulances. The Di Rupo government…

A sharp slowdown in exports has again forced the Bank of Portugal to review its forecasts for 2013. The GDP is expected to contract by 1.9 per cent while the public deficit may rise by 0.4 per cent to around 4.9 per cent instead of the 4.5 per cent lev…

Joseph Daul, the chairman of the right-of-centre European People’s Party in the European Parliament, has made clear that the party’s candidate for February’s Italian general election is incumbent Prime Minister Mario Monti and not the People of F…

Veidas, Vilnius – Hotels, shops and spas are all profiting from wealthy clients but also from the middle classes coming from the other side of the Belarus border. See more.

Delo, Ljubljana – The divorce between the political class and the Slovenian population is expanding at the same rate as the revelations about corruption. Now that the head of government himself has been caught up in the scandals, Slovenian societ…

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich – France's war in Mali is a fight for all of Europe that France is fighting alone, writes the Brussels correspondent of the SZ. Brushing Paris off with a few aircraft isn't just shirking on the part of its E…