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By Michele Kambas and Karolina Tagaris NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus's parliament overwhelmingly rejected a proposed levy on bank deposits as a condition for a European bailout on Tuesday, throwing euro zone efforts to rescue the latest casualty of the currency area's debt crisis into disarray. The...

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and...

AP - Seeking to restore confidence in the euro, the leaders of France and Germany jointly have called for changes to the European Union treaty so that countries using the euro would face automatic penalties if budget deficits ran too high. More...

AP - U.S. stock futures are following European markets lower Tuesday. But the losses were trimmed after a stronger than expected U.S. retail sales report. More...

AP - The euphoric rally in share prices fed by a European deal to cut Greece's debt and prevent larger countries from falling down the same hole slowed on Friday, as investors began to recognize the significant challenges that still face the continent. More...

AP - An agreement to contain the European debt crisis electrified the stock market Thursday, driving the Dow Jones Industrial average up nearly 340 points and putting the Standard & Poor's 500 index on track for its best month since 1974. More...

A large group of digital rights organizations has demanded proof from the European Commission that the retention of data in the European Union is necessary and proportionate for fighting serious crime. More...

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Sunday called for the creation of a "United States of Europe," saying the bloc needed a common government to avoid future economic crises. Schroeder, a Social Democrat who ran the country from 1998 to 2005, said in an interview with Der Spiegel that...

The European Union's computer security agency is warning that standards under development as part of HTML5 are undergoing rewrites that may neglect important security issues. More...

Europe's debt problem will get harder and more expensive to solve unless European leaders act aggressively to deal with it, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday. "The issues facing Europe won't get better, but more difficult to handle and more expensive if not addressed in a...

The European Commission has started legal action against 20 European Union member states which have failed to take measures to implement new rules protecting consumers’ data online. More...

The European Commission is examining whether additional rules are needed on personal data breach notification in the European Union. More...

Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union’s Data Protection Directive and the United State’s Patriot Act. More...

(CNN) -- Despite complaints from Europeans, Russia will keep intact its ban on vegetables from the European Union because of the outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday. The European Union has told Russia that the ban contradicts the spirit of the...

BRUSSELS – The Iberian lynx that prowls the grasslands of southern Spain. The Mediterranean monk seal swimming waters off Greece and Turkey. The Bavarian pine vole that forages in the high meadows of the Alps. These are among hundreds of European animal species — up to a quarter of the total...

Europe's energy chief warned on Wednesday of a further catastrophe at Japan's nuclear site "in the coming hours" but his spokeswoman said he had no specific or privileged information on the situation. "In the coming hours there could be further catastrophic events which could pose a threat to...

-- A Turkish doctor arrested in an investigation into an alleged human organ smuggling ring protested his innocence Wednesday. "There is no such crime. There is no organ trade," Yusuf Ercin Sonmez told reporters outside a courthouse, according to Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian news agency...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/12/qmb.portugal.fm.cnn -- The intensifying European debt crisis appeared to take a step back from the brink on Wednesday when besieged Portugal was able to sell more than €1.2bn in long-term debt at much lower than expected interest rates. European...

EU leaders chat before a summit on December 13. European leaders last night approved an amendment to European Union treaties to create a new bail-out system for debt-laden countries, but divisions over other measures to halt the eurozone crisis appeared to harden at their year-end summit. The...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/11/21/quest.ireland.bailout.cnn Europe and the International Monetary Fund began to hammer out final details of an Irish rescue package worth tens of billions Monday, after the government in Dublin admitted the country needed financial help. Ireland...