Cyprus: will not quit the euro
The president of Cyprus says his island nation will not abandon the European single currency. Nicos Anastasiades said Friday at
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Hungary’s PM Orban again sets sights on utilities firms, ‘powerful friends’
The government needs the people to help defeat foreign-owned utilities firms that want to scotch a plan to lower bills,
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Global credit card fraud network bust, with arrests in Romania
Forty-four members of a global credit card fraud network have been arrested in a joint operation co-ordinated by the Romanian
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Global economy improving but Europe lags behind, OECD says
Global economic activity is picking up, but the continuing crisis in the euro area is delaying a meaningful recovery, the
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Cyprus crisis burns Russian investors
For years, construction companies in Cyprus lured Russians to invest in the Mediterranean island. Over the last decade, 40,000 Russians
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Bulgaria will not initiate procedure for EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, caretaker PM Raykov says
Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov has reiterated that his country will not initiate the procedure for the European Union
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Bulgaria to open honorary consulate in Stuttgart
Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet on March 28 2013 approved a decision to open an honorary consulate headquartered in Stuttgart with a
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Capital controls in Cyprus necessary now but should be lifted as soon as possible, EC says
The European Commission sees the capital controls imposed in Cyprus as necessary for now under the circumstances but says that
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Cyprus prepares to reopen banks in aftermath of bailout
Banks across Cyprus are expected to be filled with long lines of anxious customers when they reopen Thursday after a
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