Under the German-engineered strategy to escape the euro crisis, struggling southern European members must continue to cut public spending, lower wages and grind down prices until they're competitive again.

Would the new helicopter drop money be kept in periphery banks and lent out to stimulate business investment? Or does the new money flee say Portugal because Portuguese banks are not safe enough, Portuguese loans are not lucrative and safe enough, ...

The Bundesbank's lending under the system, a key indicator of underling strains in the euro system, rose to 608 billion euros from 589 billion, although this was still well below the peak of 751 billion euros in August last year before the ECB unveiled ...

The dollar traded near the strongest in more than six weeks against the euro amid bets the Federal Reserve will slow asset purchases on signs the world's biggest economy is accelerating.

A majority of entrepreneurs Zeman has met see membership in the euro area as beneficial for their businesses and the country that joined the European Union in 2004 should be technically ready to adopt the common currency in five years, he said at a ...

�An upward valuation of the D-mark and an accompanying devaluation of the euro would result in a massive debt forgiveness of all other euro-countries - with the costs of that picked up by Germany. This could lead to a currency war and the end of ...

LONDON - France played a decisive role in shaping not only the euro system but the entire European project. This history has predisposed French leaders to the goal of preserving the euro at all costs. Those costs, as we explained in Part 1 of this ...

"The risk that euro will break apart or that individual members are headed for bankruptcy was substantially higher a year ago," he said.

All European indices are trading up on Asian floors, after the release of Friday's US Consumer Report boosted market confidence The Euro Stoxx has climbed 0.40 percent to 2817.99, France's CAC 40 gained 0.56 percent to 4001.27 and Germany's DAX is ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark ...