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German finance minister calls for EU elected president

Among those honouring Schaeuble on Thursday was Jean-Claude Juncker, "Schaeuble belongs to a classic group of people who think that what is good for Europe is good for their country, and what's bad for Europe is bad for their country".

Greeks head back to the ballot box in June

Greece will hold a new election in June after days of talks failed to resolve the country's political deadlock, party leaders said Tuesday.

Hollande sworn in as French president amid euro turmoil

Francois Hollande was sworn in as president of France on Tuesday with a solemn vow to find a new growth-led strategy to end the debt crisis threatening to unravel the eurozone.

Hollande faces bruising entry onto world stage

The moment France's president-elect Francois Hollande is sworn in on Tuesday, he leaves his cosy post-election no-man's land for potentially bruising encounters on the European and world stage.

Hollande in 'frank and friendly' talks with Juncker

Spanish police clear 'indignants' from Madrid's square

Spanish police cleared out Madrid's central square early on Sunday of hundreds of "indignant" activists who had spent the night as part of demonstrations to mark one year since the start of a global protest movement.

Hollande in 'frank and friendly' talks with Juncker

The head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Thursday briefed France's president-elect Francois Hollande on the Greek financial crisis, Hollande said.

Asselborn issues warning to Greece

Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has warned that the EU will not be willing to pay bail-out funds to Greece without a government supporting the previously agreed austerity measures in place.

Kofi Annan: 'Last chance' to avoid civil war in Syria

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan says his peace plan could be the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria, where a truce has failed to end 14 months of bloodshed.

Austerity is a dirty word in Europe but what next?

The day after Francois Hollande rode to power in France on a slogan of "change now" the conversation in Europe is already different: Austerity has become a dirty word.

Mr Normal takes his place at the Élysée

After winning France's presidential vote, Socialist Francois Hollande faces some far-from-ordinary challenges as the leader of the eurozone's second-largest economy, a nuclear-armed UN Security Council member.

Defeated Sarkozy says won't lead right in parliamentary poll

Defeated Sarkozy says won't lead right in parliamentary poll

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on he would not lead his right-wing UMP party into June's parliamentary polls, as his campaign spokeswoman conceded defeat in the presidential vote.

Mr Normal takes his place at the Élysée

Japan says Sayonara to nuclear power

A Japanese power firm began switching off the country's last working reactor, leaving it without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century.

France holds breath ahead of tight vote

France held its breath on Saturday on the eve of a presidential election that Socialist Francois Hollande was predicted to win.

Samsung's new smartphone debuts in London

South Korea's Samsung Electronics has unveiled a faster and larger version of its flagship smartphone as it seeks to cement its position as the world's best-selling mobile phone maker.

Luxembourg: Stronger ties with Central Asia

Luxembourg and Kazakhstan are intensifying their bilateral ties. On Thursday, Prime Ministers Jean-Claude Juncker and Karim Massimov signed four agreements.

Hollande vs Sarkozy: French candidates' programmes in a nutshell

Whichever candidate wins France's presidential election Sunday will face the same eurozone debt crisis and thus have a narrow margin of manoeuvre on the economy, whatever their promises.

Several injured in Portuguese rail crash

Several people were injured when two trains collided Wednesday at a station close to the capital Lisbon, the Portuguese rail and rescue services said.

Obama attacks Romney over foreign bank accounts including Luxembourg

US President Barack Obama Tuesday tore into Mitt Romney, branding his foe a corporate raider who outsourced American jobs overseas and piled up cash in offshore havens and a Swiss bank account as well as money held in Luxembourg.

Anti-austerity anger sweeps Europe on May Day

May Day protesters poured into streets across Europe on Tuesday, swept up in a wave of anti-austerity anger that threatens to topple leaders in Paris and Athens.

Missing from German psychiatric hospital

German police are appealing for help in find three men who escaped a secure psychiatric hospital about 100 kilometres from Luxembourg.

Report: Ikea used East German prisoners as forced labourers

Swedish furniture giant Ikea used political prisoners in East Germany as forced labourers during the 1970s and 1980s, according to a Swedish investigative news programme to air this week.

Lebanon skier hit by gunfire from Syria

One person was wounded when a group of skiers on Mount Hermon in southeast Lebanon came under machine gun fire from across the border with Syria on Monday, a security official said.

Up to 6 feared dead in Swiss plane crash

Up to six people are feared dead after a small plane crashed in western Switzerland on Saturday, police said.

27 injured in four blasts in Ukraine ahead of Euro match

At least 27 people were hurt in Ukraine's eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk Friday in four blasts that President Viktor Yanukovych called a challenge to the nation ahead of the Euro 2012 football championship.

Ukraine's jailed ex-PM goes on hunger strike

Green clouds over Moscow - pollen not aliens!

Russia's weather and emergency officials soothed fears of Moscow residents Thursday with statements that green-tinged clouds over the capital were not an alien invasion, but tree pollen.

Thousands of Norwegians gather to sing song Breivik hates

Tens of thousands of rose-waving Norwegians gathered in rain-drenched Oslo Thursday to deride mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by singing a song he hates, viewing it as Marxist indoctrination.

France threatens to pull out of borderless Europe scheme

The French government says that if the European Union doesn't agree on a tougher line to fight illegal immigration it will pull out of Schengen borderless travel zone within a year.

Pakistan PM convicted of contempt of court

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was Thursday convicted of contempt of court by the country's highest court but avoided a jail term, state television reported.

Invite mix-up leads Swede to minister's dinner

Sweden's environment minister thought she had asked the country's former agriculture minister to attend a glam dinner. But the invitation went to the "wrong" Margareta Winberg — an ordinary Swede who jumped at the chance to mingle, even participating in the group photo.

ASEAN welcomes EU suspension of Myanmar sanctions

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Wednesday welcomed the suspension of European Union sanctions against Myanmar, saying it "was the right thing to do at the right time".

Ukraine's jailed ex-PM goes on hunger strike

Ukraine's jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko has been on a hunger strike for five days to protest her treatment and demand an end to political repressions, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Luxembourg EU ministers meeting agrees to Syrian luxury goods sanctions

The European Union turned its sights on the Assad couple's high-end lifestyle Monday, at an EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg, banning the export of luxury goods as part of new sanctions to punish the regime's relentless violence.

Dutch government quits after austerity talks fail

The Dutch government, one of the most vocal critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, quit Monday after failing to agree on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.

Czech coalition falls, but government survives for now

The leaders of the three parties that form the Czech government have agreed to end their coalition, the prime minister said Sunday.

Hollande, Sarkozy heading to French vote runoff

Francois Hollande, a mild-mannered French Socialist who wants to take better care of the jobless and the poor, is heading to a presidential runoff election against tough-on-immigration Nicolas Sarkozy in a vote that could alter Europe's political and economic landscape.

Far-right's Le Pen scores record success in French vote

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen won 18.2 to 20 percent in Sunday's first-round of the French presidential election, official estimates said, the highest ever score for her anti-immigrant party.

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