Lithuania is seeking to join the euro area from 2015, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup, announced here on Monday.
France has no plans to send more troops to the Central African Republic (CAR) after Bangui's officials calls for additional foreign troops to restore order and stop sectarian violence in the country, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday.
Greece formally assumed the European Union (EU)'s rotating Presidency for the first half of 2014 on Wednesday with a ceremony attended by several top European dignitaries.
It is unjustified, much less helpful, for some U.S. officials to create a China bogeyman to shake off their own bad feel about their country's disclosed spying scandal.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel voted to keep Germany a strong industrial location and to secure German jobs on Wednesday as the European Commision launched an investigation into Germany's subsidies for big electricity consumers.
A "grand coalition"under the leadership of Angela Merkel is expected to take office.
Relations between China and European countries are becoming closer in face of economic globalization, with exchange of high-level visits increasing, economic and trade cooperation broadening, and people-to-people exchanges continually making headway.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called on China and the European Union (EU) to properly position their comprehensive strategic partnership amid the process of globalization so as to forge ahead with bilateral cooperation.
Japan and the European Union (EU) reiterated their commitment to conclude a bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement and Free Trade Agreement at an early date, according to a joint press statement here on Tuesday.
A second round of negotiations aimed at removing trade barriers between the European Union and the United States in a wide range of areas was launched Monday.
A senior European Union (EU) official on Tuesday said in Washington that the U.S. side needs to tighten privacy laws to rebuild trust that's been damaged during the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping scandal, as the issue has already put Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in jeopardy.
U.S. National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander on Tuesday told lawmakers that the recent media reports about the agency's spying on European allies are "completely false."
European leaders gathered again after summer, trying to outline a new stimulating plan to enhance recovery by building a European Union (EU)-wide digital market.
New Zealand researchers have rebutted the notion that gout is a lifestyle disease linked to diet and affluence with the discovery of evidence that the country 's indigenous Maori population suffered the affliction in pre- European times.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta at the White House on Thursday, the first day the federal government reopened.
Europe's space company Astrium announced Wednesday that it has been awarded three new contracts by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the rocket launchers, Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME.
European Commission leaders on Thursday hailed the formal approval by the European Parliament (EP) of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for European banks.
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