Jose Manuel Barroso

German Chancellor Rejects EU Eurobond Proposal

AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: European Council, Video, Eurozone, European Commission, Debt Crisis, Euro Bonds, Jose Manuel Barroso, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Herman Van Rompuy, "Stability Bonds", Jean-Claude Juncker, Business News

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected a new push by the European Commission for bonds issued jointly by the 17 euro nations, saying ...

Read Whole Story

EU Debt Crisis Is 'Systemic,' According To Official's Warning

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ireland Bailout, Eurozone, Greece, Jose Manuel Barroso, Spain Debt, Portugal Debt Crisis, European Union, Spain, EU Debt Crisis, Eu, Portugal, EU Summitt, Business News

BRUSSELS/BERLIN (By Jan Strupczewski and Erik Kirschbaum): European Union leaders will be warned on Thursday that a rolling debt crisis poses a syste...

Read Whole Story

EU Denies Pushing Portugal Towards A Bailout

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ireland Bailout, Jose Manuel Barroso, Spain Debt, Angela Merkel, Portugal Bailout, EU Debt Crisis, Eu, Wolfgang Schaeuble, European Central Bank, Klaus Regling, Nicolas Sarkozy, Business News

BERLIN/LISBON: European officials denied "absolutely false" reports Portugal was under pressure to seek a bailout and Spain ruled out on Friday needin...

Read Whole Story

EU Condemns 'Barbaric' Plan To Stone Woman, Iran Scoffs At Concerns

AP | BRIAN MURPHY and NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Iran Stoning, Ramin Mehmanparast, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Eu, Jose Manuel Barroso, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top Europea...

Read Whole Story

Germany Holding Up EU Greece Bailout

AP | ROBERT WIELAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jose Manuel Barroso, Greece Bailout, Imf, International Monetary Fund, European Union, Germany Greece Bailout, Greek Bailout, Greek Debt Crisis, Eu, Business News

BRUSSELS — The European Commission urged Germany and other eurozone governments Friday to put up a package of government-to-government loans to ...

Read Whole Story

Tragedy in Greece

Bill Baker | Posted 02.11.2010

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Debt Crisis, Jose Manuel Barroso, Greece, Fiat Currency, World News
Bill Baker

What was once a cradle of civilization now accounts for only 2.6% of European Union output, and the rest of the continent simply can't let its financial system implode just yet.

Read Post

EU's Barroso to G-20: Financial Markets Must Not Return to "Bad Old Ways"

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Commission, Yukio Hatoyama, Jose Manuel Barroso, World News
Nathan Gardels

Barroso believes that, after the crash caused by the excesses of unregulated financial markets, globalization requires global governance. Here is what he had to say in advance of the G-20 meeting.

Read Post

US-Style Capitalism Criticized, Europeans Take Comfort In Social-Market Economy

Wall Street Journal | JOELLEN PERRY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, European Central Bank, Davos, Jose Manuel Barroso, Economic Crisis, United States, European Markets, World Economic Forum, Global Economic Crisis, Business News

A day after Chinese and Russian leaders blamed a free-wheeling U.S. financial system as the source of the global economic crisis, Europeans here are t...

Read Whole Story