* Germany wants big leap forward in euro integration * Spanish PM backs central budget authority for bloc * EU summit co...

* Economic advisory group fingers boards, execs, shareholders * Regulators warned against interfering in corporate strategy ...

FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank cut its main interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent on Thursday as the euro zone's worsening debt ...

LONDON (Huw Jones) - Banks in the European Union could face fines of up to 10 percent of turnover if they fail to comply with tougher capital and ...

(Reuters) - Banks that barely passed the European financial stress tests must swiftly reinforce their capital, ECB Governing Council member Erkki ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's banking regulator says eight of 90 banks flunked stress tests that project how they would fare in another recessi...

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has convened an emergency meeting of top EU officials for Monday morning to discuss efforts to assemb...

FRANKFURT (Sakari Suoninen) - The European Central Bank is in "strong vigilance" mode over inflation pressures, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet ...

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank until October, last week floated two proposals aimed at dealing with Greece and related eu...

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank until October, last week floated two proposals aimed at dealing with Greece and related eu...

FRANKFURT (Sakari Suoninen) - The European Central Bank is likely to signal a July interest rate rise on Thursday while continuing to provide bank...

The European Central Bank is acting as if it can dictate terms to Greece, but Greece is a sovereign country. As U.S. banks found out, when someone owes you money and they can't pay it back, you are in as much trouble -- sometimes more -- as they are.

LONDON (Huw Jones) - Filling a trio of top regulatory jobs will be crucial for maintaining momentum in global reforms with the chances of emerging...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet is saying Europe faces continuing inflation risks despite the economic diffi...

By Paul Carrel, Mark Felsenthal, Pedro da Costa, David Milliken and Alan Wheatley FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON - On a warm, Lisbon day last May, Jean-Clau...

ST. CLOUD, Minnesota (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Bank should continue to flood the economy with cheap money to fight high unemployment, but poli...

(Reuters) - European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warned on Sunday against raising wages in the euro zone as inflationary pressures he...

How was the international reaction to the Fed's massive quantitative easing plan? Decidedly not good. The Fed's program, in which it will buy up to ...

BERLIN — The President of the European Central Bank is quoted as saying that he still sees Europe's economy in its deepest crisis since World Wa...

Tough as it may be to accept, we are all Greeks now. Better to come to terms with this uncomfortable truth than to live in a state of denial.

LONDON — As Europe works to douse its government debt crisis the flames just keep spreading, with the euro and U.S. stocks sinking Thursday alon...

BERLIN (BY JUERGEN BAETZ, Associated Press) - Europe's debt crisis flared again Wednesday as Spain saw its credit rating lowered, just as Germany soug...

The recent crisis was a failure of risk management -- a diagnosis widely shared among the members of the IIF. But we are also starting the next crisis: the public finance crisis in Europe, the United States and Japan.