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Sovereign Debt Crisis

LOOK: Thousands Rally Against European Austerity In May Day Protests

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2013 | World

By Clare Kane MADRID, May 1 (Reuters) - Workers hit by lower living standards and record high unemployment staged May Day protests a...

What Happened To France's Voice In Europe?

Reuters | Posted 04.24.2013 | World

By Luke Baker and Mark John BRUSSELS/PARIS, April 24 (Reuters) - A few hours after midnight one Sunday last month, as negotiations ove...

Italian Election Results Renew Euro Zone Crisis Fears

Reuters | Posted 04.28.2013 | World

By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - European shares tumbled on Tuesday after an Italian election stalemate threatened a rene...

Italian Election Results Have Investors Worried

Reuters | Posted 04.27.2013 | World

* Beppe Grillo's 5-Star Movement stuns Italy * Centre-left coalition wins lower house but fails to control Senate * Fin...

Woman Commits Suicide In Face Of Eviction

AP | HAROLD HECKLE | Posted 11.19.2012 | World

MADRID -- A woman in Spain jumped to her death as bailiffs approached to evict her Friday from her fourth-floor apartment for failing to pay the mortg...

Racist Attacks Increase Amid Greek Crisis

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.12.2012 | World

ATHENS, Greece -- The attack came seemingly out of nowhere. As the 28-year-old Bangladeshi man dug around trash bins one recent afternoon for scrap me...

Austerity Protests Descend Into Violence

AP | DEREK GATOPOULOS | Posted 12.18.2012 | World

ATHENS, Greece — Hundreds of youths pelted riot police with fire bombs, bottles and chunks of marble Thursday as yet another Greek anti-austerit...

To No One's Surprise, Corruption Is A Problem In Italy

AP | Posted 10.14.2012 | World

ROME -- Italy's justice minister is warning that rampant corruption by politicians' pilfering public funds is reaching unprecedented levels, just as t...

Protests Mark Merkel's First Greece Visit During Crisis

Reuters | Posted 12.08.2012 | World

By Noah Barkin and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to the heart of Europe's debt cris...

El Huffington Post Blog: How Spanish Youth Lost The Battle Against Unemployment

Posted 10.08.2012 | World

Last week, blogger Carlos M. Duarte published a post on HufPost Spain about how his daughter, who despite having a master's degree and proficiency in ...

7,000 Greek Police To Crack Down Before Merkel Visit

AP | NICHOLAS PAPHITIS | Posted 12.08.2012 | World

ATHENS, Greece — Greek police have increased security and are preparing to close down large sections of the capital Athens to contain protests a...

What Is Hollande's Plan For France?

Reuters | Posted 12.07.2012 | World

By Mark John PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Just five months after bringing Francois Hollande to power, many French voters are already desp...

Dozens Of Cities March Against Austerity

AP | HAROLD HECKLE | Posted 12.07.2012 | World

MADRID — Tens of thousands of people marched in 56 Spanish cities Sunday to protest punishing austerity cuts they say will only increase unemplo...

Inflation Is Not the Solution to the Economic Crisis

Sheldon Filger | Posted 10.20.2012 | Business
Sheldon Filger

Why would inflation, a fiscal and monetary circumstance which human beings by instinct regard as an ill omen, be seen in such positive hues by economists as renowned as Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman?

5 Reasons For Spain's Economic Fail

Posted 07.24.2012 | World

MADRID — Spain's financial crisis is a lot like peeling an onion: remove one troubled layer and you expose another. Repeated efforts since 2009 b...

Spaniards Fleeing Country In Economic Crisis

AP | Posted 09.16.2012 | World

MADRID — The number of Spaniards leaving the recession-wracked country was up 44 percent in the first six months of 2012 compared with the same ...

Greek Deputy Minister Quits Over Debt Talks

AP | Posted 09.08.2012 | World

ATHENS, Greece — A deputy labor minister resigned on Monday from Greece's new coalition government, saying it should have pressed harder to rene...

Greek Finance Minister Resigns

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 08.25.2012 | World

ATHENS, Greece — The banker who was chosen to be Greece's next finance minister resigned for health reasons Monday three days after he was rushe...

Soccer Soothes Countries In Crisis

AP | MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and DAVID RISING | Posted 06.20.2012 | World

ATHENS, Greece -- Chancellor Angela Merkel watched Germany weather the storm and emerge with flying colors, while other European countries simply flou...

Major Retailer Overcomes Europe Woes

Reuters | Posted 08.20.2012 | Business

* Q2 pretax profit 7.1 bln SEK vs consensus 6.6 bln * Gross margin unchanged at 61.7 pct vs f'cast 61.1 pct * Says took ...

Mark Gongloff

This Will Make You Care About The Crisis In Europe

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 06.12.2012 | Business

Hello, American reader. We know there are things in this world you care very deeply about: The NBA finals, the "True Blood" premiere, Apple's shiny ne...

Mark Gongloff

Big Questions Remain After Spanish Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 06.09.2012 | Business

While European soccer players were expertly kicking the ball down the field this weekend in the Euro 2012 tournament, European finance ministers were ...

D.M. Levine

Planning for Default

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 06.08.2012 | Business

Goldman Sachs is preparing for possible sovereign defaults in Europe, the company's CEO said Friday. "It's in the nature of contingency planning an...

Greece: Still Going Broke, Now With Bullwhips

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 08.06.2012 | Business

If you could rely on anything in the past couple of years, it is that Greece is always going broke. Now it turns out that Greece is going broke faster...

Spain On The Brink

Reuters | Posted 08.05.2012 | Business

* Treasury minister says risk premium shows Spain shut out * Says Spanish banks should get European capital boost ...