Top Eurogroup officials said on Monday that the Eurogroup financial ministers are determined to push forward the work on reducing high tax burden on labor and reaffirms that it will be a clear policy priority.
The U.S. dollar pared gains and weakened against most major currencies Monday as investors are seeking more clues of about when the Fed will begin to hike interest rates.
U.S. stocks pulled back on Monday, as investors took a breather after the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 set record highs last week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov here on Monday said the South Stream gas pipeline should be built as scheduled, and urged the European Commission to implement a reasonable approach.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on Monday to decide who chairs the various parliamentary committees in Brussels. But after a tense plenary session last week in Strasbourg a further row is set to erupt over the chairmanship of the 20 specialized standing committees that help shape EU legislation.
The inflow of remittances by millions of non-resident Bangladeshis in the 2013-14 fiscal year concluded in June reached 14.23 billion U.S. dollars, an official said Sunday.
Ireland’s economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), grew strongly by 2.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, according to official figures on Thursday.
The Central Bank of Cyprus on Wednesday set a three-day deadline to Bank of Cyprus, the only bank to have been recapitalized by impairing its clients deposits, to take action on a further capital increase.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday closed at the highest level since April 14 on tensions in Ukraine and Iraq.
A Chinese technology company in Shanghai is suing Apple Inc. and another local company for infringement of its trademark and unfair competition, a local court said on Monday.