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Van Rompuy: 'In our intertwined economies, reforms must be coordinated'

EU President's secret bid for economic power

The new President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, is using the financial crisis sweeping the eurozone to launch an audacious grab for power over national budgets, leaked documents reveal.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel's plans to introduce sweeping tax cuts are likely to be scaled back in order to meet the increased welfare payments

Merkel handed massive bill as court strikes down benefits system

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

German welfare system fails to ensure a 'dignified minimum income', court rules

British soldiers quizzed over resort bar brawl

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Six British soldiers were being questioned by police today after reports of a brawl in a Lanzarote bar.

Schoolgirl falls into 'swallow hole'

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

A schoolgirl escaped serious injury when she tumbled into a deep 'swallow hole' that opened up near her home in Ireland.

Rescuers search for bodies after an avalanche on Gran Sasso

Jail threat to skiers who go too far off-piste

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Italy expected to rush through legislation after deadly weekend on slopes leaves eight dead.

Yulia Tymoshenko has alleged voting fraud

Yanukovych claims election 'fair'

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Supporters of the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych danced in the snow in Kiev yesterday, celebrating the victory of their candidate in the Ukrainian presidential election, as international monitors praised the vote as free and fair.

Briton dies in Tenerife 'burglary'

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

A British man has died in Tenerife, the Foreign Office said today, in what may have been a bungled robbery.

Pensioners 'kidnapped adviser'

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

berlin Four elderly Germans have gone on trial charged with kidnapping their financial adviser and imprisoning him in a bid to recover €2.5m (£2.2m) in lost savings.

Old foe set to crush Orange revolution

Monday, 8 February 2010

Ukrainian Prime Minister cries foul and threatens to challenge election result

Zapatero loses lead in Spanish opinion poll

Monday, 8 February 2010

The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has fallen behind the opposition for the first time since he came to power in 2004, according to a poll published by El Mundo newspaper.

Viktor Yanukovych supporters in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, on Friday

Ukraine goes to polls after vitriolic campaign

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Nationalist heroine or Russian favourite? Five years on from the Orange Revolution, the former Soviet state must choose – and it's set to be close

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Hamish McRae: Rescue Greece and we help ourselves

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Andrew Grice: Brown's insurance against defeat

PM's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism

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Mark Steel: They believed what suited them, and ignored what didn't

Iraq evidence was collected only to back a decision already made

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