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FT.com - World, Europe
  • Gas stand-off raises demand for change
    Freezing weather across Europe, with some countries suffering their coldest temperatures for decades, heightened fears of gas shortages

  • Billionaire Merckle commits suicide
    Adolf Merckle, one of Germany's wealthiest men, committed suicide after weeks of talks with creditors designed to save his businesses from being consumed by disastrous investments and the global financial crisis

  • Eurozone inflation tumbles
    Eurozone inflation dropped to its lowest level in more than two years as economic activity crumbled at the end of last year

  • Iceland drops legal threat over bank
    Reykjavik concedes that a High Court challenge to the freezing order made against Landsbanki stands scant success but says it would back a separate legal challenge brought against London related to Kaupthing

  • Settle the Ukraine gas dispute
    Stronger EU co-ordination would send a powerful signal that it means what it says when it claims to represent all its members

  • FT map
    Freezing weather across Europe, with some countries suffering their coldest temperatures for decades, heightened fears of gas shortages

  • The battle of the oligarchs behind the gas dispute
    Ukraine and Russia tolerate, even encourage, use of the upper political echelons as instruments in business disputes , write Jérôme Guillet and John Evans

  • Twin crises set early test for Czech leadership
    Spare a thought for the poor old Czech Republic, the first country that was part of the Warsaw Pact to assume the six-month presidency of the EU, writes Quentin Peel

  • Belarus on track to receive $2.5bn IMF loan
    The authoritarian state which has experienced a sharp decline in exports would be the fifth former communist country to obtain IMF support in recent months amid the global economic crisis

  • A tale of two housing market bubbles
    The euro has had less effect than often believed on both Spain and the UK, whose economies are now seeing large current account deficits and record levels of private sector debt

  • EU intensifies efforts to solve energy strife
    A delegation led by Martin Riman, the Czech Republic's industry minister, flew to Kiev for talks with Ukrainian officials, while another EU team of experts was due to confer with executives of Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly

  • Germany prepares new stimulus boost
    The German government's second fiscal stimulus could total ?50bn, making it far more ambitious than expected just a week ago, senior officials suggested if leaders of chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition can hammer out agreement on the package

  • Spanish and Italian inflation tumbles
    Figures from Spain and Italy show inflation is receding in two of the eurozone's largest economies, raising expactations that interest rates will be cut from the current 2.5%

  • Gunmen wound police officer in Athens
    Unidentified gunmen armed with grenades and a Kalashnikov seriously wounded a police officer in central Athens, a police spokesman said, in an attack that appeared to be linked to the police shooting of a teenage boy on December 6

  • UK settles for modest gains in Helmand
    "Good enough" have become the watchwords of the British effort to tame Afghanistan's largest and most unruly province. The term comes up repeatedly in conversation...





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