Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Annika Breidthardt and Jan Strupczewski
BRUSSELS: Euro zone finance ministers sealed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout for Greece on Tuesday to avert a chaotic default in March after persuading private bondholders to take greater losses and Athens to commit to deep ...

Thursday, November 10, 2011
Luke Baker and Annika Breidthardt
BRUSSELS: Trust in the European Union’s ability to tackle the debt crisis is so low that its leaders are now relying on the IMF and European Central Bank to convince financial markets the rapidly deteriorating problems can be ...

Sunday, October 23, 2011
Annika Breidthardt and Daniel Flynn
BRUSSELS: Private holders of Greek debt may need to accept losses of up to 60 percent on their investments if Greece’s debt mountain is to be made more sustainable in the long-term, a downbeat analysis by the EU and IMF showed on ...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Annika Breidthardt
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition declared on Monday it would shut all German’s nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy reversal drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The coalition, sensitive to ...