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Spain agrees to end Gibraltar border delays in spat over fishing grounds 25 Jul 2013 | 07:39 pm
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has agreed to ease restrictions Spain has imposed along its border with Gibraltar and plans to work with Britain on finding a solution to the growing tensions over...
Germany’s Commerzbank sees falling profits 24 Jul 2013 | 07:19 pm
Germany’s Commerzbank saw its second-quarter profit slide as it continued to take losses on bad real estate and shipping loans — but the company’s shares jumped after it said was making progress with ...
German home-schoolers to appeal to Supreme Court 23 Jul 2013 | 07:14 pm
Attorneys for Christian parents who fled Germany in order to home school their children but have been denied U.S. asylum said they are preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and were...
German Chancellor calls for closer relations with Iran 22 Jul 2013 | 07:23 pm
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Hassan Rouhani on the start of his term as Iran’s president, calling for closer relations with Tehran. In a message to Rouhani, the German chancellor ...
Five things we learned from the Bank of England inflation report 21 Jul 2013 | 05:48 pm
1. Interest rates are going to stay low for a very long time Current predictions say the Bank will only consider raising rates in 2016, but it could be 2017 or 2018 before the economy is considered st...
Italy’s Recession Is Now Its Longest Since World War II 20 Jul 2013 | 07:04 pm
Italy’s recession has now extended into an eighth consecutive quarter, meaning it has lasted a record two years, according to economic data released Tuesday. At 0,2 percent, the economic contraction w...
Bank of England set to unveil ‘forward guidance’ 19 Jul 2013 | 06:52 pm
The new governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is set to unveil a new strategy of «forward guidance». Under the strategy, the Bank will periodically promise to keep interest rates at a particul...
Italy police swoop on Mafia near Rome and in Calabria 18 Jul 2013 | 06:49 pm
Italian police have arrested at least 50 people in a big anti-Mafia operation in the coastal region near Rome. About 500 police officers, backed by dog units, a helicopter and coastal patrol boats are...
G8’s crime rates declin 17 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
Panopticism is just one possible explanation. Others include the introduction of unleaded petrol, the legalisation of abortion, increased policing, fewer 16 to 24 year olds, improved technology and ge...
EU pledges to tackle 773% disparity in mobile call costs 16 Jul 2013 | 06:38 pm
The cost of making mobile calls in Europe varies hugely — a disparity that the European Commission wants to address with new legislation in September. See FRANCE 24’s interactive map. By FRANCE 24 (te...
