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Middle-class family struggles in Spain’s crisis
16 July 2012 7:16 AM ISTBefore the Spanish economic crisis hit, Mercedes Gonzalez and her family lived comfortably, she working in a shoe shop and her husband and second son...
Facing the global heat
12 July 2012 7:01 AM ISTGlobal central bankers had colluded last week to reset monetary policy to meet the threat of recession and deflation. European Central Bank had cut...
Spain announces 65 bn euro austerity package
12 July 2012 6:13 AM ISTSpain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday announced a 65 billion euro ($80 billion) austerity package to avert financial collapse as angry...
Spain borrowing rate hits bailout danger zone
10 July 2012 7:02 AM ISTSpain's borrowing costs rose to dangerously high levels on Monday as finance ministers of the 17 countries that use the euro began to gather in...
Greek PM begins talks with EU-IMF auditors
6 July 2012 6:49 AM ISTNew Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras began talks with EU-IMF auditors on Thursday, hoping to renegotiate Greece's second bailout as the country's...
EU to control individual nations
27 Jun 2012 3:54 PM ISTWith the European Union facing its biggest crisis in 60 years, Brussels has proposed taking 'a big leap forward' to save the troubled bloc by setting...
Bailout fund would calm, not heal: EU
21 Jun 2012 6:01 AM ISTThe European Commission [EU] on Wednesday dubbed an idea to use eurozone rescue funding to lower high borrowing costs for Spain and Italy via a bond...
India may not have to give eurozone $10bn
21 Jun 2012 5:59 AM ISTIndia may not be called upon to inject $10 billion [Rs 55,000 crore] into the IMF bailout fund to help the debt-wracked eurozone tide over its...
India helps build eurozone firewall
20 Jun 2012 7:18 AM ISTIndia has announced a USD 10 billion contribution to the International Monetary Fund’s additional USD 430 billion financial firewall to help the...
Spain bailout fears mount in euro storm
20 Jun 2012 6:07 AM ISTFears of a full-scale bailout for Spain mounted on Tuesday as its borrowing costs spiked to danger levels on concern over the nation’s stricken banks...
Eurozone a worry for India: Montek
20 Jun 2012 5:20 AM ISTIndia's economic woes have not gone out of hand in the wake of the slip in the GDP growth – the lowest in nearly 9 years – but there could be trouble...
Samaras to launch coalition talks
19 Jun 2012 8:43 AM ISTGreek conservative leader Antonis Samaras will launch coalition talks on Monday after coming first in national elections that follow weeks of...