European Union finance ministers vowed on Friday to make sure the region's banks have restructuring plans ready in case they flunk a key review of their finances.   The European Central...

European Union officials have cautioned Spain and Italy that their budget plans risk breaching EU rules aimed at keeping deficits and debt under control.   For the first time, the EU's...

The 17-country eurozone has just emerged from recession — yet already its recovery is faltering.   Official figures on Thursday showed the currency union's economy grew just 0.1...

Greece's recession eased in the third quarter while the unemployment rate stood at 27.3 percent in August, unchanged from the previous month, official data showed Thursday. The government...

The European Commission yesterday published the Third Alert Mechanism Report on macroeconomic imbalances in EU states.   This is what the report has to say about Malta:   In April...

33% of fifth form students do not make it past the SEC exams either because they are not academically inclined or they are just not interested in pursuing their education further. This is a worrying...

Following the interest rate cut announced recently by the European Central Bank, and in the context of the prevailing interest rate scenario, Bank of Valletta is announcing a revision of its interest...

They set out to build the tallest skyscraper in the world — a giant that would rise a symbolic 1,776 feet from the ashes of ground zero.   Those aspirations of global supremacy fell by...

China's leaders Tuesday promised a bigger role for the free market in the country's state-dominated economy as they try to overhaul a worn-out growth model.   In a brief statement...

Five years after a global financial crisis erupted, the world's biggest economies still need to be propped up.   They're growing and hiring a little faster and creating more jobs,...