EU 'too slow' on economic reforms
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Most EU countries are failing to put in place policies aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive economy, a report says.
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Most new EU member states still lag behind the rest of Europe in terms of competitiveness, a survey says.
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Corporate executives in Europe have taken steps to streamline operations to attract investors put off by delayed overhauls in economic policy that governments have yet to enact.
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Eurozone experts are growing increasingly cautious about the outlook for growth in the single currency area in the face of the anticipated slowdown of the global economy, a new poll conducted by the European ...
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Gordon Brown has called for urgent economic reform in Europe after a Treasury report exposed other Union members to be blocking Britain from the Â£1.
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1110CET Updated 1120CET -- The incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso proposed a delay to allow time to change his proposed team of Commissioners.
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The EU's ten newest members must get their economies into shape if they are ever to join the euro, the European Central Bank and Commission warn.
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Despite an apparently imminent slowdown, economic policy and the general state of the economy have hardly made it onto the evening news of late.
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VALLETTA/ST. JULIAN'S, Malta  - The euro zone economy could slow more than previously forecast, a policymaker said on Saturday, as other EU leaders voiced worries about the weak U.S. economy and the strong euro currency.
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The embattled European Union claimed progress in charting a way out of a year-old constitutional limbo, but offered little concrete beyond extending a &amp;quot;period of reflection&amp;quot; on resolving the impasse.
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European Union (EU) leaders on Friday in a summit called for urgent action on Lisbon strategy in the wake of a gloomy review report on European economic reform process.
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The reforms to the EU's stability and growth pact will help to defuse the escalating two-year crisis which has seen France and Germany repeatedly flout its deficit rules.
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LONDON : Europe&#39;s efforts to catch up to and then outpace the US economy have been &quot;a big failure,&quot; the outgoing head of the European Union executive commission, Romano Prodi, told the Financial Times in an interview.
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EU agriculture ministers are to discuss urgent reforms to Europe's heavily subsidised sugar industry.
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The European Union effectively set itself a deadline of late 2008 to end the institutional deadlock gripping it since last year, while insisting that reforms must continue in the meantime.
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Despite some progress, trade between the 25 European Union nations needs to become easier and simpler to jump-start the EU's flagging economy, the EU's internal market chief said Thursday.
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The European Commission has delayed a  decision on whether to reform a tax on gadgets such as MP3  players that can reproduce copyright material, the European  Union executive said on Wednesday.