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  • Monti, Hollande, Merkel, Cameron in videoconference Thursday: Italy government source

  • Newly-elected French President Hollande is seen at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris where he attends a ceremony to mark the abolition of slaveryROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime minister Mario Monti, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold a video conference on Thursday ahead of this weekend's G-8, an Italian government source said on Wednesday. The source said the conversation would give the four European leaders a chance to prepare for this weekend's summit at Camp David and well as to discuss European economic issues. (Reporting By Philip Pullella)



  • Hollande to be sworn in as new French president

  • Newly-elected French President Hollande is seen at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris where he attends a ceremony to mark the abolition of slaveryPARIS (Reuters) - Francois Hollande will be sworn in as France's first Socialist president in 17 years in a hurried ceremony on Tuesday before a dash to Berlin to challenge German Chancellor Angela Merkel's focus on austerity policies. Hollande, whose election comes as the euro zone is teetering back into crisis with fears about Greece's future in the single currency, will give his first presidential news conference in Berlin in the evening, flanked by the centre-right Merkel. ...



  • Similarities may push Merkel, Hollande together

  • Newly-elected French President Hollande is seen at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris where he attends a ceremony to mark the abolition of slaveryBERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - Five years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy flew straight to Berlin after his inauguration and shocked his hosts with some blunt talk on planemaker Airbus, one of the most sensitive of Franco-German issues. That first visit set the tone for the months that followed. German officials looked on in horror as the new French president reneged on budget pledges, announced plans for nuclear cooperation with Libya and claimed credit for influencing decisions by the European Central Bank. ...



  • President Obama stops in Seattle before George Clooney visit

  • President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser brunch at the Lake Washington waterfront home of Ann and Bruce Blume, in the Washington Park neighborhood of Seattle, one of the president's two scheduled stops in Seattle. The brunch, at a price tag of about $18,000 a person, drew about 75 people, according Cynthia Stroum, who organized the event. Stroum, a former ambassador to Luxembourg appointed by President Obama, was one of the President’s largest fund-raisers for the first campaign. After...
  • UK companies cut secret tax deals

  • Major UK-based firms cut secret deals with authorities in Luxembourg to avoid paying millions in corporate tax in Britain, a BBC Panorama investigation finds.
  • Eurogroup's Juncker: Paris cannot renegotiate fiscal pact

  • BERLIN (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers, said on Monday he had made it clear to French president-elect Francois Hollande that he could not renegotiate the European Union's fiscal pact. Juncker, who is prime minister of Luxembourg, told broadcaster ZDF that Hollande had rung him and he had told the president-elect that some things were unacceptable. "What isn't okay is completely reopening the agreed fiscal treaty," Juncker said. ...
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