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Greece’s Pierrakakis wins Eurogroup race

ATHENS — The country that almost got kicked out of the eurozone is now running the powerful EU body that rescued it from bankruptcy. Greece’s finance minister, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, on Thursday beat

Do what I told you, Draghi implores Europe’s leaders

Mario Draghi has a message to the EU’s leaders: I did my bit, now you do yours. Member countries had praised his proposals for fixing the bloc’s sagging economy when he delivered

EU finance cop ‘frustrated’ at lack of European mega-bank mergers

BRUSSELS — The EU’s top banking cop says he’s “frustrated” by a domestic mindset that’s preventing cross-border banking mergers and undermining dreams of a united European financial sector. José Manuel Campa, chair

Spain violated EU rules by meddling in banking merger, says Brussels

BRUSSELS — The European Commission has issued a legal warning to Spain saying it violated European Union banking and single market rules by intervening in banking giant BBVA’s hostile takeover of local

Brussels tries (again) to build its elusive single market

Can the European Union offset the impact of trade tariffs, accelerate economic growth and compete with China and the United States to attract large businesses, all by fiddling with labeling requirements and

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