People in Cyprus continue to face restrictions on the amount of money they are permitted to withdraw from bank accounts. Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

Two months after the Cyprus bailout, capital controls are still in place on the Mediterranean island. The phrase is one of the many muted, unde(...)

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan with Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem (left) and EU commissioner Olli Rehn in Brussels yesterday. Photograph: AP

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has given the strongest signal yet that Ireland may avail of the European Central B(...)

Consumer sentiment declined marginally last month as more downbeat expectations for the economy mingled with concern over future household fina(...)

Slovenian prime minister Alenka Bratusek: said the stability package would be enough to prevent the tiny Alpine country following Cyprus in the euro zone queue for a bailout. Photograph: Matej Leskovsek/International Herald Tribune

Slovenia has pledged to sell 15 state firms and raise VAT in a desperate bid to avoid an international bailout, but a reliance more on revenues(...)

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare a mortar in Sidi Meqdad area in the suburbs of Damascus, this week. The US government is rethinking its opposition to armingSyrian rebels, President Barack Obama’s defence chief has said. Photograph: Ward Al-Keswani/Reuters

The United States is rethinking its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, President Barack Obama’s defence chief has said, even as Mr Obama h(...)

German chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian prime minister Enrico Letta inspect a guard of honour during a welcome ceremony outside the Chancellery in Berlin yesterday. Photograph:Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

Italy’s new prime minister Enrico Letta has called on European leaders to devote(...)

A participant in an anti-austerity march in Dublin last November. Photograph: Alan Betson

Imagine that, last night, you’d watched a TV news report depicting some distant people who, living amidst great abundance of the wherewithal fo(...)

President Michael D Higgins has called for a fresh start to be made  now, in the midst of the financial crisis. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

People need to make a fresh start based on ethics, the President has told a conference, adding a new and fairer society would not automatically(...)

‘The current blip in the price of gold is just that, a blip” according to Dublin auctioneer John Weldon, who believes it will rise again in the(...)

German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to Volker Kauder, chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, prior to debates over EU finanical aid to Cyprus at the Bundestag on Thursday. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

German chancellor Angela Merkel has urged caution in interpreting “distorted” ECB statistics that suggest Germans are less wealthy than many eu(...)

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