By Thomas Fuller and Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune December 13, 2007 Frustrated with the U.S. position in deadlocked negotiations at a United Nations conference on global warming, the European Union threatened Thursday to boycott separate talks that are to be held by the United States next month. The escalating bitterness between the EU and […]
By Floyd Norrisand & Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune December 12, 2007 Central banks in Europe and North America moved Wednesday to increase the amount of money they could lend to banks and to make it more readily available in an attempt to ease the credit squeeze, and stock markets rose across the Atlantic. It […]
By Dan Bilefsky and Stephen Castle International Herald Tribune December 12, 2007 PRISTINA, Kosovo: Kosovo will declare its independence in the first two months of 2008 and will be recognized by Britain, France, Italy and Germany within 48 hours, under a plan to be proposed by Slovenia after it assumes the presidency of the European […]
By Ben Hall and Tony Barber Financial Times December 5 2007 President Nicolas Sarkozy of France broke ranks with other European Union leaders in response to Russia’s widely criticised parliamentary election when he rang President Vladimir Putin to “congratulate” him on his victory, it emerged on Tuesday… more
By Javier Blas Financial Times December 5 2007 Opec rebuffed consumer nations’ pleas for a production boost on Wednesday by leaving its official output ceiling unchanged at least until February. The decision triggered a brief price rally above $90 a barrel. The oil producers’ cartel argued that, in spite of high prices, the market was […]