11:20pm

Populist wins Serbian presidential poll

Concerns grows over EU integration after Nikolic victory

8:44pm

Italy earthquake kills six people

Local Parmigiano-Reggiano industry badly hit

7:20pm

EU summit to raise pressure on Merkel

Controversial proposals back on agenda

4:31pm

Italian bomb attack ‘not mafia’

Explosion ‘probably’ isolated act of individual

4:24pm

Fear drives Irish towards Yes vote

Government says bailout recovery at stake

From GLOBAL ECONOMY 12:43am

UK embrace alters bank outlook

EBRD’s focus turns to north Africa

From UK 11:54pm

Cameron brushes off EU referendum calls

Demands from Tory right for ‘in-out’ plebiscite

From ASIA-PACIFIC 11:17pm

Nato seeks orderly Afghanistan exit

Chicago summit to set date for formal pull-out

From COMPANIES 9:13pm

Funds’ €60bn to buy European bank debt

Continent’s lenders seek to shrink their way to health

Wolfgang Munchau from COMMENT 6:30pm

The only way to stop a eurozone bank run

Case for bloc-wide deposit insurance and bank resolution regime

From UK 5:46pm

Europe’s not so happy referendum history

Voters have often answered in the negative

Tony Jackson from COMPANIES 4:39pm

Corporates have a debt mountain to climb

Europe needs a deep liquid bond market

From GLOBAL ECONOMY May 19, 2012

G8 splits over stimulus versus austerity

‘Right measures not the same for each of us’

May 19, 2012

Bomb explodes outside Italian school

16-year-old girl dead at school named after anti-mafia prosecutor

From UK May 18, 2012

UK fears sound of a Greek exit

Repercussions Britain might expect if the bloc loses a member

May 18, 2012

European chorus warns Greeks of impending peril

Voters told June poll is in effect a referendum on euro membership

May 18, 2012

Briton to head development bank

Civil servant Sir Suma Chakrabarti takes EBRD presidency

From MARKETS May 18, 2012

Spain’s pain becomes Europe’s big fear

Contagion fears and bank worries shift focus of crisis

From COMMENT May 18, 2012

Europe’s hubristic imperial overstretch

Germany and France should return to the original Treaty of Rome

From COMMENT May 18, 2012

Time to end ‘Camerkozy’ economics

The PM cannot help solve this crisis because he is a central part of the problem

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