FRANKFURT - The German trade surplus climbed to 13.6 billion euros in October, figures released on Wednesday by the national statistics office showed. In September, the biggest European economy and one of the world's leading exporters had posted a
DUBLIN - An Irish Catholic order of nuns who were strongly criticised in a report on child abuse said Thursday it will pay 128 million euros in damages. The Sisters of Mercy said the cash and property was reparation for the suffering of children
FRANKFURT - German industrial giant Siemens said Thursday it suffered a net loss of one billion euros in the last quarter of its 2008/09 fiscal year, and expected the current year to be worse. Earnings from the year ended on September 30 were slam
BERLIN - General Motors wants 2.7 billion euros from European governments to restructure its Opel/Vauxhall unit, but important questions are unanswered, Germany said on Wednesday. GM sees the financing need for its plans at 3.3 billion euros. G
FRANKFURT - The German industrial conglomerate MAN could face up to 300 million euros in fines, costs and fiscal sanctions stemming from a corruption affair, a press report said on Monday. A MAN spokesman told AFP the amount was just speculation,
DUBLIN - Ireland's top two banks hope to get about 28.2 billion euros in return for soured property loans which will be transferred to a bad bank scheme, they said in statements on Monday. Allied Irish Bank said it hoped to get 17 billion euros
ZAGREB - Croatia is to invest almost 550 million euros in adjustments needed to join the European Union, that Zagreb hopes will occur in 2011, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said Saturday. In 2010 budget we have allocated two billion kunas for ac
THE HAGUE - Bank group ABN Amro reported a third-quarter net loss of a billion euros on Wednesday, a sharp improvement from the outcome in the previous quarter. The figures included a 32-million-euro loss for the Dutch state which gave the bank a
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