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Olli Rehn, the European Union (EU) monetary affairs commissioner, flew to Greece this week to demand that the government implements even more severe austerity measures.

The European Union has Spain in the firing line as the economic crisis intensifies.

Europe is in turmoil. Bosses are desperate to force workers to pay for the economic crisis.

The pressure on Greek workers intensified in the days following last week’s strike.

Europe’s politicians and bosses are targeting Greece. They are trying to bulldoze through devastating cuts.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last week ruled that the police’s use of stop and search is illegal. But the Labour government is determined to keep the powers.

The year uprisings swept Europe is dramatically brought to life in this study of 1848 across a dozen capitals, from Paris to Krakow.

The economic crisis that has swept Eastern Europe and Russia was the ghost at the feast at last year’s celebrations of the anniversary of the 1989 revolutions.

"Racial cleansing" returned to western Europe last weekend.

Corporate chiefs and political leaders around the world have welcomed 2010 with a growing sense of foreboding as economic crisis continues to stalk the globe.

Is the Tobin Tax on international financial transfers an idea whose time has come? It has been endorsed by the United Nations, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Financial Services Authority chair Lord Turner, and now the European Union (EU).

Seeing the recent wave of student occupations and demonstrations across Europe and the world, some people argue that nothing like it will ever happen in Britain.