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The government should announce on Tuesday a record deficit of foreign trade of France close to 70 billion euros in 2011.
70 billion euros, the amount of foreign trade deficit for the French government plans to announce Tuesday. An absolute record much higher than the previous record set in 2008.
Secretary of State for [...]

U.S. stocks ended sharply lower Thursday as investors showed particularly nervous after the downward crossing of an important threshold for the S & P.
The Dow Jones lost 1.13% or 134.86 points at 11,770.73 points, while the Standard & Poor's 500, the reference fund managers, gave up 1.68% or 20.78 points to 1,216 , [...]

A cabinet meeting will be held tonight to accept the austerity measures agreed at the Summit of the rescue of the euro on October 28 in Brussels. The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at the European Summit of October 23, 2011
The Italian government said Wednesday in a statement the convening of an extraordinary cabinet [...]

The decisions of the top leaders of the euro area in particular provide a 50% discount on Greek debt held by private creditors and a strengthening of the EFSF to 1.000 billion euros. The details. The European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel in Brussels.
The top of the eurozone, which [...]

The head of credit ratings of sovereign debt at Fitch Ratings said he was convinced that Spain and Italy were solvent but considered Friday that the two countries were potentially illiquid.
David Riley has also held that a creditor of last resort credible was necessary to Rome and Madrid, stressing that the European Central [...]

The French Finance Minister Baroin promised Saturday to the rest of the world that the Europeans would provide a response on October 23 "critical" to the debt crisis. The French Minister of Economy Baroin chaired the G20 finance 14 to 15 October in Paris
Europe is the threshold of a decisive week that will culminate [...]

The European Commission intends to condition aid to some of the environmental and cap subsidies to make the CAP more just. A production of cabbage in Lithuania.
Brussels wants farmers to "go green". The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to condition part of the aid to respect for the environment, and to the Common Agricultural [...]

The leader of the ultra-liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) is threatening not to support the strengthening of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). Slovakia is the latest European country to not voting the text. Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova and the president of Freedom and Solidarity Movement (SaS) Richard Sulik in negotiations for el parliamentary [...]

European values ​​have come down sharply Tuesday for the third straight session, closing with a lowest close in 26 months, fear of failure to Greece making only grow with each passing day.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index yielded 2.68 and the Eurostoxx 50 was unscrewed from 2.21%. In Paris the CAC 40 ended down [...]

The CAC 40 index should increase by the end of the year, investors hoping to buy with it as long as the situation becomes clearer on the front of the debt crisis in the eurozone.
According to the median forecast of 27 analysts and fund managers polled by Reuters in a week, the Cac [...]