Dublin - Irish Finance Minister Brian

Helsinki  - New Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, who last week succeeded veteran Ilkka Kanerva, was Thursday to visit Austria, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Stockholm  -  A consortium that plans to build an underwater Baltic Sea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany said Tuesday it has dropped plans to build a service platform east of the Swedish Baltic

Luxembourg/Brussels - Sweden is allowed to tax wine more heavily than beer since the higher excise duty on the imported alcoholic beverage does not, on its own, induce consumers to buy more Swedish

Berlin - Despite sagging global growth, soaring oil prices and the threat of renewed turmoil hanging over share markets, Europe appears to have managed so far to weather the storm unleashed by the