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Britain's tax authority is investigating up to 100 British citizens with bank accounts in secretive Liechtenstein after buying data from an informant in a similar move to Germany, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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From harsh criticism of the Federal Reserve in the United States to the MIPIM real estate conference in Cannes, the week was filled with compelling video. But only seven made the cut.
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Investors hope the second quarter will be better than the first, when markets went on a rollercoaster of writedowns, trading scandals and record oil prices. Here are CNBC Europe's best videos of the first quarter.
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There is a real danger that the housing market crisis in the US could be repeated in Britain, analysts said on Tuesday.
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The European Central Bank's mission to fight inflation prevents it from worrying about economic weakness. But an abrupt slowdown could anger politicians and endanger the central bank's very mandate.
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The weak dollar is the main factor keeping prices at high levels, not the supply of oil, and that situation is likely to continue, current OPEC president Chakib Khelil, who is also Algerian Oil Minister, said on Tuesday.
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Surging energy and food prices pushed euro zone inflation to a new high of 3.6 percent in March, boosting the euro to a record high against the dollar on fading chances of a ECB rate cut in the near term.
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The only way to take this economy out of crisis is to grow it so that tax receipts go up.
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UK inflation hit a two and a half-year high Tuesday and experts are saying it is only a matter of time before it goes even higher.
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s claim that Italy's economy is stronger than Greece is supported by Italian economists and analysts, who argue that broad popular support for much-needed austerity in Italy will help it navigate the euro zone debt crisis.
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The mood is growing surly in the south of Europe as austerity measures take hold. With unemployment at 20 percent in some countries – and youth unemployment as high as 50 percent – warnings are growing sharper about a troubling rise of populist feeling. The Christian Science Monitor reports.
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The UK officially entered a double-dip recession during the first three months of the year, figures released on Wednesday showed, but budget businesses in the country aren't complaining.
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I sympathize with the Germans. This is not because I agree with their prevailing view of how the crisis occurred or what to do about it. I sympathize because the German elite were the ones who understood what creating the euro implied. They realized that a currency union could not work without a political union. The FT reports.
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Amid all the woes, could there be a silver lining to the EU financial crisis?
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Europe will likely hijack control of global markets again Thursday.
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European shares are called to open the trading day higher despite a lackluster European Union summit that found Greece being urged to stay in the euro zone but to honor commitments to its bailout agreement.
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Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, blunt in his assessment of how European leaders have handled their faltering economy, says Europeans need to stop complaining.
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With concern growing about the future of the euro zone, analysts are now debating ideas that were considered unthinkable.
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Markets in the week ahead will again be pulled by every real or rumored development out of Europe as investors await Friday’s U.S. employment report.
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Oil prices will likely extend losses for a fifth-straight week as fears about a Greek exit from the euro zone and Spain's banking system continue to trigger outflows from riskier assets, according to CNBC's weekly survey of oil market sentiment.