Debt forgiveness could ease eurozone woes

The eurozone debt crisis never went away. It merely acquired a misleading veneer of resolution thanks to grand promises, political chest-thumping and frazzled financial markets that were desperate to believe in happily ever after.

Analysis - Will Europe's banking 'big bang' loosen lending?

PARIS (Reuters) - In the biggest advance in European integration since the launch of the euro in 1999, the European Central Bank will take charge of supervising banks from Helsinki to Lisbon in November after subjecting their books to unprecedented scrutiny.

Politics poses biggest risk to euro zone endurance

PARIS (Reuters) - With the euro zone bond market back to irrational exuberance and economic growth returning slowly if unevenly, politics rather than economics now poses the biggest threat to the long-term endurance of Europe's single currency.

ECB leaves key rate unchanged

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Central Bank head Mario Draghi is reassuring markets that the bank is nowhere near ending its stimulus measures for the weak eurozone economy.