"They were playing poker," said Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling. "But in poker, you can always lose."
The operation aims to destroy the boats used to ferry thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean, but critics say it's just "sound and fury."
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will probably speak with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker by phone on Saturday to try to end the deadlock, a Greek minister said.
Athens and its creditors failed to secure a deal this week that would prevent the country from going bankrupt.
China will pledge a multibillion-dollar investment in Europe’s new infrastructure fund at a summit in Brussels June 29, Reuters reported.
The EU has more work to do, experts say, if it hopes to seal a transatlantic trade deal that has been criticized for leaving governments open to international legal action from companies affected by changes to tax and regulation.
Another study has found that bee populations decrease with increased use of pesticides.
Britain's opposition Labour Party will back Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to hold a referendum on the country's European Union membership.
The naval mission, once approved by the U.N., would allow the destruction of traffickers’ boats.
In an open letter, several rights groups have urged European lawmakers to vote for tougher laws to curb the trade of conflict minerals.
“Russia could join the EU, because our economies complement each other," Milos Zeman said.
The European Union's 28 member nations would be required to share the responsibility of housing thousands of refugees.
The European Union's leadership expects Cameron to stave off calls for a British exit from the European bloc.
The United Kingdom may no longer be in the European Union after an "in/out" referendum was promised by 2017.
European leaders also called on African nations to take responsibility for the migrant crisis.
For now, the decision is an attempt at compromise on a controversial topic.
The charges, which come at a time of heightened tensions with Russia, could deepen the rift with Moscow.
The latest chapter in the eurozone saga was on the agenda at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington this weekend.
The yields on all German government debt out to January 2024 were negative.
Regulators in the United States couldn't prove that Google was a monopoly. Now Europe will take a swing.
The fire on a nuclear submarine Tuesday was only the latest in a string of serious, often fatal, accidents to a once-mighty fleet.
The submarine is at Russian base around 350 miles from the Russian border with Finland.
