It is no longer only grief and mourning sweeping across the Netherlands in the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It is now anger.

European Union ministers overcame German unease at direct aid to lenders and agreed on rules for how public funds can be made available for banks shown to have insufficient capital in upcoming balance-sheet checks.

A leftist party led by one of the few leading politicians in Slovakia to escape voter anger over a major corruption scandal has been propelled back into power in an early parliamentary election, according to final results today.

The Netherlands' coalition government has collapsed over the country's military mission in Afghanistan, the prime minister said today.

GERMAN opposition leader Angela Merkel’s conservatives rallied for the final three-week push of the German general election campaign with polls showing unanimously that victory is within their grasp.