MADRID (AP) — A tiny Spanish village has voted to lease land for growing marijuana as a source of desperately needed revenue — a unique but legally questionable way of battling an economic crisis highlighted by staggering unemployment and a looming recession. A government official with the National Drug Plan said such planting would in fact be against the law and that prosecutors would intervene as soon...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are expected to formally grant Serbia the status of a candidate for membership in the bloc during their summit Thursday in recognition of its government's efforts to round up war crimes suspects and normalize relations with Kosovo, its former province. The move...
A gunman has wounded two people and is holding two hostages at a wheelie bin factory in northern Greece after losing his job, local police say. The two people injured, said to be...
* ECB liquidity flood buys policymakers time * Spain is test case for application of fiscal rules * Unemployment at euro-era record, growth strategy in focus By Paul Taylor and Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, March 1 (Reuters) - European Union leaders wrestled on Thursday with the balance between budget...
The UK has opted in to the EU passenger name record (PNR) agreement with the United States, Home Office minister Damien Green has confirmed. "The UK, in common with many other EU member states and third countries, places considerable value on the collection and analysis of PNR data (that data...
