LONDON — The Irish government on Tuesday declared it would hold a referendum on Europe’s freshly inked fiscal treaty, setting up a vote that could determine whether the island nation is willing to accept years of tough austerity to remain within the euro zone. Read full article > >

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Ireland becomes a test for EU crisis remedy

David Cameron urges France and Germany to back a “drive” to improve economic growth in the European Union.

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Cameron urges EU growth ‘drive’

TEHRAN — In a new show of defiance against tightened sanctions, Iran on Wednesday threatened to cut oil exports to several European Union countries and unveiled advances in its nuclear fuel programs. In a day of fiery speeches, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also lashed out at the West, condemning the recent assassinations of Iranian scientists. Read full article > >

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Iran threatens to cut some oil exports to Europe, touts nuclear advances

Iran has stopped oil exports to six European states in retaliation for European Union sanctions imposed on the Islamic state’s key export, the country’s English language Press TV reported on Wednesday.

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Iran Stops Oil Exports to Six E.U. Countries

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of people marched in New Delhi on Friday to protest an ambitious free-trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union that patient groups and health activists say could severely curtail India’s production and export of affordable drugs for millions living with HIV in developing countries. Read full article > >

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India-E.U. trade pact could boost AIDS treatment costs, health workers say

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of people marched in New Delhi on Friday to protest an ambitious free-trade agreement being negotiated between India and the European Union that patient groups and health activists say could severely curtail India’s production and export of affordable drugs for millions living with HIV in developing countries. Read full article > >

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India-E.U. trade pact could boost AIDS treatment costs, health workers say

Regulators from the European Union have requested that Google to hold off on rolling out its new privacy policy. In a letter to Google chief executive Larry Page, privacy regulator Jacob Kohnstamm said that European data protection officials would like to examine how the changes to Google’s privacy policy may affect European citizens. He also called for a “pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google’s commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens” until the analysis is done. Read full article > >

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EU regulators ask Google to delay new privacy policy

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarians celebrated joining the European Union eight years ago by chopping through the barbed wire that separated them from Austria, eliminating a final vestige of the Iron Curtain. But after years of financial crisis, many here in Europe’s heart are questioning their westward ties. Read full article > >

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Hungary grows weary of European Union

The bloc, however, still showed few signs of producing a comprehensive solution for the sovereign debt crisis or a credible plan to revive fragile economies.

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European Leaders Agree to New Budget Discipline Measures

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos suggested that the three leaders in his fractious coalition were prepared to back additional austerity measures and reforms needed to receive a second bailout.

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Greek Coalition Partners to Back New Reforms

World leaders at Davos now operate in a new atmosphere of popular discontent and economic turmoil in which even democracies have been shaken and disillusioned.

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Davos 2012: Across the World, Leaders Brace for Discontent and Upheaval

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George Soros Takes Critical Stand

Against the European Union.

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George Soros Takes Critical Stand

Croatians are set to vote on joining the organization, which has become mired in a debt crisis that threatens its very essence in the decade since the country first applied for membership.

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Croatia Wavers Over European Union as Allure Fades

European Union countries will need to sell billions of dollars in bonds every week in 2012 to replace existing debt, and policymakers and investors are watching debt auctions for signs of weakness.

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DealBook: For Europe, Few Options in a Vicious Cycle of Debt