After calm returned to Frankfurt on Wednesday afternoon, commentators and politicians harshly criticised organizers of the day's anti-European Central Bank (ECB) demonstrations for allowing violence to mar their protest.
Frankfurt remains on alert after a morning of violence, burned cars and hundreds of arrests gave way to what is hoped to be an afternoon of peaceful protest. Organizers of the "Blockupy" demonstration against the new European Central Bank (ECB) building said they distanced themselves from the violence. Follow the latest updates here.
Up to 10,000 protesters are expected at a mass anti-austerity demonstration during the the official inauguration of the new European Central Bank (ECB) HQ in Frankfurt on Wednesday.
Greece's outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis described his country's liquidity problems as "insignificant" in a German TV appearance on Sunday.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble insisted Tuesday that urgent technical talks on extending Greece's bailout would involve the "troika" of creditors, despite claims by Athens that the much-loathed group would play no part.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is flooding the European markets with money by buying up government bonds, hoping to push prices on consumer goods back up.
UPDATE: Spiegel reported on Tuesday that Eurozone finance ministers had agreed the details of a financial aid programme for Greece in a conference call.
Update: Top European officials were engaged in furious diplomacy on Friday to build a bridge between fiercely divided Greek and German ministers whose agreement is needed to solve a bitter row over Greece's huge debt.
Berlin reacted harshly to a letter sent from Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to eurozone countries on Thursday, saying that it did not represent an acceptable compromise over Greece's bailout arrangements.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Wednesday that his meeting with European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi in Frankfurt had been "fruitful" and gave him "a great deal of encouragement".
Economics think tank Ifo said on Monday that their projections show Germany's exports exceeding imports by €220 billion in 2014, pushing the country to a new world record.
The eurozone's deep divisions were set to be given an airing in Florence on Friday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel days before crucial elections in Greece.
The European Central Bank (ECB) will buy €60 billion of European debt every month from March 2015 until September 2016, ECB president Mario Draghi announced on Thursday.
Southern European governments shouldn't think that a European Central Bank (ECB) plan to buy up government debt lets them off the hook for critical reforms, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.
The European Central Bank (ECB) will next week announce plans to directly buy government bonds, creating new money to fight off possible deflation despite German objections, according to a media report.
ECB board member Sabine Lautenschläger has disputed in a magazine interview that the eurozone is now experiencing deflation and expressed scepticism about the central bank buying up sovereign bonds.
The eurozone faces a growing risk of unstable prices, the head of the European Central Bank said in an interview Friday, at a time when concerns are mounting the bloc could slip into deflation.
The rise of populist parties across Europe should act as a wake-up call for governments to finally get their economies in order, a top European Central Bank official said Wednesday.
The European Central Bank will again offer banks a chance to get cheap long-term loans on Thursday, but disappointing uptake could put it under pressure to find other ways of kickstarting the Eurozone's moribund economy.
The European Central Bank is under fire in Germany because of its policy of negative interest rates, which is prompting some banks to charge business customers for holding money in their bank accounts.
UPDATE: A Europe-wide banking audit was failed by just one small German bank on Sunday, but on Monday an influential business confidence index fell to its lowest level for almost two years.
The head of Germany's powerful Bundesbank sharply criticised what he called a radical new approach by the European Central Bank of easy money, in an interview published Sunday.
The European Central Bank in Frankfurt has received a blackmail letter after its public website was hacked and contact data stolen, the bank said on Thursday.
Europe's battered financial sector is showing tentative signs of healing, even if it is still too early to sound the all-clear, a key ECB survey from Germany showed on Wednesday.
The European Central Bank on Tuesday defended its controversial bond purchase scheme, credited with pulling back the eurozone from the brink of collapse last year, in front of the Germany's highest tribunal, the Constitutional Court.
