Jacques Borel calls on coalition to lower rates to revive sector, including restaurants, and forecasts creation of 320,000 jobs if implemented

Shareholder spring means many are focused now on how the pot of ‘spoils' in financial sector could be more equitably divided

Alessandro Profumo among 20 due in court over use of Luxembourg-based offshore financial scheme set up by Barclays and used by the Italian bank

Marrying Asian money to desperate European groups has long been a dream, but suitors may have to wait until crisis point

Logistics group is to settle with the German government to resolve a six-year dispute about a VAT exemption that pitted Berlin against Brussels

Spanish group names independent lawyer Luis García del Río as its representative on the nationalised Argentine company's new 17-member board

Flights divert to Metigha after Tarhouna rebels demand return of their missing leader Abu-Ajilah Habashi, highlighting Libya's fragile security

Credit ratings of Commerzbank and five others are cut over fears for their capacity to deal with losses amid the eurozone debt crisis

Generali's domestic bond holdings mean that it is valued as a purely Italian concern

The move prompts analysts and investors to suggest that for the first time the Russian government is involving itself in the shareholder stand-off

French container ship fleet optimistic despite reporting $248m first-quarter loss and the announcement in March of the sale of assets

Lender set to join deposit protection scheme by mid-July as it attempts to insulate its 50,000 British savers from turmoil in Greece