Charlie Dunmore

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators threw a temporary bridge across the increasingly awkward gap between the idea of regulating the $600-trillion swaps market and the reality of actually doing it.

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union will propose offering at least 150 million euros ($219 million) in compensation to farmers affected by the E.coli outbreak, the European commissioner for agriculture said on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Franco-Belgian financial group Dexia <DEXI.BR> is to hold talks with European Union regulators in the coming days to amend a restructuring plan which it agreed to after receiving a bail-out in 2008.

HAMBURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Cucumbers imported from Spain may be the source of an E. coli outbreak that Germany says has killed four people and affected at least 200 more, European health officials said Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Commodity trader Glencore, set to list this month in one of London's largest-ever offerings, has detailed its involvement in a Belgian criminal probe as it outlines risks to investors, including fraud and corruption.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's death will not change NATO plans in Afghanistan but his killing in neighboring Pakistan shows a need for more security cooperation there, the alliance's chief said on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO must increase cooperation with Pakistan to ensure a long-term solution to the Afghan conflict, despite the killing of Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil, the military alliance's chief said Wednesday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The head of NATO said on Wednesday Muammar Gaddafi's forces were much weaker now than when the military alliance began its operation against the Libyan leader's armed forces.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The head of NATO said on Wednesday the U.S. operation in which al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed on Monday was justified.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Environmental lobby ChemSec on Tuesday highlighted 22 hormone-disrupting chemicals routinely found in plastics, packaging and cosmetics that it wants regulated by the European Union.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU's telecoms chief threatened on Tuesday to impose tougher rules to ensure Internet providers do not discriminate against some content companies such as internet voice call providers like Skype.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Inflation in the euro zone climbed higher than expected in March to 2.7 percent year-on-year, statistics published on Friday showed, adding to the case for further rises in interest rates.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments should be allowed to ban the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops based on environmental concerns including the prevention of "super weeds," EU lawmakers said on Tuesday.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain vowed on Thursday it would not follow ailing neighbor Portugal in seeking a European bailout, and a successful Spanish bond auction suggested markets do not immediately fear contagion.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union said it will further reinforce its radiation controls on imports of food and animal feed from Japan from next week, in response to the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Saturday denied a report in German magazine Der Spiegel that it was privately pressing Greece to restructure its debt.

WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Saturday denied a report in German magazine Der Spiegel that it was privately pressing Greece to restructure its debt.

LISBON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Credit rating agency Fitch downgraded Portugal on Friday saying the debt-laden country needed a bailout, while rival agency S&P cut Ireland's rating after bank stress tests revealed another black hole.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain became the latest European Union country on Thursday to raise serious doubts over proposals to let EU governments decide individually whether to grow or ban genetically modified (GM) crops.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation was lower than initially estimated in January but still well above the European Central Bank's target and likely to rise further in February due mainly to more expensive oil.