Backing for tax deals with Switzerland

Split over next steps towards banking union

Germany resisting moves to create a single resolution authority.

Ireland seeks progress on tougher EU banking rules

Finance ministers to discuss how to cope with failing banks.

ECB under pressure to cut interest rates

Annual inflation at its lowest level since 2010.

Deal struck on tougher mortgage lending laws

Michel Barnier says consumers will get the “protection they deserve”.

Crackdown on secret accounts

Commission attempts to revise savings directive.
Fekter defiant over bank rules
Van Rompuy puts tax evasion on summit agenda
Osborne under pressure over islands' tax status
Ministers join forces to tackle tax evasion
A long and bitter struggle