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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has put tax reform at the heart of his austerity plan, and says his government is serious about fixing the roots of his country's current economic predicament. He says Greece will tackle its deficit without the deep government-wage or job cuts that other...
One country, however, appears to be better prepared than the others: Denmark. The biggest Danish power company has partnered with a California start-up company, Better Place, to build a nationwide grid to support electric cars, composed of thousands of charging poles in towns and cities and service stations along...
An electric-car race is under way in Europe and countries are rushing out their plans for the future - each one more ambitious than the last - in an effort to prove who's the greenest of them all. Spain aims to have 1 million electric or hybrid cars on the...
"The euro bears most watching in 2010," says economist David Rosenberg of investment firm Gluskin Sheff & Associates in Toronto. "The fiscal situation in Greece and Portugal is the most significant test for the euro's expansion in at least a decade."
Nonetheless, it was unthinkable that the E.U. would sit idly by and watch Greek finances crumble a mere 11 years after the euro's birth. European leaders are keenly aware that the crisis is not restricted to Greece. If the nation were allowed to default on its debts, the bug...