Berlin - German investor confidence recorded a bigger-than -forecast fall in June, a key indicator released Tuesday showed, as a surging euro, spiralling inflation and worries about higher interest

Warsaw  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk are expected to discuss several sensitive issues Monday during their meeting in the Polish port city of Gdansk, with Ireland's recent rejection of the Lisbon Treaty most likely at the top of the agenda.

Tusk has said the Irish referendum would not disqualify the treaty and the European Union would look for ways to bring it into effect.

"The treaty is good for integration in the EU," he said, "and therefore good for Poland."

Munich  - A former executive at Eurocopter, the helicopter manufacturing company in the EADS group, receiv

Berlin  - Germany hopes the rerun of parliamentary

Berlin - Surging energy costs, the strong euro and a sense of growing uncertainty among consumers have combined to undercut the mood among German companies, a survey released Monday showed.

Hamburg  - German scientists have invented a wireless bionic eyeball that can restore vision in patients who have become blind due to retina damage or disease.