Romanian Workers Spain has been given the green light by the EU executive to tighten restrictions on Romanian workers as it struggles with the highest unemployment in the 27-nation block. Spain will now require Romanians to have a work contract before settling in Spain and reverses a two and a half year moratorium that gave Romanian workers unrestricted access as fellow members of the European Union. The... 

Activists in Minsk protest against rise of fuel prices. As Minsk struggles to deal with the ongoing economic turmoil, rapid inflation is brewing unrest. The government had to lower fuel prices two days after a sharp increase, due to mass protests. ­On Thursday, Belarusian gas prices have dropped by almost a quarter, after President Lukashenko’s ordered the government to lower the cost. The prices... 

An EU flag flutters inside the European Union headquarters in Brussels. Brussels: It’s been a stormy year for the European single currency, and there are very real fears that the sovereign debt crises that hit Greece and Ireland could engulf other eurozone countries. The EU has been under fire for its response to the crisis and for not doing enough to prevent a fresh set of bailouts. No one could... 

Documentary film maker James Fox has released a new video, shot on location in and around Grand Isle, Louisiana. In the video, James and his crew collected numerous water samples, water with a visible oil presence. One of the water samples collected was from twenty miles off shore, while others were taken from the beach on Grand Isle. The footage also showed the oil caked hulls of boats from the area,... 

Portuguese Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira speaks during a parliamentary debate on the govenment’s controversial stability and growth program. As Greece barreled closer to the edge of a debt default this week, fears that the crisis would infect other countries rattled the world’s financial markets. “It’s not a question of the danger of contagion,” Angel Gurria, the...