The ECSC became the core of today s European Union.

BRUSSELS Sentiment in European financial markets has turned.

While markets remained calm, the Cyprus crisis revealed the full extent of the political disaster that the eurozone crisis has wrought the European Union is disintegrating at its core.

Distribution services are at the core of the logistics chain through which markets materialize.

Distribution services are at the core of the logistics chain through which markets materialize.

EU environmental policy has thus become a core area of European politics.

BRUSSELS August was quieter than feared on the European bond markets.

Europeans need Russian gas, but Gazprom needs European markets and investment.

The majority (85 ) of Libyan oil is exported to European markets.

European bond markets are again delivering a chilling message to global policymakers.

The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica.

And European states have, since 1945, made democracy a core element in their integration.

European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet would never allow this to happen to the ECB he manipulates markets markets don t manipulate him.

Core countries also kept their domestic markets open, allowing East Asian countries to export freely the manufactured products that resulted.

These assurances managed to calm the markets and restarted the flow of capital from the eurozone s core to its periphery.

The European Commission s proposal is intended to underscore European solidarity and burden sharing both core EU principles. But the plan s limited scope undermines this impression.

Ukraine belongs to a united European political entity the values that Ukraine endorses and that are embedded in its history are European to the core.

Moreover, flexible labor markets imply adversarial labor relations, particularly when compared to northern European countries.

The European debt crisis, however, remains, and markets do not fully trust the current calm.

After all, when that decline resumes, their dollar holdings will buy less in European markets.

Direct rail transport to western European markets would involve distances of 10,000 km or more.

In financial markets, an unexpected collapse in real estate securities and design defects in the derivatives and repo markets combined to damage core financial institutions ability make good on their payment obligations.

And spillover effects from Greece will continue to affect Balkan and other emerging European banking markets.

European growth, with its heavy dependence on trade, received a special boost, as did emerging markets.

Suddenly, the single European market is forgotten, and a return to fragmented markets is taking root.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi provided such a narrative to the financial markets last July.

The core of financial activity depends on reputation, information networks, and the ability to make markets as well as trade on them.

To boost their output and allow them direct access to European markets will require market based incentives.

Many emerging country exporters, struggling to retain customers in the wobbly US and European markets, feel otherwise.

If markets are opened up, countries should be given the right to countervail American and European subsidies.

European fixed income markets rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the markets had misread him.

In the field of foreign trade, owing to the economic blockade, the Yugoslav economy stood to lose major markets in the European Community and other European countries.

My government has pledged its willingness live up to the legal norms that are the core of European Union membership.

But her core problem remains that of promoting domestic economic expansion and achieving accord on a self sustaining European strategy.

Impact of economic transition in Eastern and Central European countries on world markets for commodities (1994) 19 000

Thus, negotiations on European financial transfers, the core of European solidarity, will be much tougher in the future than they were in the past (when they were already difficult enough).

Core countries, meanwhile, argue that they can do little to strengthen aggregate demand and relieve pressure on their partners, even as the periphery s agony is dragging the core into recession, owing to its dependence on peripheral export markets.

While the United States and the European Union (EU) 15 top the list, with their markets exceeding 6 trillion each, developing countries' markets are the main concern of global retailers.

The Kyoto Protocol has generated new markets for trading carbon emissions, such as the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Germany needs both China s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.

While European leaders have repeatedly done what previously seemed unthinkable, their responses have been out of synch with markets.

BERKELEY Financial markets are increasingly certain that a Greek debt restructuring is coming, and European policymakers fear the worst.

In addition, there is the possibility of direct rail transport to western European markets through eastern and central Europe.

Moreover, balkanization of economic activity, banking systems, and public debt markets continues, as foreign investors flee the eurozone periphery and seek safety in the core.

Eventually, as in the Asian crisis, European governments and the European Commission fell out with the Fund and began to blame its analysis for having confused and unsettled markets.