The European Commission has unveiled its ideas as to how the introduction of so-called eurobonds would work. All of them would require member states to submit budget plans to the Commission for closer scrutiny.
Angela Merkel is standing strong against calls from Brussels to introduce eurozone-wide bonds, calling the idea "extremely worrying and inappropriate" in a debate over her government's 2012 budget.
Bavarian aristocrat and former German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has paid 20,000 euros to avoid prosecution on charges of plagiarism. With the case dismissed, Guttenberg could stage a political comeback.
For years, German authorities made no connections between the murders of nine migrant shopkeepers and a neo-Nazi terror cell. Migrant groups say it's because the state failed to recognize the far-right threat.
Egypt's ruling military council has agreed to form a new government that will prepare a presidential election to be held before next July. But the concessions were swiftly rejected by protesters in central Cairo.
The United Nations has moved closer to a full condemnation of Syria. The human rights committee of the UN General Assembly has approved a resolution put forward by the German ambassador to the United Nations.
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