A memorial to the 500,000 Sinti and Roma people who were murdered by the Nazis has been inaugurated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Europe's 12 million-strong Roma population still suffer from wide-ranging discrimination.

Greeks who are angry about austerity measures being imposed on their country by the European Union and IMF in return for a financial bailout are protesting against a visit to Athens by Germany's Angela Merkel. But CNN's Mathew Chance says the Germ...

From the video: Mosaic News - 09/17/12

While the world's attention was diverted by the Olympics, the war in Syria, and other news over the summer, Europe's economic crisis has continued to fester. VOA's Al Pessin reports that some experts say the situation is getting worse and requir...

Britain and the United States have called for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to take strong action.

Italy and Spain meet in Warsaw in the final of the euro 2012 on Sunday. And both countries will be pleased with their performance in the political arena too as the crucial EU summit goes into a final day. The deal allows bailout funds to go di...

From the video: Mosaic News - 06/01/12

European leaders are scrambling to find a solution to the Eurozone financial crisis after further falls on the continent's stock markets. An informal meeting held in Brussels has so far failed to produce any concrete results, but pressure is mount...

President Obama and other NATO leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit in Chicago that affirmed plans for a two-year pullout from Afghanistan, and fleshed out support for that country after the combat mission ends.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has pledged to give $193m a year to help support Afghanistan's security forces after NATO forces withdraw from the country in 2014. Merkel and Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, hailed a "milestone" in re...