Alta participación en las elecciones a la espera de los primeros datos. Alexis Tsipras afirma al depositar su voto que el pueblo griego va a recobrar la dignidad .

Valencia, España .- El secretario general del partido español Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, declaró hoy que en Grecia, donde hoy se celebran elecciones generales, "ya se escucha el tic-tac" del cambio que, según dijo, también llegará a España.
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German lawyer who has been prominent in attempts to halt euro zone bailouts said he was already preparing a legal complaint anticipating that the ECB will announce a government bond-buying programme on Thursday.

Peter Gauweiler, a conservative Bavarian politician and lawyer, said he had instructed his legal team to "closely analyse today's decision by the European Central Bank council and pre-emptively prepare a complaint" with Germany's Constitutional Court.

Draghi says the decision was taken to counter two unfavourable factors - weak inflation and weak growth.

The ECB President admits the action the central bank took last year was “insufficient” to ward off the threat of deflation.

The actions will sizeably increase the ECB’s balance sheet, he says, and support its forward guidance on interest rates. These factors should strengthen demand and support money and credit growth and thereby return inflation to about 2%.

The European Central Bank today announced its plan to buy government bonds worth 60 billion euros. The move is seen as a resort to its last big policy option for breathing life into the flagging euro zone economy.

ECB president Mario Draghi said eurosystem will start buying investment grade sovereign bonds. The bond-purchasing programme will begin from March this year and end in September 2016.

The Government has taken the unprecedented step of writing to every mosque in the country to tell Muslim leaders that they must do more to root out the “men of hate” who are preaching extremism.Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, has written to 1,100 imams and Islamic leaders urging them to publicly condemn the Al Qaeda terrorists behind the Paris massacres, The Telegraph has learned.

Switzerland's franc soared by almost 30 percent in value against the euro on Thursday after the Swiss National Bank abandoned its three-year old cap at 1.20 francs per euro.

In a chaotic few minutes on markets after the SNB's announcement, the franc broke past parity against the euro to trade at 0.8052 francs per euro before trimming those gains to stand at 1.0350 francs.

It also gained 25 percent against the dollar to trade at 0.8900 francs per dollar.

Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey, a surprise move that the European Union’s energy chief said would hurt its reputation as a supplier.

The decision makes no economic sense, Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president for energy union, told reporters today after talks with Russian government officials and the head of gas exporter, OAO Gazprom (GAZP), in Moscow.

Almost 150 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift boats have been rescued off the coast of Spain in less than a week, officials said Sunday.

In the largest of several rescue operations last week, a boat carrying 53 people was spotted on Friday by a ferry off the coast of Andalusia in southern Spain, local emergency services said

he resplendent Christmas display of dolls and teddy bears in the window of the Asi toy store is a hallmark of the holiday season on Madrid’s Gran Via, one of the Spanish capital’s busiest shopping streets.

This year, there is a farewell notice among the decorations: “Thank you for these 72 years!” it says. Dozens of shoppers stop to take photos for posterity of one of Madrid’s oldest and best-loved stores.

Macau’s casinos recorded their worst year, ending a decade of expansion that turned the former Portuguese enclave into the world’s biggest gambling hub. More tough times are ahead.

Casino revenue in the city fell 2.6 percent to 351.5 billion patacas ($44 billion) in 2014, after a record 30.4 percent monthly drop in December, according to figures from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau today. Analysts projected a 2 percent annual decline, based on the median of nine estimates in a Bloomberg News survey.

Greece is headed for yet another political crisis. On Monday the Greek Parliament rejected the prime minister’s nominee for president, forcing the country into early general elections on Jan. 25. The fallout of this round of turmoil will be a critical sign of whether European leaders can hold on to power long enough to stay the course on the fiscal reforms needed to lift economies in the region. The upheaval comes just four years after the country accepted its first international bailout and almost single-handedly sent the global economy into a

Madrid airport's bustling fourth terminal, Edu's trolley is loaded with suitcases, but he won't be checking them in. Unlike the thousands of Christmas travellers, he is not flying anywhere.

For him the terminal is his destination - the closest thing he has to a home.

France's floundering economy pushed car sales 6.8 percent lower year-on-year in December, while Spanish sales jumped by 21.4 percent, helped by a subsidy scheme, and also rose in Italy, according to auto industry associations.

The contrasting year-end performance highlights how France has been left out of a fragile recovery in Europe's car sector.

Mainstream political parties in Europe should not try to imitate eurosceptics, but defend European integration, the EU's Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has said.

Juncker explicitly names the two political parties that are in the Dutch coalition, centre-right Liberal and centre-left Labour, and the centre-right Christian-Democrats, who are a member of Juncker's political family, the conservative EPP.

The Italian Coast Guard rescued 970 migrants Wednesday after smugglers put their cargo ship on automatic pilot heading straight for a crash into the Italian coast and abandoned the command.The Coast Guard officials said the migrants, most believed to be Syrians and including many children and pregnant women, arrived safely in Gallipoli, in Italy’s southeastern Puglia region, before dawn Wednesday. More than 100 migrants were treated for hypothermia.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Euro zone politicians are not obliged to rescue Greece as the country is no longer of systemic importance to the single currency bloc, a senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's

El diario 'The Washington Post' revela que sólo el 11% de los investigados eran objetivos reales de la Agencia de Seguridad. La NSA acumuló mensajes ed amor, encuentros sexuales, puntos de vista políticos y 5.000 fotografías personales. Por ley, la NSA sólo puede marcar como "objetivo" para espiar a extranjeros que residan fuera de EE UU a menos que tengan una orden judicial.

La Carrera de Ferraz para hacerse con el liderazgo del PSOE entra en su recta final y se encuentra más igualada que nunca en la cabeza de la competición. El candidato Pedro Sánchez, hasta hace poco desconocido y que empezó muy rezagado, ha adelantado esta semana al más veterano Eduardo Madina y ya le saca 3,8 puntos. A siete días de las elecciones primarias para ser secretario general del PSOE, esto le convierte en favorito, aunque por estrecho margen, para liderar el partido.