Europe

Gunmen opened fire on the offices of French satirical cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. Bloomberg's Brendan Greeley looks at what Charlie Hebdo is and why it was the target of France's worst terrorist attack in decades.

Lithuania accession to the ECB's Governing Council will force Germany's Bundesbank president to sit out some votes. Bloomberg's Hans Nichols reports.

Here's a look at the death of gas giant Total's CEO, Christophe de Margerie, and how it relates to the current currency war against the petrodollar involving China and Russia.

Vladimir Putin criticized the West for "sawing at branches" with sanctions against Russia and releasing a "genie in a bottle" with color revolutions. RT looks at the Russian President's best quotes from his speech in Sochi.

Over the past year the European Central Bank has conducted a stress test on 130 of the biggest banks in the Eurozone. Bloomberg gives you what you need to know in 60 seconds.

German industry takes its biggest hit since the 2009 financial crisis - adding to the chorus of discontent over the EU's sanctions against Russia.

German businesses are feeling the pinch of the political tit for tat. Sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU are effecting many mid-size businesses in the Eurozone’s largest economy.

In an exclusive interview, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin discusses how he wants to bolster the use of the Euro in international transactions to counteract the dominance of the dollar.

Pollution is rarely big news these days. You're more likely to hear about it in a history lesson on the Industrial Revolution. But many European cities are suffering as air pollution is becoming a serious problem. Bloomberg's Tom Gibson reports.

A look at the pipeline battle between the East and West and how the South Stream Pipeline project could cripple the Western regime.

Vladimir Putin faced a barrage of tricky questions in France from the media ahead of his meeting with world leaders at the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Here are his best replies on key issues: Ukraine, Crimea, relations with the US, and others. Here is the full interview.

Bloomberg’s Ryan Chilcote reports on an agreement for Russia to supply gas to China in a deal to provide billions of dollars of natural gas over the next 30 years and what it may mean for relations between the two nations going forward.

A look at How Russia is Working Together with China to battle the dollar and a look at one of the world's largest economies and what to expect.

Robin Marshall, director of fixed income at Smith & Williamson, discusses the state of the Greek economy as the nation returns to the bond market.

Will America save Europe with its LNG boom and remove Russia as the primary source of gas for Europe? There's more to this story than you know, including another player that could change the world.

Michael McKee reports on the crisis in the Ukraine and how economic sanctions from the West cannot be used in the Ukraine struggle.

The Euro tied together 17 countries at the time of the crisis. But when one country suffers, everyone else does. Here's the European debt crisis visualized.