Mario Draghi

I always dismissed arguments that the eurozone?s time as an economic power was up, pointing out the strengths of the common currency area. But I finally realized that I have been wrong all along.

The European Central Bank (ECB) will buy EUR 60B in assets per month from March 2015 until end-September 2016 to stimulate flagging economic growth in Europe, the bank's President Mario Draghi announced on Thursday.

The European Central Bank on Thursday committed to a quantitative easing (QE) program that will see it print money to buy up 60 billion euros worth of sovereign bonds from March until the end of September next year.

The money will include some from existing programs.

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at record lows and said President Mario Draghi will announce further policy measures at a media briefing later.

By Maria Petrakis, Donal Griffin, Ben Sills & Thomas Penny

They speak different languages, they come from different backgrounds, yet all have the same message of frustration that?s threatening to redraw the European political map over the next year.

By Paul Carrel & John O'Donnell

The European Central Bank is poised to announce a plan on Thursday to buy government bonds, resorting to its last big policy tool for breathing life into the flagging eurozone economy and fending off deflation.

By Jonathan Morgan

European stocks halted a four-day rally that took them to a seven-year high.

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index slipped less than 0.1 percent to 355.8 at 11:27 a.m. in London, with the Swiss Market Index falling 1.6 percent after a two-day rebound.

By Sotiris Nikas

By Lucy Meakin

The yield premium investors demand to hold Italian bonds instead of German bunds rose from the least since May 2010 as investors considered the scale and form of anticipated European Central Bank sovereign-debt purchases.

By Simon Kennedy & Stefan Riecher

The euro-area economy is back in the cross-hairs of investors.