Europe’s single currency – 15 years old on January 1st – has survived numerous crises

Parties fail to agree on setting House time aside for statements on late Cuban leader

Party leader unhappy about way State dealt with by institutions during economic crisis

The son of hipster parents, Nicholas Roche, creative director of furniture maker Roche Bobois, came to the family business late. Since then the company has become a leader in global design

The choice is a stronger EU or bloc’s end, French and German leaders tell parliament

A cruise along the Charente in south-west France takes in the town of the late French president’s birth and death

Desperate people are taking enormous risks to try to get into Britain from France

North, south, east and west, goodwill toward Greece is running on empty

Grace O’Sullivan joined the Greenpeace ship’s crew in 1985, intent on stopping nuclear tests in the Pacific, but the French secret service had other ideas

Lagarde and others uninhibited in warning Greeks they will be cast out from respectable company

‘Father of reunification’ at clinic in Heidelberg after surgery on his intestine

With its founding brothers gone, the German giant faces an uncertain future

Does she want to break Kohl’s 18-year record or will she go before being pushed?

Official visit aims to attract investment in France, where unemployment is at a 15-year high

Brendan Halligan gives inaugural Garret FitzGerald memorial lecture in Dublin