Search results for ‘G8’

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  • 23 May 2012

    Austerity medication – does it cure or kill the patient?

    “Maybe we’re going to hell,” said Irene Lozano, an independent Deputy in the Spanish Assembly. “But if we do, we’ll take Germany with us.”

  • 23 May 2012

    French President Francois Hollande will be pushing plans for eurobonds at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Wednesday, an idea German Chancellor Angela Merkel flatly opposes.

  • 21 May 2012

    He is in charge of the UK at one of the toughest times in recent history, yet he likes to wind down whenever he can. Is David Cameron’s tendency to “chillax” good for him – and the country?

  • 20 May 2012

    Chelsea fans line the streets of west London on Sunday as the team celebrates the club’s historic Champions League and FA Cup double with a victory parade.

  • 18 May 2012

    Facebook: A kind of flash democracy

    Even Marc Zuckerberg knows that his journey from Harvard dorm to global domination in less than a decade is based on the fickleness of “friends”.

  • 18 May 2012

    Amid fears that Greece may be on the verge of leaving the euro, a senior EU commissioner tells Channel 4 News that there are no preparations for an exit.

  • 18 May 2012

    More than a billion people are at risk of hunger and malnutrition in the developing world: President Obama hopes private investment will help boost agricultural production and improve food security.

  • 17 May 2012

    Cameron speech – going down like cold moussaka

    Political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the less than positive reaction to David Cameron’s interventions on Europe.

  • 17 May 2012

    The new French president Francois Hollande will meet Barack Obama in the White House, ahead of the G-8 summit at Camp David on Thursday: is a new Franco-American relationship being forged?

  • 8 May 2012

    From Greece to France, from Britain to Italy, the message seems clear. Voters have had enough of the politics of austerity, enough of economic pain. But is there a realistic alternative?

  • 21 Mar 2012

    • Top rate of tax cut to 45p from April next year • Child benefit cut-off point rises to £50K • Are personal allowances changes a ‘granny tax’? Read Gary Gibbon’s blog: 50p tax – hero to zero? 13.47: Ed Miliband compares the government to Downton Abbey, a story of the “out of touch rich”.…

  • 13 Mar 2012

    Britain’s special relationship with America has been celebrated – then declared dead. As President Obama welcomes David Cameron with a 19 gun salute, is the transatlantic friendship back on course?

  • 14 Jan 2012

    Tunisia is celebrating the first anniversary of the fall of Ben Ali, which sparked the Arab Spring and spread to the entire region. But with discontent still rife, where does Tunisia find itself now?

  • 28 May 2011

    NATO jets strike a command centre where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sometimes lives, as a spokesman says it is a message to those attacking civilians that they can no longer hide behind high walls.

  • 27 May 2011

    Britain steps up its role in Libya by agreeing to deploy four attack helicopters amid claims that the Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi is increasingly paranoid and “on the run”.