Greek crisis: crunch time
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
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The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
Zoi Konstantopoulou, Syriza MP and speaker of the Greek parliament, tells Channel 4 News her government is trying to serve its democratic mandate and not trying to blackmail Europe.
It is crunch time for Greece. If it fails to pay its debts it could be forced to leave the euro and the EU, and plunge into the unknown. These are the key dates as we approach possible Grexit.
Why did Greece collapse and Ireland survive? First, because the Irish crisis was a banking crisis. And in Greece you can’t impose austerity and hope modernise at the same time.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on trial in France, accused of “aggravated pimping”. What might the trial throw up for the former IMF head, who else is involved in it, and what is aggravated pimping?
Many thousands of Saudi men are in the field with Isis. But the Saudi royal family is so dominant that it is unclear who is linked to what when it comes to the export of extremism.
Saudi Arabia’s new monarch, 79-year-old King Salman, takes over after the death of his half-brother King Abdullah – but is his future heir the only likely break from a controversial family rule?
The European Central Bank enters the last chance saloon as it prepares to pump over one trillion euros into the Eurozone’s fragile economy – can it possibly work?
Shock statistics suggest the gap between rich and poor is becoming ever more extreme. But what does the evidence really show?
The world’s richest 1 per cent will own more than the other 99 per cent by next year, a charity warns.
The UK election debate on the economy is being fought out in Washington today with both Tories and Labour seeking US backing for their rival political ambitions.
In the UK for a three-day visit, Premier Li failed to kill off his ambassador’s insult suggesting Britain was behind Germany and France in Beijing’s estimation.
Unemployment continues to fall, but pay growth drops significantly – despite government hopes that the so-called “cost of living crisis” is coming to an end.
The International Monetary Fund says it “clearly under-estimated” the strength of Britain’s economic recovery, as Christine Lagarde plays down speculation about her leading the European Commission.
Angela Merkel may want France to propose Christine Lagarde as the new European Commission boss. But neither she nor Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker are safe bets for the job.