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Europe and the hokey cokey
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the twists and turns of the government’s EU policy – and what a referendum could involve.
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The British athletics team for the Paralympic Games 2012 is revealed, and includes a host of gold medallists and world record holders.
Spain’s troubled banking sector secures a 30bn euro bailout following an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers.
Chambers will compete for Britain in his first Olympic Games for 12 years after a ban for systematic drug use, but bronze medallist Jenny Meadows is left out in favour of Lyndsey Sharp.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the twists and turns of the government’s EU policy – and what a referendum could involve.
As David Cameron raises the prospect of a referendum on the EU, Channel 4 News looks at how Britain’s relationship with the continent may change.
A memorial is being unveiled to the airmen who gave their lives in the skies above Europe in world war two. The 70-year delay is a lot to do with the civilian death toll, writes Ben Monro-Davies.
With world leaders at the G20 summit putting pressure on eurozone countries to sort out their problems, Channel 4 News looks at the action they are taking.
Remember when Gordon Brown was claimed to have pleaded for an Obama face-to-face and didn’t get it – he was roasted by the press and (as we discovered at Leveson) very unusually lost his temper. Well, David Cameron’s bi-laterals at this world gathering will be with the leaders of Russia and Indonesia. He’s hoping fora chat with India’s prime minister but it wouldn’t be a long one if it happened.
World leaders at the G20 meeting in Mexico are queuing up to tell the eurozone its problems are beginning to hurt them. But are their problems home-grown?
As G20 leaders in Mexico urge Europe to take act to end the eurozone debt crisis, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso declares that the crisis originated in the US.
Gary Gibbon blogs on what will be a eurozone dominated G20.
David Nalbandian is handed the maximum fine on the ATP men’s tennis tour after kicking an advertising board into a linesman’s leg in the final at Queen’s Club in London.
Spain’s downgrade to one level above junk has Europeans worried the country may need much more than the 100bn euros earmarked for its basketcase banks.
Uncertainty about the future of the eurozone is killing off a UK economic recovery already threatened by high oil prices and Britain’s debt burden, says the Chancellor George Osborne.
Spain is expected to ask Europe today for money to recapitalise its banks. But one credit ratings agency says the country will need significantly more than the IMF’s estimated 40bn euros.