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Economist Professor Richard Portes tells Channel 4 News there is a way out of the debt crisis engulfing the eurozone – but it needs political will to succeed.
It feels like August 2008 all over again. Thin markets, sharp movements in stock prices and credit markets. Europe’s leading bank shares slumping by up to 10 per cent. The world’s financial leaders on holiday.
The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso urges eurozone countries to move quickly to convince the markets that they have the financial crisis under control.
As the Government’s financial watchdog warns the UK economy will grow more slowly this year than expected, Channel 4 News looks at the UK’s place in the unhappy global economic picture.
Jon Snow
Beyond your immediate work colleagues, your immediate family and or lovers, can you think of anyone you might have seen 26 times… or even 16 times in the past year? Jon Snow blogs.
Italy’s lower house of parliament has approved a 48bn euro austerity package to try to calm a financial market storm which has sent Italian borrowing costs soaring in recent days.
As Italy’s Finance Minister Tremonti pushes ahead with his austerity plan, markets remain volatile over concerns that the debt crisis could spread to the eurozone’s third largest economy.
Nato has confirmed that one of its airstrikes on Tripoli went off target and may have caused civilian casualties, following claims by Libyan officials that nine civilians died in the strike.
France’s Christine Lagarde is favourite, while a trailing Gordon Brown has failed to secure David Cameron’s backing. We look at the main candidates to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the IMF.
Follow Channel 4 News across Libya as the conflict continues and watch the latest reports.
As Libya’s Transitional National Council calls for a no-fly zone over the country Channel 4 News looks at what that would mean.
Pressure on Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi is intensifying, with leaders including David Cameron calling for him to go as fighting in Libya continues. Follow the latest via our #c4news live blog.
As world leaders unite against the Gaddafi regime, Channel 4 News looks at the billion dollar deals and “friendship pacts” now hitting the skids, as John Sparks blogs on a nervous Europe.
Barack Obama launches “the biggest gamble of his presidency so far” as he seeks to manoeuvre an “elegant” but quick way for Egypt’s President Mubarak to leave office, says Sarah Smith.
Jon Snow
As a man is charged with murder and the attempted assassination of a congresswoman in Arizona, Jon Snow looks at what lessons can be learnt.