Growth, Plan B and the eurozone
The government is wrestling with a package of growth measures it would like to announce before the Summer recess. There are internal battles over the scale of all this and some of the content.
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Stock markets across Europe and Asia rally on news of Spain’s 100bn euro banking bailout, after the country’s economy is hit by the collapse of the property market.
As David Cameron tells MPs that Europe must be prepared for Greece leaving the single currency, eurozone officials call for contingency planning to start.
The government is wrestling with a package of growth measures it would like to announce before the Summer recess. There are internal battles over the scale of all this and some of the content.
With the possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone after elections on 17 June, Channel 4 News looks at how the country could adopt a new drachma.
With Greece in turmoil, Spanish banks under pressure and the future of the euro at stake, Channel 4 News looks at five approaches to managing a possible break-up of the single currency.
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.
Greece sets the date for fresh elections next month and will form a caretaker government, after talks aimed at forming a coalition failed.
As Greece heads towards rerun elections, Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam considers whether Europe is heading for a stormy political and economic earthquake
Europe’s governments and banks prepare the ground for a possible Greek exit of the euro, as politicians in Greece try to maintain the country’s position in the single currency.
Voters enraged with austerity measures are preparing to vote again in June as Greece’s president looks set to fail in his eleventh hour bid to cobble together a coalition government.
As the Greek stock market tumbles are the politicians now seeking to form a government say they will defy the EU, but can they do that? Faisal Islam reports from Athens.
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?
Europe awoke to an unpredictable future after elections in France, Greece and EU hopeful Serbia – exactly the type of turmoil that spooks bond and currency traders who crave stability.
Greece is successful in offering a bond swap to private creditors, after the deadline expired on a deal needed to avoid a debt default.
Channel 4 News Economic Editor Faisal Islam ruminates on the latest Greek bailout deal secured at a meeting of Eurozone ministers