Paul Mason
Greece – five pictures of a troubled country
Ahead of a crucial meeting on the Greece debt crisis on Monday, Paul Mason presents a special long-read, offering five pictures of the country.
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Paul Mason
Greece: Europe’s last-ditch effort to keep it in euro?
After a weekend of leak and counter-leak, today has seen another dramatic development: the leak to a newspaper of the European Commission’s proposal to break the Greece logjam.
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Paul Mason
Exclusive: details of rejected draft Euro statement
The Eurogroup finance ministers have just broken up without agreement over a programme on the Greek debt.
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Gary Gibbon
Hollande: Europe reorientated; Merkel: Nothing’s changed
Gary Gibbon blogging from the Euro summit in Brussels sees two different narratives emerging. Hollande says “Europe has been reorientated”; Merkel insists that nothing has changed.
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Gary Gibbon
Pressure on Germans to help Spain
Don’t expect any great gestures from Angela Merkel at the EU summit, says Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
PM’s Mexican stand-off with Jimmy Carr
David Cameron catches up on Jimmy Carr’s tax scandal and tells Gary Gibbon it’s “morally wrong”.
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Gary Gibbon
A ‘retail moment’ in Mexico City
We are in Mexico City for a trade trip on the way home from the G20 summit, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Eurozone debt crisis: what will be agreed?
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.
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Spanish banks bailout: your questions answered
With a 100bn euro rescue of Spain’s banks agreed, Channel 4 News looks at the deal Madrid has struck with its European partners and the implications for Greece and Ireland.
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Is 40bn euros enough to save Spain’s banks?
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.
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Faisal Islam
A French downgrade is bad for Sarkozy and Germany
If rumours of a potential downgrade of France’s AAA credit rating are true, it is of huge significance to the eurozone’s fitful efforts at a long-lasting rescue, writes Economics Editor Faisal Islam.
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Faisal Islam
Euro-bazooka disarmed, here comes new Euro-bazooka 2.0
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam says the European Financial Stability Facility bailout fund is being “quietly forgotten” in favour of the European Stability Mechanism.
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Euro crisis could mean UK recession, says Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne warns Britain will “find it difficult to avoid a recession” if growth in Europe grinds to a halt, while France’s central banker says Europe faces “a true financial crisis”.
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Faisal Islam
The 1tr mark note – symbol of Germany’s fears
German politicians, reared on the cult of low debt and low inflation, fear that the European Central Bank is losing its Bundesbank DNA, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Don’t rely on ECB to solve euro crisis – Germany
As Germany says the European Central Bank does not have “unlimited firepower” to come to the aid of indebted countries, an economist tells Channel 4 News it must do.
