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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Faisal Islam
Osborne has had a Thatcher handbag EU moment over Tobin Tax
So Berlusconi is off, possibly, but will it truly be the end of Bunganomics?
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Gary Gibbon
G20 – no big numbers agreed at Cannes
What of that big new boost to the firepower of the IMF that Britain was pushing for? It looks like The G20 managed to agree that finance ministers would have more meetings to think about it. Political editor Gary Gibbon reports from Cannes.
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Jon Snow
The gathering euro-avalanche
Heading to Brussels for today’s crucial eurozone summit, Jon Snow blogs that he cannot remember in his lifetime a financial crisis as bad as the present one.
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A bluffer's guide to this week's G8 summit
By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters. The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8…
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Needed: something to shake this summit up
Just off the PM’s plane in sunny Rome. Brown relaxed and on good form. The worst month of his premiership behind him? Though of course this could be his last G8, with election next year.