Jon Snow
An election day like no other?
Although the media did not seem able to land a finger on Ukip leader Nigel Farage in the run-up to Thursday’s poll, it could be the “none of the above” faction that comes out on top.
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Jon Snow
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Jon Snow
The Xstrata factor
Globalisation has brought us all many benefits and not a few curses. Which will the biggest mining-commodities merger in history bring us?
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Alex Thomson
Barajas: overlit, overheated, underused, underwhelming
Barajas Airport itself, one giant folly to Euro-borrowing on a grand scale against a dream that has never come true. Quite probably never could.
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Jon Snow
Sun-kissed Greece does not feel on the brink
My head is a spinning confusion of Greek images. Infected by covering the most recent Greek elections earlier this summer, we decided at short notice to dash down here for a week in the sun.
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Faisal Islam
“It could be a lot worse…”: Osborne’s five GDP shuffles
Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on his meeting with George Osborne – and the five key areas where the chancellor has ‘refined’ his views on the economy.
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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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Faisal Islam
Panic averted, but chronic Greek pain continues
Faisal Islam blogs from Athens on the implications of a dramatic Greek election.
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Jon Snow
Dreams and nightmares in Athens
“The chanting was amongst the most obscene I’ve ever heard. In short, Angela Merkel was being invited to put the entire Euro crisis up her posterior.”
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FactCheck Q&A: how much will the Spanish bailout cost the UK?
Spain may be the latest European country heading for a massive bailout. That might mean Britain has to pay. FactCheck wonders how much.
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Faisal Islam
Hollande and Merkel dance around the Greece lightning
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
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Faisal Islam
Chancellor: We have completely won the argument on austerity
“I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world to make Britain competitive to bring jobs to Britain.”
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Faisal Islam
Spain: the Brussels budget ‘suicide pact’
As Easter approaches in Andalusia, Faisal Islam visits the Eurozone’s biggest headache.
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Faisal Islam
Eurogroup therapy for Greece
Channel 4 News Economic Editor Faisal Islam ruminates on the latest Greek bailout deal secured at a meeting of Eurozone ministers
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Faisal Islam
Eurozone reaches its Lehman moment as Germany ‘insults’ Greece
As the Greek president hits back at criticisms of his country from the EU, it looks like the Greek deal could be unravelling.