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Eurozone leaders have reached an agreement to provide an 86bn euro bailout to keep the near-bankrupt Greece in the single currency.

Eurozone finance ministers approve reform proposals by Greece – including measures to combat tax evasion and fuel smuggling – in support of its application for a four-month extension of its bailout.

He was elected to renegotiate Greek’s international bailout. But Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is just as famous for the way he talks about economics. Here are some of his best quotes.

In the cold light of day – the morning after the night before – are Greek voters thinking more soberly about what the future now holds? Jon Snow speaks to people on the streets of Athens to find out.

After four years of economic sacrifices, political turmoil and mass protests, Greece is set for parliamentary elections this Sunday which could see another eurozone crisis.

Protesters burned effigies of EU leaders and brought rush hour traffic to a stop as they protest austerity and a planned EU-US free trade deal.

Riot police clash with protesters in Barcelona after a raid on squatters – and demonstrators plan to hit the streets against anti-demo laws – what’s going on in Spain?

Britain’s new £1.7bn EU bill has given the UK “1.7 billion very good reasons to seek a different kind of relationship”, says Tory Eurosceptic MEP Daniel Hannan.

Responding to the EU demand for an extra £1.7bn from the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron retorts that if people think he is going to pay up, “they’ve got another thing coming”.

News that UK house prices are soaring echoes economist Thomas Piketty’s warning that in the west we can now earn more by owning things than by working. Will the social fabric disintegrate as a result?

US president Barack Obama says it would be “hard to imagine” that it would be in Britain’s interests to leave the EU, and hints that the US would prefer Scotland not to vote for independence.

Ahead of the European elections in May, a new survey reveals that young people in the UK feel disengaged from the European Union. But why are we so uninterested?

George Osborne emphasises Tory determination to reform the European Union, saying Europe is at risk of falling behind Asia’s economic titans.

City AM Editor Allister Heath, who provoked a diplomatic spat by calling France a failed socialist experiment, says President Hollande is doing too little, too late to kick-start the French economy.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicts the UK’s GDP will move ahead of France by 2018, then leapfrog Germany by 2030.