Greek crisis: crunch time
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
As the BT Tower restaurant reopens for the first time in 35 years, the company’s chief executive Gavin Patterson says falling out of the EU would be bad for his business and Britain.
Wellington defeated Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo 200 years ago today. The British celebrate it as a turning-point in European history – but how do the French now regard the event?
The big debate now is over a renegotiation which will be followed by a giant safety valve for backbench discontent: their longed-for referendum.
The Greek crisis ramped up a gear last night when, at the start of supposed “last chance” talks in Brussels, EU negotiators told the Greek delegation that “negotiations were over”.
Some close to the PM believe he is already leaning towards the lenient approach pioneered by Harold Wilson: letting ministers keep their jobs while they campaign on opposing side in the referendum.
A group comprising dozens of Conservative MPs is poised to campaign against Britain’s EU membership if David Cameron fails to secure radical reform.
While Tsipras, Varoufakis and their negotiators have been trying to get the country’s debt reduced via the IMF and ECB, Zoe Konstantopoulou has been working to get it declared invalid.
The break-up of the Eurozone will lead to the sort of “nationalisms” seen in the run up to the Second World War, Greece’s top negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos tells Channel 4 News.
There may be a technical get-out clause that allows Greece to wrap its four repayment dates to the IMF this month into one, but the IMF’s own assessment is correct: Greece can’t pay.
Britain voting to leave the EU “would be a disastrous message of European weakness”, according to the chairman of Germany’s foreign affairs committee.
Nick Clegg is among 89 European Union politicians and other senior figures who have been banned from entering Russia, according to a confidential Russian “stop list”.
David Cameron begins his whistle-stop tour to meet European leaders, as he begins talks on the “substantive” changes he wants ahead of the UK’s referendum on EU membership.
David Cameron says Britain is “not happy with the status quo” in the EU, so what changes is he seeking as he prepares for a referendum?
David Cameron prepares for talks with the European Commission president as he continues his “charm offensive” for EU reform.