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How should Europe deal with a break-up of the euro?
With Greece in turmoil, Spanish banks under pressure and the future of the euro at stake, Channel 4 News looks at five approaches to managing a possible break-up of the single currency.
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Markets react to Spanish bank concerns
The FTSE 100 index opens 44 points down after Moody’s cuts the credit ratings of 16 Spanish lenders, including the UK arm of Banco Santander.
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Commissioners at odds over planning for Greek euro exit
Amid fears that Greece may be on the verge of leaving the euro, a senior EU commissioner tells Channel 4 News that there are no preparations for an exit.
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Greece sets election date and chooses caretaker leader
Greece sets the date for fresh elections next month and will form a caretaker government, after talks aimed at forming a coalition failed.
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Francois Hollande’s plane struck by lightning
As newly-inaugurated French President Francois Hollande makes his way to Berlin for his first foreign visit, he is forced to turn back after his plane is hit by lightning.
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Vultures circle Greece before bond deadline
Vulture funds who bought international Greek bonds at discounts are circling ahead of Tuesday’s deadline to repay a 436m note issued long before the name Greece became synonymous with “crisis”.
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Greek crisis: talks continue on Tuesday
Negotiations continue on Tuesday to resolve the turmoil in Greece. Despite little optimism that a coalition government will be formed, an influential adviser tells Channel 4 News that all is not lost.
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Foreign ministers debate Euro 2012 football boycott
EU foreign ministers under pressure to boycott the Euro 2012 football championships are meeting in Brussels after Kiev threatened to try former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for murder.
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Europe prepares for an ‘amicable divorce’
Europe’s governments and banks prepare the ground for a possible Greek exit of the euro, as politicians in Greece try to maintain the country’s position in the single currency.
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Greece in last ditch effort to form government
Voters enraged with austerity measures are preparing to vote again in June as Greece’s president looks set to fail in his eleventh hour bid to cobble together a coalition government.
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Spain rescues bank as spectre of Irish property crash looms
Spain partially nationalised banking giant Bankia SA after concerns about its real estate exposure in a scenario reminiscent of the Irish crisis following the 2008 implosion of Lehman Bros.
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Gain not pain: the end of austerity politics?
From Greece to France, from Britain to Italy, the message seems clear. Voters have had enough of the politics of austerity, enough of economic pain. But is there a realistic alternative?
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European crisis: where do we go from here?
With voters in Greece, France and Italy using elections to reject austerity, Channel 4 News looks at what happens next and whether a break-up of the eurozone is now on the cards.
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Francois Hollande is new French president
In an election that has galvanised the French electorate, Socialist candidate François Hollande becomes president of France after defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Merkel: Fiscal compact is non-negotiable
The German chancellor vows to work with France’s new socialist president-elect Francois Hollande but insists the fiscal compact that commits eurozone governments to austerity is non-negotiable.