Riot police fire tear gas in Athens as clashes break out in the first general strike since the new coalition took power. In Spain, anti-austerity protests threaten to tear the country apart.
Jon Snow
The UK positions itself between Europe and the US, but an Italian journalist warns that the British should prepare for the possibility that its neighbours may emerge from the eurozone crisis stronger.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow has been to Sienna to find out what politicians, academics and journalists from around Europe think of the euro crisis – and each other.
If Spain accepts the humiliation of some outside oversight, ECB President Mario Draghi may have come up with an offer that allows the Eurozone to stagger through the all-important German elections next year.
Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, calls for more time to implement tough spending cuts and reforms, ahead of talks on its bailout.
A town mayor nicknamed the “modern Robin Hood” is beginning a three-week march in support of anti-austerity campaigners. So who is Spain’s new cult hero?
Jon Snow
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.
The future of the euro is under the spotlight again, as EU officials visiting Greece cast doubt on its ability to repay its debts and Spain sees its borrowing costs soar.
Worries that Greece may soon be bankrupt and Spain will need a full-scale bailout send the euro sliding and Spanish bond yields soaring to a euro-record high of 7.52 per cent.
Spain’s troubled banking sector secures a 30bn euro bailout following an emergency meeting of eurozone finance ministers.
As David Cameron raises the prospect of a referendum on the EU, Channel 4 News looks at how Britain’s relationship with the continent may change.
Gary Gibbon
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.
Gary Gibbon
Angela Merkel concedes. Gary Gibbon wonders what she will get in return?
A surprise deal between eurozone countries is struck at a Brussels summit allowing bail-outs to directly support distressed banks, rather than making national governments taking on the burden.
Gary Gibbon
Don’t expect any great gestures from Angela Merkel at the EU summit, says Gary Gibbon.