Jon Snow
Wake up! Greek debt is NOT a bore
Jon Snow on how the Greek financial crisis has the potential to affect every man, woman and child in the UK.
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Greek mood changes as more austerity looms
“Shame seems to have been replaced by an almost bloody-minded determination not to accept any more pain”. Jonathan Rugman on the mood in Athens
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Jon Snow
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Faisal Islam
DSK’s difficulties will matter as Europe’s paymasters opt for increasingly harsh austerity
Our Economics Editor on how DSK’s absence from the International Monetary Fund may be bad news for Greece – and lead to more austerity in the eurozone.
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Faisal Islam
The EU wants to help – whether Ireland wants it or not
Our Economics Editor reports from Brussels on the negotiations over helping Ireland out of its economic crisis. But it looks as if they will wait for the arrival of George Osborne to clinch the deal.
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Faisal Islam
Courts could have a role in Irish economic crisis
Our Economics Editor says a German attempt to ensure that “financial fatcats” share the burden of dealing with credit excess has inadvertently made the Irish crisis even more toxic.
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Faisal Islam
The Euro awaits financial rescue
Team Europe: Financial Rescue, is what today’s events in Brussels were supposed to be. But tonight EU finance ministers are facing a race against time to have a package of support measures to underpin the euro before major markets open tonight. After acting too late on Greece, other indebted European nations started to feel the…