Faisal Islam
Cyprus: Leaving Larnaca searching for Eurozone’s FDR
The economic crisis in Cyprus is leading to a number of flights. Economics Editor Faisal Islam sees a parallel with the economic landscape of America in the 1930s.
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Gary Gibbon
Europe, the budget: what’s changed since November?
David Cameron’s striking a softer tone in this round of EU budget negotiations, knowing that shouting about the veto too much would kick off a round of hostile reactions from European capitals.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron speech: Germany’s not clapping
As David Cameron delivers a speech which could define his era as prime minister, Political Editor Gary Gibbon senses it leaves Germany rather nonplussed.
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Faisal Islam
View from Berlin: Bluffing Britain losing friends
The presumption in Germany is that David Cameron will back down. If this is wrong, Britain could end up leaving the EU.
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Gary Gibbon
Ken Clarke’s on board; the Dutch sound nervous
Gary Gibbon is in the snowy Netherlands to see if David Cameron can expect an equally chilly reception for his much-heralded speech on Europe due this Friday.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Why the Americans want us to stay in the EU
Euroscpetics may say that Britain can rely on the US if it moves away from the EU. But that’s not how it looks from across the pond.
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Jon Snow
New year, new world order?
2013 is likely to be lucky for some countries but filled with foreboding for others – will this be a year in which the world order takes another shunt?
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Faisal Islam
Super Mario: unemployment the unavoidable price
Is unemployment a price worth paying for keeping the euro on the road? I put the question to ECB President Mario Draghi.
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Gary Gibbon
UK wants to smash Barosso’s piggy bank
Britain feels there’s a painless – in national interest terms – way to settle this whole budget business.
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Faisal Islam
General Motors is alive, as is Obama’s presidency
America faces a “fiscal nightmare” of tax rises and spending cuts, unless Republicans in the House of Representatives are willing to compromise.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory rebels not there yet – and there isn’t long left
With hours to go until the crucial EU budget vote, Tory rebels are losing hope that they will get enough support – and Ed Miliband joining the cause did not help, as Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports from Westminster.
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Gary Gibbon
Is that the grumpy old muppet in the Boadicea wig?
David Cameron promises to get tough on a veto of this year’s EU budget.
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Jon Snow
Why Spain is not Greece
If you spend time in the Spanish region of Andalusia – awash with its Moorish inheritance, olive groves, and wineries – there are moments when it is easy to lose sight of the incredible pace of Spain’s development in the three and a half decades since Franco died.
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Gary Gibbon
Brussels, Britain, Brittan and Bunting
Love for the European Union is thin on the ground as David Cameron prepares to meet fellow EU leaders.
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Faisal Islam
Draghi’s backdoor bailout of Spain
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.