Gary Gibbon
Theresa May seems to have tried to solve one big outstanding issue ahead of proper full negotiations: the future rights of EU citizens who reside in the UK and UK citizens who are living in the EU.
Gary Gibbon
Does she really want to first hear about the UK’s negotiating position at round a table with 26 other countries?
Jonathan Rugman
If Angela Merkel has her way, the euphoria in Athens about Sunday’s referendum result will prove short lived. There is a discernible hardening of attitudes in Berlin.
Gary Gibbon
Britain feels there’s a painless – in national interest terms – way to settle this whole budget business.
German politicians, reared on the cult of low debt and low inflation, fear that the European Central Bank is losing its Bundesbank DNA, blogs Faisal Islam.
Gary Gibbon
When your PM comes away from a summit intended to sort out problems talking about “contingency planning” for some kind of Eurozone disaster you get the impression things didn’t go too well. Political editor Gary Gibbon reports from the G20 in Cannes
Gary Gibbon
There are reports from Reuters about the eurozone thinking it might be better to force a default on the banks over Greek debt, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports from Athens as the Greek debt crisis fuels further global pleas for concerted action from Europe’s political leaders.
The introduction of a eurobond would solve the eurozone debt crisis, blogs Faisal Islam – and would lead to “the phase fiscalisation of Europe”.