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GLOBAL ECONOMY
Feb 10, 2012
Eurozone dismisses Greek budget deal
Bail-out hopes dashed as finance ministers find €325m hole in package
Mohamed El-Erian
Deal faces sorry fate
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Feb 9, 2012
Germans concerned over Draghi liquidity offer
Bundesbank voices worries about lowering of ECB credit standards
Draghi attacks bankers over ECB fears
ECB action lowers euribor rates
From
GLOBAL ECONOMY
Feb 8, 2012
Investors debate Italy’s changing fortunes
Monti succeeds in restoring some credibility
Italy’s manufacturers find ‘small is good’ no more
Investors lured back to periphery debt
From
MARKETS
Feb 8, 2012
Investors lured back to periphery debt
Investors snap up wave of bond issues from Italy, Ireland and Spain
Debt investors regain appetite for Europe’s periphery
ECB action lowers euribor rates
From
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Feb 8, 2012
Debt investors regain appetite for Europe’s periphery
ECB measures have helped thaw corporate bond markets
Investors lured back to periphery debt
ECB action lowers euribor rates
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11:04pm
Why Greece and Portugal ought to go bankrupt
To ignore reality for another two years will be ruinous
Greece passes vote as violence erupts
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One hurdle down, but more ahead
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Feb 9, 2012
Germany and Europe: A very federal formula
Angela Merkel’s plans for a shift in power from EU members to Brussels would generate constitutional problems within Germany and worries among allies, writes Quentin Peel
From
COMMENT
Feb 10, 2012
False dawns and public fury: the 1930s are not so far away
Saving the euro is not the only priority, writes Martin Taylor
Mohamed El-Erian
Deal faces sorry fate
Germany and Europe
A very federal formula
Eurozone crisis
A deft way to buy time
Martin Wolf
Europe is stuck on life support
From
COMMENT
Feb 7, 2012
Eurozone crisis: A deft way to buy time
ECB chief Mario Draghi has helped hold off a credit crunch but deep economic and political problems remain
Portugal presses on with reforms
Belgium slips into recession
The A-List
Feb 7, 2012
Europe’s fiscal strategy is self-defeating
There are three ways to read the eurozone’s focus on austerity, writes Jean Pisani-Ferry
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WORLD
Jan 31, 2012
Portuguese debt looms over Europe
EU leaders may have to tackle problem in weeks not months
Wolfgang Munchau
from
COMMENT
Jan 29, 2012
Fiscal treaty could trigger a debt explosion
If Spain follows Greece and ignores what happened in Japan, a lengthy recession is likely
Global Insight
from
GLOBAL ECONOMY
Jan 30, 2012
Budget overlord will not solve eurozone woes
German plan is not a coherent response to what went wrong
Philip Stephens
from
COMMENT
Jan 26, 2012
Europe rests on Monti’s shoulders
Italy has returned to the centre of the world’s stage and Mario Monti’s fate may be Europe’s
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Jan 25, 2012
How to pull Italy and Spain back from the precipice
The ECB and EFSF could do what the ECB alone cannot, writes George Soros
From
GLOBAL ECONOMY
Feb 8, 2012
Merkel says Greece exit ‘not an issue’
German chancellor calls for tougher reforms
From
WORLD
Feb 2, 2012
China considering deeper involvement in EFSF
Wen says solution increasingly ‘urgent’ during Merkel visit
From
MARKETS
Feb 3, 2012
ECB tonic buys time for eurozone
As peripheral bond yields tumble, strategists ask will the debt rally last
From
WORLD
Feb 1, 2012
Spain poses six-pack rules challenge
Madrid unlikely to be able to achieve deficit targets
From
WORLD
Feb 1, 2012
Credit squeeze threatens eurozone recovery
Banks impose significantly harsher terms on loans
From
WORLD
Jan 31, 2012
Danish PM holds torch for centre-left
Thorning-Schmidt seeks increased infrastructure spending
From
WORLD
Feb 1, 2012
Belgium slips into recession
Country sees small fall in output during last quarter of 2011
From
UK
Jan 31, 2012
Cameron warns European leaders
PM seeks to assuage party annoyance over softer line at summit
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Jan 31, 2012
Eurozone jobless rate at euro-era high
Unemployment data show growing north-south divide in currency bloc
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Why Greece and Portugal ought to go bankrupt
To ignore reality for another two years will be ruinous