Smart Reads 15 April 2015
Can Greece’s leftwing prime minister avoid the disaster of a debt default and exit from the euro by ditching the diehard radicals of his ruling Syriza party? The arduous and potentially perilous...
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Live: Mario Draghi’s press conference
The European Central Bank's governing council is meeting against a backdrop of an improving eurozone economy. The ECB kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low 0.05 per cent and its deposit...
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Despite being accused of naivety in his foreign policy, Barack Obama is showing qualities associated with Henry Kissinger – the arch-realist of US diplomacy, writes Ed Luce Whether by design or...
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Lagarde, the blame game and Greece
Christine Lagarde made headlines on Friday saying in a German press interview that Grexit was “a potential.” Coming from the head of the International Monetary Fund, her words rightly caused a stir –...
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ECB live: Draghi’s press conference
Welcome to our live coverage of the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's press conference. While we are not expecting quite the same excitement as six weeks ago when a protester jumped out...
View ArticleSmart Reads 15 June 2015
Greece cannot lose by rejecting this week’s final offer from international creditors – and leaving the eurozone would achieve a better outcome for its economy, argues Wolfgang Münchau Foreign...
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Some of the Greek proposals for saving money
Greek bailout negotiators have come up with a set of revenue-raising projections for 2015 and 2016 that troubles even the most optimistic Athens economist. The leaked eight-page proposal published by...
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Live – Greek eurozone crisis summit
Eurozone leaders are scheduled to hold an emergency summit on Monday evening to try to reach a last-ditch deal with Greece on a new bailout and to prevent it from defaulting on debts that are due at...
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Live – Greek crisis negotiations
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras flew to Brussels on Wednesday morning to try to salvage a bailout deal amid increasing signs of unease among his nation's creditors over the compromise offer he...
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Live – Greece crisis negotiations
After another day of negotiations the Greek government has failed to reach an agreement with its bailout monitors - the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central...
View ArticleSmart Reads 26 June 2015
For all their ideological differences, austerity-loving UK chancellor George Osbourne and his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis share one political imperative: sparing pensioners and older workers...
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Live – Greece imposes capital controls
Global equities, the euro and German Bund yields are all sharply lower as markets react to the imposition of capital controls in Greece. Greek banks are closed this morning, triggering long queues at...
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Angela Merkel is taking her revenge on Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras by insisting there can be no more talks on the country’s debt crisis until after its referendum on the bailout on Sunday...
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Live – Greece votes no, what next?
After delivering a decisive No vote in Sunday's referendum, in which voters backed Athens’ call to reject a compromise with international creditors, Greece is facing the prospect of even greater...
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