Brother can you spare a Euro (Photo: Cathal McNaughton/REUTERS) Let’s just be blunt: The Eurozone’s bailout program has failed. It’s not solving the underlying causes of the European debt crisis; it ...
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The European debt crisis of the early 2010s created an image of a continent cleaved in two: The fiscally responsible core countries led by Germany versus the spendthrift southern periphery of Portugal ...
As contagion spreads in Europe, political and economic leaders continue to struggle to find a real solution. There is hope that the European Central Bank will announce Thursday that it will expand its ...
France’s attempt to bring its spiralling debt under control has sparked a political crisis that has seen off a series of prime ministers and left Europe’s second largest economy teetering on the brink ...
Europe's plan to boost defense spending by €800B ($874.8B) could drive interest rates and government debt levels higher, Dutch lawmaker Pieter Omtzigt told the Financial Times, warning that public ...
A common currency is a wise and important component of European integration and economic vitality. The euro was set up presciently, but its evolution in a sequence of crises now leaves it in a ...
MADRID • Officials across Europe scrambled Friday to speed measures aimed at easing the fears of investors even as borrowing costs in the euro zone's more frail countries flirted with new highs. The ...
The euro slid more than 1 percent to nearly an eight-month low. "We have the makings of a market crisis here," said Neil Mackinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital. Greece is struggling with ...
HSBC's global head of debt capital markets, Spencer Lake, talks to Euromoney about what the sovereign debt crisis means for European banks and companies. Global head of debt capital markets and ...
Global finance officials pledged Saturday to take bolder moves to confront a European debt crisis that threatens to plunge the world into another deep recession. But sharp disagreements about exactly ...
The European Union has already bailed out Greece and Ireland. Now, after Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates offered his resignation on Wednesday following parliament's rejection of his deficit- ...