Reuters has just released the latest EU/IMF/ECB troika report – the first to fully account for the bond swap and its impact on Greek debt. ...

The eurozone chokes Spain....the fiscal compact in action? An unfortunate picture has been doing the rounds this morning of Jean-Claude Junc...

EU relations have become a pretty substantial source of contention in the French Presidential race. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande ha...

Open Europe has responded to the agreement between the Greek government and its private creditors which laid out how much and under what for...

This question can of course be filed under John Rentoul ’s ‘Questions to which the answer is No’ category, but there is a significant chanc...

Amid the last-minute efforts to finalise the details on the Greek debt swap, just a couple of thoughts on UK domestic politics vis-a-vis the...

The Greek Public Debt Management Agency put out an interesting press release (PR) yesterday. We won’t go over all of it, since it’s been he...

As we reported in yesterday's press summary , given that the recently signed 'fiscal treaty' will impact on the budgetary autono...

A leaked document from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) has been doing the rounds recently and has some rather alarming statist...

A few weeks ago Lord Owen, the former Foreign Minister, gave a speech, reworked for the Spectator here , in which he very eloquently set out...

A write up from our event from earlier today is now online, featuring a highly interesting panel of speakers including Jonathan Faull , Dire...

Just a quick post on the developments at what must be seen as the most mundane (if not pointless) EU summit on eurozone issues for some time...

Over on Conservativehome we have an article highlighting the importance of and looking at potential senarios for the next Conservative elec...

Ahead of today’s EU summit, Open Europe has published a new briefing arguing that the second Greek bailout is bad for Greece and bad for eur...

“I am not dangerous” said a grinning Francois Hollande as he arrived in London yesterday. The Socialist frontrunner to the presidency is...

That was the headline of an editorial in Tuesday's edition of Spanish business daily Cinco Días . The problem - slightly overlooked due...

The ECB held its second three year long term refinancing operation ( LTRO ) this morning. Overall 800 banks requested €529 bn in funding....

We'll get back with a take on today's €529 bn of loans by the ECB to 800 banks, via the so-called LTRO, soon. But first, something d...

The Irish government has just announced that it will hold a referendum on the euro fiscal compact. The Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he h...

A few interesting developments overnight and this morning in the eurozone. Specifically, S&P’s decision to put Greece into ‘selective d...

The picture on the left is not some random shot to illustrate excessive bureaucracy , it's literally the document setting out the detai...

We'd figured this one would cause confusion once a paper reported on it. This morning’s FT noted that RBS and Lloyd’s are considering b...

With the debate ahead of the Bundestag vote on approving the second bailout package for Greece due to get underway in 30 min or so (as ever ...