Germany’s Angela Merkel has said the eurozone should not rest on the idea of eurobonds as the miracle remedy for the continent’s debt crisis.
Angela Merkel and David Cameron are due to kiss and make up after ‘selfish’ London made comments about Germany being bossy about the euro crisis.
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/ 17 November 2011
Debt ceilings, double dips, currency volatility and Walmart — the <em>Mail & Guardian</em> rounds up the business highlights of 2011.
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/ 17 November 2011
Italian clothes company Benetton has pulled a photo montage showing the pope kissing a leading imam from its new global ad campaign, Unhate.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged her party to set aside misgivings about the euro and accept integration as a solution to the debt crisis.
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/ 9 November 2011
Italian borrowing costs reached breaking point after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s insistence on elections instead of an interim government.
Germany and France have issued Greece with an ultimatum that will see it receive no more aid until it decides on whether it will stay in the eurozone.
Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, while Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin came in at No. 2.
European leaders summoned Greece’s prime minister to the French Riviera to restore calm ahead of a G20 summit after his shock call for a vote.
Greece’s Papandreou has won the backing of his Cabinet to push ahead with a referendum on an EU debt bailout deal. World leaders are not convinced.
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/ 23 October 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Ban funds to fight the debt crisis.
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/ 22 October 2011
Europe has piled pressure on banks to write off vast Greek debts as leaders struggle to come up with a lasting answer for its credit crisis.
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/ 14 October 2011
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have drawn up a package to counter debt crisis — but refuse to reveal details.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says Europe must "have resolved its problems" by the time G20 leaders meet in November.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will thrash out differences with French President Nicolas Sarkozy over how to use the eurozone’s financial fire power.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has held talks in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy on a crunch weekend for the European debt crisis.
You know as a country these days that you are in some kind of financial crisis when Michael Lewis shows up.
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/ 29 September 2011
Angela Merkel has won her toughest challenge yet as German chancellor by pushing through changes to a rescue fund for the eurozone debt crisis.
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/ 14 September 2011
China and the US have urged Europe’s leaders to prevent the eurozone debt mess from spreading — which is now also threatening Italy.
Germany’s top court will decide on the legality of Europe’s rescue fund in a landmark ruling with major implications for future aid.
Angela Merkel faces the biggest challenge to her leadership with traditionally loyal allies openly criticising her approach to the euro zone crisis.
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed on the need for "concerted action" to spur global growth.
Angela Merkel has opposed eurobonds, which would pool the 17 eurozone nations’ debt, but left the door open to a change in policy at a later date.
France and Germany unveiled far-reaching plans for closer eurozone integration, but maintained a common euro bond issuance would have to wait.
This week German Chancellor Angela Merkel quashed hopes of finding a lasting solution for Greece at the crucial summit of European leaders.
The White House went all out to underscore the theme of friendship at Tuesday’s state dinner for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
President Barack Obama has welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House, as US pageantry masked key differences between the allies.
Germany has laid out its plans to abandon nuclear power in the next decade, while keeping its economy competitive and achieving its climate goals.
Plans have been laid for a complete nuclear shutdown in just 10 years, writes <b>Helen Pidd</b>.
Germany has announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants by 2022, after the disaster in Japan.
Fears over Japan’s nuclear crisis triggered a poll debacle for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in its German heartland and a Greens triumph.
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/ 2 November 2010
It’s the activism backlash and its high priests are creating fantasy First Worlds to live in, writes <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.