euro crisis

BusinessReuters | 2012-11-11 13:32:00

The parliamentary vote is a test of confidence in Prime Minister

ECB's Honohan says bond plan will silence doubters

BusinessPadraic Halpin | 2012-09-07 12:52:00

"Anybody who had any doubts that the ECB was prepared to bring the tools needed ... any doubts must be removed now," Patrick Honohan, who...

No rest for debt weary Greeks

BusinessIan Traynor | 2012-09-07 00:00:00

Greece's eurozone creditors are demanding that the government in Athens introduces a six-day working week.

Finnish and klaar with the euro

BusinessGraeme Wearden | 2012-08-10 12:39:00

Finland should be feeling on top of the world. Twenty years after a desperate banking crisis sparked a deep recession, this most northerly member of...

Bankers happy to play Nero as Europe burns

BusinessSimon Jenkins | 2012-08-03 11:19:00

He sang of the Sack of Ilium and roasted Christians at the stake to light up his party. The people were taxed to pay for his extravagance, but he...

An island of calm in the euro storm

BusinessLisa Steyn | 2012-07-06 11:24:00

At the eye of the eurozone storm rests the small but prosperous country of Switzerland. Geographically, it is slap bang in the middle of the turmoil,...

Aid to Africa dwindles as euro crisis rages on

BusinessLarry Elliott | 2012-07-06 07:21:08

The flow of aid from Europe to the world’s poorest countries fell by €700-million last year, the first drop for almost a decade, as the...

Another week, another euro summit

BusinessHeather Stewart | 2012-06-24 06:50:00

It gets worse: SA economy headed for troubled waters

BusinessNickolaus Bauer | 2012-06-14 08:00:00

The prospect of financial gloom morphing into outright doom has been driven home by warnings from economists, as well as from the finance ministry...

Global economy US, Europe, Asia

EconomySapa-AP | 2012-06-04 14:34:00

The US economy, the world's largest, had a third straight month of feeble job growth in May. High-flying economies in China, India and Brazil are...

Europe's leaders face testing month of crisis-fighting

BusinessLuke Baker | 2012-05-31 16:13:00

After two and a half years battling a debt crisis that has morphed into an economic crisis and now one of politics too, they face four weeks of...

Europe's leaders urged to opt for growth

BusinessLarry Elliott | 2012-05-25 00:29:00

Europe’s leaders met on Wednesday for crisis talks to rescue the euro amid a warning from the West’s leading economic think-tank that...

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