Blog posts tagged "greece"

May 17, 2012 9:47 am 9 Comments

I see five types of euro-related blackmail going on that will determine Greece's fate in the eurozone. What might be called "Drachmail".

May 15, 2012 9:44 pm 3 Comments

As Greece heads towards rerun elections, Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam considers whether Europe is heading for a stormy political and economic earthquake

May 9, 2012 10:51 am 10 Comments

As the Greek stock market tumbles are the politicians now seeking to form a government say they will defy the EU, but can they do that? Faisal Islam reports from Athens.

April 21, 2012 7:51 pm 18 Comments

"I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world to make Britain competitive to bring jobs to Britain."

February 20, 2012 5:35 pm 6 Comments

I have just spoken to the Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager, on his way in to today's euro group meeting. Mr de Jager's comments to me in English and some in Dutch made just before caused a marked popping of the europhoria bubble and a sharp move in the foreign exchange markets.

February 15, 2012 9:29 pm 16 Comments

As the Greek president hits back at criticisms of his country from the EU, it looks like the Greek deal could be unravelling.

February 13, 2012 9:12 pm 9 Comments

Greece has voted in favour of the EU/IMF austerity package. But why is Germany pushing stability throughout Europe - and what is it hoping to achieve?

February 11, 2012 11:39 am 6 Comments

Greece is being cauterised. The EU, ECB, and others have prepared the ground for Greece to be detached from the eurozone. Greece now has a horrible choice to make, says Channel 4 News economics editor Faisal Islam.

December 7, 2011 7:02 pm 11 Comments

Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam says the European Financial Stability Facility bailout fund is being "quietly forgotten" in favour of the European Stability Mechanism.

November 12, 2011 12:26 pm 12 Comments

German politicians, reared on the cult of low debt and low inflation, fear that the European Central Bank is losing its Bundesbank DNA, blogs Faisal Islam.