Blog posts tagged "Eurozone"

May 22, 2012 7:02 pm No Comments

The government is wrestling with a package of growth measures it would like to announce before the Summer recess. There are internal battles over the scale of all this and some of the content.

May 17, 2012 4:59 pm 9 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the less than positive reaction to David Cameron's interventions on Europe.

May 16, 2012 6:23 pm 4 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on David Cameron's warning of a eurozone break-up.

January 12, 2012 7:56 pm 5 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon on the pressure David Cameron was (and remains) under from his eurosceptic backbenchers over the Eurozone crisis.

December 9, 2011 9:54 am 8 Comments

A European Comission source tells Gary Gibbon that that the UK is deluded to think that with the 17 going it alone they wouldn't - potentially joined by others - be operating a single market within the single market.

December 7, 2011 10:53 am 4 Comments

Imagine the scene: it is midnight in Brussels on Thursday night. Word reaches Washington that the entire euro deal is hanging in the balance because David Cameron is wielding his veto until he gets some asymmetrical guarantee that protects the City of London. David Cameron could expect a rocket from President Obama that would put the big bazooka to shame.

December 6, 2011 6:00 pm 6 Comments

David Cameron is clear that he can't stand in the way of the 17 Eurozone countries trying to sort themselves out in Brussels on Thursday/Friday. He's also clear that he can't come home on Friday with nothing to show for his acquiescence in a treaty change. His backbenchers will be "checking his bags at customs" one senior Tory said. How to square that?

December 5, 2011 6:09 pm 1 Comment

After the Merkel/Sarkozy press conference we have an outline of the Brussels deal and you get the impression that Germany has pretty well got its way over France.

November 9, 2011 6:02 pm 6 Comments

It's not very democratic, but "pooled sovereignty" is the order of the day as eurozone leaders wrestle to contain the Italian debt crisis. Political editor Gary Gibbon reports.

November 4, 2011 2:55 pm 9 Comments

When your PM comes away from a summit intended to sort out problems talking about "contingency planning" for some kind of Eurozone disaster you get the impression things didn't go too well. Political editor Gary Gibbon reports from the G20 in Cannes