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  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why Brussels wants Mario Draghi to fix the EU’s competitiveness woes Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How an ex Goldman Sachs analyst plans to take over Greece’s leftwing opposition

    Ursula von der Leyen standing next to Mario Draghi
  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    Lorenzo Codogno
    Europe’s economic recovery effort should be smarter, not bigger

    A permanent centralised fiscal capacity and the creation of EU safe assets would be a good start

  • Thursday, 17 June, 2021
    Europe Express
    A road map to nowhere Premium content

    Eurozone struggles to salvage hopes for stalled Banking Union

    The Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt
  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Global InsightBen Hall
    Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron — the EU’s new power couple?

    Paris-Rome axis likely to become engine for integration after Angela Merkel bows out this year

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    EU faces barriers to boosting single currency’s global status

    Bloc yet to settle investor doubts about structure of eurozone despite weight provided by recovery fund

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Eurozone inflation, Zoom rides high, Mnuchin and Powell testify

    The cost of popular goods in the eurozone is rising despite negative inflation

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Eurozone finance ministers strike deal over bailout fund reform

    Eurogroup overcomes opposition from Italy and northern nations on financial backstop for ailing lenders

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    Eastern Europe
    Bulgaria joins Europe’s awkward squad

    Concern is growing in Brussels about Sofia’s tolerance of cronyism and corruption

  • Sunday, 5 July, 2020
    Wolfgang Münchau
    Will Angela Merkel save Europe?

    Solving the EU’s problems will take more than her coronavirus recovery plan

    Angela Merkel has not shown many moments of true leadership, and when she did, she took the decision unilaterally
  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
    EU economy
    Mário Centeno resignation triggers contest for eurogroup presidency

    Leadership of eurozone finance ministers up for grabs after Portugal’s finance minister steps down

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Franco-German rescue plan is a big step forward

    Other states should back bold response to the EU’s worst crisis

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a joint video news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin, Germany, May 18, 2020. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS
  • Monday, 18 May, 2020
    European Union
    Germany and France call for €500bn EU recovery fund

    Merkel-Macron initiative envisages commission borrowing on capital markets

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    Eurozone economy
    Lagarde urges eurozone to launch joint fiscal stimulus

    Economic hit of coronavirus risks exacerbating bloc’s divergence, ECB president warns

    Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2020
    Martin Sandbu
    The merits of Spain’s proposed recovery fund are irrefutable

    If there is going to be a common European fiscal response to the crisis, this is the form it should take

    Priest Andres Conde, 49, receives help from his twin sister Inma while donning personal protective equipment he received from a convent as they prepare food donations for distribution to needy families, during a lockdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ronda, southern Spain April 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2020
    Spain calls for €1.5tn EU recovery fund to ‘protect internal market’

    Economy minister Nadia Calviño tells the FT that richer countries should not be able to support their economies more generously

  • Sunday, 19 April, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How to secure the future of the eurozone

    Emmanuel Macron is right that without solidarity the single currency could fail    

    French President Emmanuel Macron attends a videoconference with French virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (unseen) on ongoing efforts to accelerate the development and access to vaccine and treatment against the coronavirus, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, April 16 2020. Yoan Valat/Pool via REUTERS
  • Friday, 17 April, 2020
    Emmanuel Macron
    Transcript: ‘We are at a moment of truth’ (French)

    The French president on the coronavirus crisis, European solidarity and the future of globalisation

  • Friday, 17 April, 2020
    Emmanuel Macron
    Transcript: ‘We are at a moment of truth’ (English)

    The French president on the coronavirus crisis, European solidarity and the future of globalisation

  • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
    Macron warns of EU unravelling without financial solidarity

    Member states have ‘no choice’ but to set up joint virus recovery fund, French president tells FT

  • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
    Eurozone faces economic strains as government debt piles up

    Single currency area’s debt-to-GDP ratio nears 100 per cent as borrowing swells 

  • Monday, 13 April, 2020
    Coronavirus
    Coronavirus crisis revives Franco-German relations

    Paris and Berlin worked together to broker emergency eurozone rescue package

  • Thursday, 9 April, 2020
    Eurozone strikes emergency deal on coronavirus rescue 

    Accord on emergency package leaves longer-term questions on burden sharing for recovery unresolved

  • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Eurozone ministers must strike coronavirus deal

    The ECB must work to protect the currency union at all costs

    French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire (R) speaks on the phone with Mario Centeno, the head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers during a break in a videoconference meeting of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers to discuss coronavirus response on April 7, 2020 at the French Economy ministry in Paris. - EU finance ministers hope to agree a coronavirus economic rescue package for the worst-hit member states on Tuesday, but will fall short of demands from beleaguered Spain and Italy. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
    Adam Tooze
    The eurozone’s ‘whatever it takes’ mantra has a problem

    EU squabbles are turning that famous defiant phrase into a platitude

    FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - MARCH 12: Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, speaks to the media following a meeting of the ECB governing board at ECB headquarters on March 12, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. The ECB is pursuing measures to counter the economic impact of the rapidly spreading coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases across Europe has reached 25,000. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2020
    European Union
    France proposes EU coronavirus rescue fund

    Finance minister calls for time-limited collective response to economic impact of crisis

    Bruno Le Maire at Greece’s finance ministry in Athens in February. The French finance minister on Wednesday said: ‘We should not be obsessed by the word coronabonds or eurobonds’
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