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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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