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The world's leading economic powers said they would not stump up more cash to fight Europe's debt crisis until the eurozone members increase their own contributions, in a move that piles pressure on this week's Brussels summit.
27 Feb 2012
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Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, the part-nationalised British banks, may access the European Central Bank's three-year, low interest loans facility this week, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
27 Feb 2012
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IMF managing director Christine Lagarde conceded there may be no agreement by April from its members to raise $500bn (£378bn) to help Europe fight its debt crisis because you can't do it by "flicking your fingers".
27 Feb 2012
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David Blair reports from Athens on a nation that eyes the future without hope.
26 Feb 2012
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The world's leading economies will not stump up more cash to fight Europe's debt crisis until the eurozone members increase their own contributions, in a move that piles pressure on this week's Brussels summit.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe world's leading economic powers have said they will not stump up more cash to fight Europe's debt crisis until the eurozone members increase their own contributions. Here is the G20 communique text in full.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe Government cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or spending.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsAnother week, another euro "solution". According to last week's plan, by 2020 the ratio of Greek national debt to GDP will be down to 120.5pc. You don't really need to know much more to see that we are in cloud cuckoo land.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsSpain's new prime minister has looked into the abyss and recoiled.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsBritain and other leading economies are not ready to fund another eurozone bailout, UK Chancellor George Osborne said on Sunday.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsChancellor says extra funds will not be handed over until euro countries commit resources, as ministers meet at G20 summit.
26 Feb 2012
| CommentsUS Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has urged European leaders not to rest on the recent progress they've made in tackling a crisis that remains "deeply consequential" to the prospects of a global economic recovery.
25 Feb 2012
| CommentsGermany’s interior minister called for Greece to leave the eurozone on Saturday as hopes that the world’s richest countries would stump up more cash to help the International Monetary Fund fight Europe’s debt crisis faded.
25 Feb 2012
| CommentsSince last week's eurozone "grand summit", the headlines have been positive and, in the official photos anyway, the main players appear to be smiling. As such, the global equity rally goes on.
25 Feb 2012
| CommentsOutgoing World Bank chief Robert Zoellick has warned that Greece's latest bailout would merely buy it time, adding that a European recession would hamper crucial reforms needed to lift the area out of the crisis.
25 Feb 2012
| CommentsAthens launches its bond swap with private investors to slash €107bn of debt, while the German finance minister warns that Greece may need further financial help.
24 Feb 2012
| CommentsAthens has launched the biggest sovereign bond restructuring in history to cut its debt by €107bn - amid warnings from Germany that even if it were successful, there were 'no guarantees' Greece could be rescued.
24 Feb 2012
| CommentsAthens has launched a bond swap with private investors to slash €107bn of the country's debt. Here is the Greek statement in full.
24 Feb 2012
| CommentsAthens is preparing to launch a bond swap with private investors to slash €107bn of the country's debt. Here is the Eurogroup's statement in full.
24 Feb 2012
| CommentsTop stories: Lloyds, ECB's cash line, Glencore and the week ahead.
24 Feb 2012
| CommentsGermany's ruling parties are to introduce a resolution in parliament blocking any further boost to the EU’s bail-out machinery, vastly complicating Greece’s rescue package and risking a major clash with the IMF.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe President of the ECB warns that the eurozone is recovering "very slowly", while the EC cuts its 2012 growth forecasts and the Greek Parliament approves debt legislation to help push through a €107bn debt writedown.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsIn 2008 in the Telegraph, Margaret Thatcher’s former foreign affairs adviser, (now Lord) Charles Powell, recounted how German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sought to win the friendship of the Iron Lady in the 1980s when the two were in power.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsEuropean and Greek leaders have heralded their €130bn bail-out agreement as a momentous victory. Two days later, few others seem to think so.
23 Feb 2012
| CommentsThe eurozone economy is heading into its second recession in just three years, while the wider European Union will stagnate, the EU said, warning that the area has yet to break its vicious cycle of debt.
23 Feb 2012
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