European Central Bank Articles

David Cameron was not the only one to visit Brussels this week for last minute talks with Europe’s leaders ahead of the European Council meeting. Trades Union Congress general secretary Frances O’Grady was also in town on Wednesday, seeing European Commission...

So the dust settles after the prime minister’s rout at the European council. Thanks in no small part to David Cameron's astonishingly amateurish attempt to block Jean-Claude Juncker, the former Luxembourg prime minister is secure as next European commission president....

‘We are not short of ideas – what is missing is the political will’. These words, by European Commission vice-president Joaquín Almunia, captured perfectly the mood at yesterday’s Policy Network conference on the aftermath of the European elections. More than by just...

So the grandfather, so the grandson. In 1967, George Papandreou, was prime minister of Greece. He threw in the towel as political and economic instability plunged Greece into chaos. Now it is the turn of his grandson, also George Papandreou, to offer to leave office....