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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2020
    Martin Sandbu
    Spain’s proposed recovery fund has irrefutable merits

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

  • 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    

  • 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 pandemic
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
    Wolfgang Münchau
    Go-it-alone ‘coronabonds’ are worth the risk

    Nine countries can make a stand for sharing the fiscal burden of the pandemic

  • Thursday, 26 March, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    EU leaders clash over coronavirus response

    Leaders fail to settle on proposals for upcoming Eurogroup talks

  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Eurozone leaders should use their existing tools

    “Coronabonds” are a good idea but the bloc can tap its existing rescue fund

  • Sunday, 22 March, 2020
    Wolfgang Münchau
    Europe needs a new scale of stimulus — and cash not credit

    Direct payments should be made to citizens and companies

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