NEWSNIGHT - Friday 21 May 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two
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Presented by Gavin Esler
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Tonight we are focussing on the future of the eurozone, and Britain's relationship to it.
David Cameron has held talks in Berlin today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on the second leg of his first European trip since becoming prime minister.
The meeting took place against against a backdrop of financial turmoil across Europe and calls for tighter regulation of markets to support the troubled euro.
However, after the talks Mr Cameron insisted that there was "no question" of him backing any treaty giving the EU more powers to shore up the eurozone.
Peter Marshall is in Berlin tonight to bring us the latest on that.
And Stephanie Flanders will be reporting from Brussels where EU finance ministers have started laying out new, tougher rules for their public finances.
Will their actions be enough to win back market confidence and get a handle on the debt crisis that is threatening the euro?
Gavin Esler will be talking to eminent economists including Joseph Stiglitz and Irwin Stelzer.
Plus, as the Lib-Con coalition settles in to the business of running the country we ask if we are seeing a realignment of the Liberal centre right and the redrawing of the party political map for a generation or more.
Two leading newspaper columnists - Andrew Rawnsley and Anne McElvoy - will be giving us their view.
Join Gavin at 10.30pm on BBC Two.
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