The ECB is to double its capital base to cope with 'credit risk' stemming from the eurozone debt crisis, paving the way for direct action to shore up the Spanish debt markets if necessary. 17 Dec 2010 Germany has refused to give any ground on Europe's rescue machinery despite the escalating political and economic crisis across much of the eurozone periphery. 16 Dec 2010 Europe's debt woes have moved closer to the core of monetary union after Standard & Poor's threatened to downgrade Belgium over the failure of Flemings and Walloons to form a government. 15 Dec 2010 The EU’s Franco-German "Directoire" and the European Central Bank have between them ruled out all plausible solutions to the eurozone’s debt crisis. 12 Dec 2010 Wikileak cables from the US embassy in Zimbabwe allege that President Robert Mugabe's family and the central bank governor are involved in the illegal smuggling of diamonds from the Marange fields. 10 Dec 2010 Agreement in Washington on a fresh fiscal package has set off dramatic rise in yields of US Treasuries and bonds across the world, threatening to short-circuit any benefits of stimulus. 08 Dec 2010 Iceland has finally emerged from deep recession after allowing its currency to plunge and washing its hands of private bank debt, prompting an intense the debate over whether Ireland might suffer less damage if adopted the same strategy. 08 Dec 2010 Others may gripe about barriers in China but Anglo-Dutch group AkzoNobel is minting euros supplying the greatest housing and infrastructure boom the world has ever seen. 06 Dec 2010 The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trade trades for 2011. This is a new twist. 05 Dec 2010 Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was expected to open the way for a third blast of bond purchases in a 60 Minutes interview, but any such move is likely to face resistance from Fed hawks and criticism in Congress. 05 Dec 2010 The European Central Bank has rebuffed calls for mass purchases of southern European bonds, despite growing pressure. 02 Dec 2010 As Europe's debt crisis spreads ever wider, the EU authorities are coming under intense pressure to move beyond piecemeal rescues and resort to radical action on a nuclear scale. 01 Dec 2010 The EU-IMF rescue for Ireland has failed to restore to confidence in the eurozone debt markets, leading instead to a dramatic surge in bond yields across half the currency bloc. 29 Nov 2010 Desperate moments call for desperate measures. In June 1940, the British War Cabinet led by Winston Churchill offered a total national merger to a shattered France. 29 Nov 2010 The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. 26 Nov 2010 German plans to push for bondholder haircuts in Europe as soon as next year have triggered a surge in default risk on European bank debt and set off further flight from Spanish, Portuguese and Irish bonds. 25 Nov 2010 Borrowing costs for Portugal and Spain have surged to danger levels on fears that Europe's leaders are losing political control of the Irish crisis and have yet to agree on a coherent plan to tackle the eurozone's deeper debt woes. 23 Nov 2010 The Portuguese seemed baffled - and pained - that investors should link their country in any way with Greece or Ireland. I am afraid they must come to terms very soon with some unpleasant facts. 22 Nov 2010 Ireland's Fianna Fail leaders must rue the day they ever allowed Patrick Honohan to take charge of the Irish central bank. 19 Nov 2010 Europe will raise interest rates and withdraw lending support for banks despite the eurozone debt crisis, even if this risks pushing Ireland, Portugal and Spain into deeper trouble. 18 Nov 2010 Irish central bank governor Patrick Honohan has said he "absolutely" expects the country to accept a bail-out worth “tens of billions” of euros from the EU and IMF. 18 Nov 2010 A squad of inspectors from the EU and IMF will arrive in Dublin on Thursday to go through the books of the Irish banking system and prepare the way for a likely rescue of at least €80bn (£68bn). 17 Nov 2010 Greece's eurozone bail-out starts to unravel as Austria suspends aid contributions over failure to comply with rescue terms. 16 Nov 2010 It is the ECB that should be printing money on a mass scale to purchase government debt, not the US Federal Reserve. 14 Nov 2010 America is a resilient nation, with far healthier demographics than China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy or Russia. The storm will blow over. 07 Nov 2010Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for a quarter century, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London.
LATEST FROM AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
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AkzoNobel strikes rich in China, led by Dulux dog
China's credit bubble on borrowed time as inflation bites
Bernanke’s QE3 faces resistance
ECB bows to German veto on bond purchases
EMU requires 'nuclear response'
Contagion strikes Italy as Ireland bail-out fails to calm markets
Germany faces awful choice as Spain wobbles
EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself
German haircut demands fuel crisis
Spain and Portugal under fire as bond spreads hit record
Portugal next as EMU's Máquina Infernal keeps ticking
Patrick Honohan: Ireland's prophet and saviour
ECB tightens screw on Ireland, Portugal, Spain
Ireland set to tap €80bn loan as it opens door to IMF mission
Ireland opens door to IMF mission
Greek rescue frays amid Irish crisis
Europe stumbles blindly towards its 1931 moment
America will survive the errors of Bernanke's trigger-happy Fed
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