On 25 January 2015 Greece ushered in the New Year with the election of the leftist SYRIZA party to parliament. All eyes are now on Greece and her new Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, in hopes that he will compromise and continue...
The Scots’ usual response to George Osborne is that which he had to endure during his appearance at the Paralympics, yet on Tuesday he still went ahead and voiced his doubt about the viability of all the potential currenc...
During the past few weeks of financial turmoil, the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been in the spotlight of the international media. But what few reporters seem to remember is that this is an island divided in two. Th...
This is the week Greece finds out whether it will receive a new tranche of EU funds to help it pay its creditors. Or what that last week? Or maybe the week before. In fact, as a colleague pointed out to me earlier today; the of...
“The euro is much more than just a currency, it is a symbol of European integration in every sense of the word” Wim Duisenberg – former chief of the European Central Bank, 30th August 2001.
The financial situation in Europe is by no means simple. With Greece still recovering from a huge financial meltdown, the debt-ridden governments of both Italy and Spain look to be next in this financial apocalypse. Within the ...