European monetary union
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Nils Pratley: Behind the verbal gymnastics, the eurozone economy sinks to its knees.
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2014 forecast cut to 0.8% from the 0.9% predicted three months ago as bank says it will reassess policy measures next year
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PMI, a good indicator of growth, sinks to 51.1 from October’s 52.1 leading to warnings of renewed contraction in new year
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Questions over whether Labour’s plans would have suffered from eurozone crisis and oil prices in same way – but Alastair Darling also expected private investment return
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European commission gives two countries until spring to deliver structural reforms and conform with stability and growth pact
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The Greek government is keen to trumpet the country’s improved economic outlook, as the country exits recession for the first time in six years. But is any improvement being felt by people on the ground?
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Juncker infrastructure plan offers too little, too late – but at least EC president recognises austerity is the problem
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Guardian Comment Network What Gordon Brown got right as prime minister
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Polish ambassador says David Cameron’s welfare proposals are unlikely to win backing from EU leaders
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Katie Allen: The ECB is eager to warn teenagers about inflation. But as price growth slows, that looks like yesterday’s scare story
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Labour increases pressure on Tories over government cuts after prime minister’s warning as Japan enters recession
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David Cameron: The G20 meeting in Brisbane made it clearer than ever to me that we in Britain must stick to our long-term economic plan
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PM says ‘red warning lights are flashing’ against a backdrop of instability and uncertainty, as G20 summit draws to a close
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The prime minister sees threats to Britain’s economy wherever he looks – from the eurozone to the risk of protectionism
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Business Leader: Could Italy be heading for an exit from the euro? It is no longer unthinkable
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Our correspondents around the European capitals report on parliaments in the grip of tumultuous change
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William Keegan: Germany was at the heart of the struggle between east and west. Now it is at the heart of one between growth and deflation
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Live coverage of growth figures from across the eurozone, which show France growing faster than expected and Germany narrowly dodged another recession.
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Economists warn that the eurozone remains weak, after Germany avoided recession but Italy suffered another contraction
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Hopes rise that the European Central Bank may opt for quantitative easing before Christmas to boost economic activity
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President tells TV channel: ‘The French would be merciless and they would be right’ if he ran again without reversing trend
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Europe’s core countries must unlock growth potential in their economies with rigorous programme of reform, says OECD
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NIESR forecast for UK interest rates increases pushed back, amid fresh concerns over the flagging eurozone economy
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Fall in confidence, weak investment and increasingly bleak outlook for global economy take toll on single currency bloc
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European Central Bank remains under pressure as economists expect renewed downward pressure on inflation
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The impact of quantitative easing was blunted by unconventional monetary policies and conservative fiscal policies
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Rolling business and financial news, as German sentiment slides again and shares in Italy’s Monte dei Paschi’s are suspended after tumbling 15%
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Ireland’s finance minister Michael Noonan offers assurance that the bank will survive
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The Bank of England has published the minutes of its monthly rate-setting committee, revealing that a majority voted to keep interest rates at 0.5%
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Hans-Werner Sinn: The eurozone should emulate the US approach in maintaining stability in a monetary union
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The bank’s aim is to revive economies in the single currency zone that have been hit by a decline in business lending
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Business leader: Berlin’s increasingly hardline stance on spending caps on France and Italy could drive them out of the euro
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Larry Elliott: The explanation for the plunge on global financial markets comes down to one word: Europe
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Editorial: Tumbling markets, anxieties over the viability of banks and differences over austerity show that the crisis in the eurozone is still very much with us
We should cash-bomb the people - not the banks