Financial Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Eurozone annual inflation has turned positive for the first time in seven months but is still undershooting the European Central Bank's goal by a wide margin, writes Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt.Annual inflation in the 16-country region was 0.6 per cent in November, according to a preliminary estimate by Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, released yesterday. That was the...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Bankers fear over-regulationBy Victor Mallet in Madrid and Ralph Atkins and James Wilson in FrankfurtPublished: November 17 2009 22:04 | Last updated: November 17 2009 22:04European bankers on Tuesday warned that excessive regulation in response to the global financial crisis would endanger growth in the real economy, although some international officials insisted tougher rules and an...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
FT ranking of European finance ministersBy Ralph Atkins, Andrew Whiffin and FT reporters Published: November 16 2009 19:40 | Last updated: November 16 2009 19:40In a year when finance ministers have had to throw away their usual scripts and improvise on policy, who has come out top of the FT’s ranking? Our interactive guide shows how each of the European finance ministers was ranked politically,...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Spanish bank reform to gather paceBy Victor Mallet and Ralph Atkins in Madrid Published: November 16 2009 00:02 | Last updated: November 16 2009 00:02Spain’s central bank wants a third of the country’s 45 savings banks to be quickly absorbed by stronger institutions as part of a radical reform of the financial sector. In an interview with the Financial Times, Miguel Fernández Ordóñez,...
Global Economy Matters (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Well, it is not as if I relish rubbing salt into old wounds, but this quote from the latest piece by Ben Hall in Paris and Ralph Atkins in today's Financial Times is just too good to resist. French manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate for nine years, according to a survey on Monday, confirming that France has become the economic powerhouse of continental Europe. Purchasing managers’...
Euro Watch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Well, it is not as if I relish rubbing salt into old wounds, but this quote from the latest piece by Ben Hall in Paris and Ralph Atkins in today's Financial Times is just too good to resist. French manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate for nine years, according to a survey on Monday, confirming that France has become the economic powerhouse of continental Europe. Purchasing managers’...
A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Well, it is not as if I relish rubbing salt into old wounds, but this quote from the latest piece by Ben Hall in Paris and Ralph Atkins in today’s Financial Times is just too good to resist. French manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate for nine years, according to a survey on Monday, confirming [...]
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Schemes in which people work fewer hours while the government tops up their pay mean that some of the largest European economies have curbed the social costs of the severe recession, writes Ralph Atkins
