Britain is favour of Europe again - at least for a while
David Gow in Brussels
It may even have dawned in Westminster and Whitehall that, in the post-crisis, post-capitalist era, Europe as a bloc will need to row together – or sink together
The EU is turning towards green technology and manufacturing as it tries to find a way out of recession, but its leaders continue to squabble over how it should be done
Herr Steinbrück thinks the crunch is good for Germany. Bah, humbug
David Gow in Brussels
Europe's grumpiest finance minister scorns the idea of stimulus spending - but the Bundesrepublik is facing its biggest economic contraction since 1949
The coming year of economic crisis is no time for Berlusconi to chair the G8
David Gow in Brussels
The 72-year-old playboy of the western world has saved David Beckham from LA obscurity and is now hell-bent on saving Italy and, Gordon-like, the planet
Obama's US sets the recession-fighting tone and Barroso's EU can only follow
The European commission president is fooling himself with claims that the Americans are coming round to Europeans' way of thinking on the recession and climate change