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UK refuses to contribute now. Eurozone finance ministers agreed today to provide €150 billion to boost the lending capacity of the International Monetary Fund to help...

The G20 meeting in Cannes exposed two harsh realities about the eurozone sovereign-debt crisis: that Europe's leaders still do not have the answers, and they cannot rely on...

Financial tax could help the world's poorest. You headlined your article on the G20's deliberations on a financial transaction tax “World leaders at odds on financial...

No agreement on how to solve the crisis as other issues were pushed to the sidelines. A bad trip to the French coast Taking charge of the crisis G20...

G20 winners and losers.

US and UK still oppose tax. As expected, G20 leaders failed to agree on a global financial transactions tax. But Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, insisted that he wanted...

What happened in Cannes.

France says that EU should press ahead unilaterally to introduce a financial transaction tax. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to see the European Union...

World's most powerful economies limit their commitments to promise of support ‘if necessary'. G20 leaders have failed to agree to any tangible plan to solve the eurozone's...

Monitoring team to verify implementation of austerity measures, tax cuts and structural reforms. The International Monetary Fund is to send a quarterly mission to Italy to...

Obama wants proof that eurozone countries are capable of bringing debt crisis under control. The world's most powerful leaders meeting in Cannes are locked in talks over...

Italy's cost of borrowing at record high as G20 attentions shift away from Greece. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has expressed doubts that Italy's government can...

But other issues are also on the agenda in Cannes. The turmoil in Greece and its fall-out in the eurozone are expected to dominate meetings of G20 leaders and finance...

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel raise the stakes on eve of G20 meeting following Greece's decision to call a referendum on eurozone package. Cannes | The eurozone has...

Eurozone's largest members hold ‘intense' talks about Greek crisis before G20 summit begins. Leaders from the world's 20 leading economies have started their meeting in...

The eurozone crisis confirms many of the Obama administration's instincts about today's world order. The administration of US President Barack Obama cannot escape Europe. The...

Unesco votes to admit Palestine amid European discord. The cultural agency of the United Nations today voted to let Palestine join as a full state member, with Germany voting...

EU says the G20 should 'ensure that the IMF has adequate resources to fulfil its systemic responsibilities'. The European Union has called for the G20 group of leading or...

The G20 is usually doomed to disappoint. The date of the G20 summit in Cannes on 3-4 November has become a deadline for the eurozone to sort out its sovereign-debt crisis....