
Your search for "Christine Lagarde" produced 139 items.
| 1. Agreement on terms of permanent bail-out fund | January 26, 2012 |
|
Eurozone finance ministers agree on terms of the European Stability Mechanism a year earlier than planned. The eurozone's 17 finance ministers agreed on Monday (23 January)... | |
| 2. The IMF's eurozone woes | January 26, 2012 |
Lagarde identifies the eurozone as biggest threat. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is involved in a deep, complex and potentially corrosive relationship with the... |
![]() |
|
|
| 3. Greek bail-out and treaty change on ministers' agenda | January 20, 2012 |
Finance ministers from the eurozone's 17 member states will hold their first meeting of the year on Monday (23 January), with little sign that the sovereign-debt crisis is... |
![]() |
|
|
| 4. ECB at the centre of the euro storm | December 21, 2011 |
The European Central Bank is not immune to the growing tensions between member states over the eurozone crisis. The decision by Christine Lagarde, the managing director of... |
![]() |
|
|
| 5. Doubts emerge over IMF funding plan | December 15, 2011 |
|
Final total could be less than the €200 billion agreed at summit. Struggling eurozone economies are hopeful that they might receive more support from the International... | |
| 6. Enter the IMF? | December 15, 2011 |
Even with more money from the EU, the International Monetary Fund will need to look for money from elsewhere if it is to help the eurozone's struggling economies. Christine... |
![]() |
|
|
| 7. Eurozone rescue fund fast-tracked | December 9, 2011 |
|
Fund will become operational in mid-2012, but no decision on increasing its lending capacity. The eurozone's permanent rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM),... | |
| 8. Eurozone finance ministers look at IMF support | November 30, 2011 |
Bilateral loans could supplement eurozone bail-out fund; ministers endorse Greece's next €8bn loan tranche. The eurozone's 17 finance ministers discussed ways to boost... |
![]() |
|
|
| 9. A bad trip to the French coast | November 10, 2011 |
|
G20 winners and losers. | |
| 10. Taking charge of the crisis | November 10, 2011 |
|
The emergence of the Frankfurt Group. A new eurozone inner core group emerged at the G20 in Cannes: the Frankfurt Group. It comprises Nicolas Sarkozy, France's... | |
| 11. G20 talks on 'a knife edge' | November 4, 2011 |
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... |
![]() |
|
|
| 12. Sarkozy warns about Italy | November 3, 2011 |
|
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... | |
| 13. Greece 'could leave eurozone' | November 3, 2011 |
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... |
![]() |
|
|
| 14. Call for unity ahead of Greek crisis talks | November 2, 2011 |
|
Emergency talks to be held in Cannes ahead of G20 summit. José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, today issued an appeal for national unity in... | |
| 15. Merkel, Sarkozy call emergency meeting on Greece | November 1, 2011 |
|
Papandreou to brief eurozone leaders on referendum plan as government faces collapse. Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, are to... | |
| 16. Gaullist hopeful | October 27, 2011 |
France's finance minister has a domestic role in a global crisis. It is not in the least to François Baroin's discredit that, in the middle of the most severe... |
![]() |
|
|
| 17. G20 puts pressure on eurozone leaders | October 15, 2011 |
G20 finance ministers say that action must be taken at 23 October European Council. Finance ministers from the G20 today told eurozone member states that they must come up... |
![]() |
|
|
| 18. The IMF rides to Europe's rescue? | October 13, 2011 |
The ECB should not take the lead in tackling the sovereign-debt crisis; there is another option. The challenge is formidable. How do you keep up – in Italy's case, step up... |
![]() |
|
|
| 19. Uncomfortable home truths for the US | September 29, 2011 |
|
The US is, rightly, worried about the financial problems in Europe, but it cannot ignore its own economic woes. ‘Firepower' was the word on the lips of the delegates at... | |
| 20. A long way behind the curve | September 29, 2011 |
|
Warnings about the severity of the economic situation do not seem to be getting through to some senior EU officials. The mood music from the annual conference of the... | |