Global recession has weakened the great project of a politically and economically unified continent, but now is not the time for Britain to turn its back on it There'll be more, not less, Europe...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/29/david-gow-on-europe
The pharmaceuticals industry needs to rebuild its image with a public sceptical of science and genetically modified crops, and at Bayer they are trying to do just that Big Pharma is in the throe...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/22/pharmaceuticals-industry-gm
Despite the G20 rhetoric, EU countries are set to throw their budgets at unemployment with more schemes to force workers into shorter hours Is short-time working yet another form of state aid to...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/16/european-short-time-working-unemployment
Deutsche Bahn's boss was axed because the recession derailed his sale of the state-owned firm, but the country's biggest bank is changing tracks with more ease The deepening depression sweeping ...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/02/europe-deutschebank
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 After 36 years of standing on ...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/mar/26/britain-in-favour-of-europe
"The recession is turning into a depression in an unprecedented manner and at an unprecedented pace … The degree of fiscal expansion may not be enough but the possibilities for will diminish �...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/mar/19/david-gow-transnational-institute-debate
This lovely medieval city, its gorgeous Gothic cathedral incomplete, is the eternal crossroads between France and Germany. Left relatively unscathed by the second world war, it is a good place to...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/mar/11/strasbourg-globalrecession
Fiat's boss forecast Armageddon for the car industry at the annual Geneva event, predicting only two European car firms would survive the present crisis The soothsayer of doom flitted in and out...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/mar/04/europe-car-industry-mergers
EU recovery plans are focusing on environmental investment and manufacturing, but the road is strewn with obstacles This week the British government revealed its true colours: yes to £1.3 trill...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/feb/25/eu-green-recovery-ecb
Is the EU falling apart? Can the euro survive? The coming week is scheduled to deliver some eagerly awaited policy responses to these suddenly urgent questions, but the prospects are that they wi...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/feb/18/european-union-recession-policy
Europe's car industry is drowning. On an open ice-rink in Villach, an Austrian alpine town, rain pours down out of the heavy skies, flooding the launch of the new Mini convertible and soaking the...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/feb/11/automotive-europe
The 'Buy American' clause inserted into Obama's rescue package has aroused indignation, but France, among others, is bringing in nationalist measures A stench of hypocrisy seeped this week from ...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/feb/04/eu-protectionism-europe
Ignorance, unconstrained greed, negligence … Germany's former chancellor bluntly condemns Britain and the US for the global financial crisis He celebrated his 90th birthday just before Christm...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jan/29/crisis-schmidt-us-britain
Our shrinking and ageing population is a fiscal timebomb It's hard to be depressed, yet alone think of a new Great Depression, after Tuesday's moving display of grave optimism – and America's ...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jan/22/david-gow-europe-migration
"We have changed the mindset of our people: they tell us the truth," Fabrice Brégier, chief operating officer of Airbus, said this week at the ground-breaking ceremony in Toulouse to launch the ...
In this unhappy, freezing new year, dominated by Gaza and Gazprom, it's hard to detect the "green shoots" of recovery and even harder to be at all optimistic about the whole of 2009. But one sick...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jan/07/automotive-europe
Is Peer Steinbrück, Germany's very grumpy finance minister, Scrooge of the year? Or is he simply in denial? The man who celebrates (?) his 62nd birthday on 10 January has been at it again this w...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/31/germany-europe
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 Gordon Brown saved the world, Angela Merk...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/dec/23/silvio-berlusconi-g8-david-beckham
Queues to spend money on gifts and luxury snacks at the Christmas market of Brussels make the recession seem invisible, while across mainland Europe confidence remains high Snails floating in a ...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/dec/17/recession-europe-christmas
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 Back in a dark and gloomy E...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/dec/10/europe-global-economy-barroso-obama