The Eurozone crisis threatens to push millions of people across the continent into the arms of extremists and provoke violence, a former Tory Cabinet minister will warn today.

City stockbrokers are struggling horribly. There's not much trade, and a jobs shake-out, perhaps more brutal than even they expect, is coming soon. Lots of the small firms on the edge of EC2, the ones with names that sound a bit to the stock punter in Ealing Broadway like they might be big (but that are not), have long looked like falling off the ledge.

In spite of years of harsh spending cuts and tax increases, Europe's debt problems are getting worse.

Manufacturers saw output reach its lowest level in three years this month as companies became increasingly concerned by political and economic problems abroad, a survey said.

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Sir Peter Tapsell was clearly disappointed. Rising from his seat with all the inimitable authority of a man who was working for Anthony Eden a decade before the present Prime Minister was born, he had asked what Angela Merkel's reaction had been when David Cameron had made it "admirably" clear that the Bank of England, and not some alien European body, would have oversight over British financial services.

David Cameron has threatened to veto the European Union's seven-year budget plans next month unless fellow EU leaders agree to freeze spending.

European Union leaders have announced they had agreed to create a single supervisor for banks in countries that use the euro — without saying when it would become fully operational.

Ikea's Billy bookshelves will remain cheapest to buy in the euro zone next year as the region's debt crisis weakens its currency and hurts consumer spending.

David Cameron makes little secret of his distaste for European Union summits. He is only half-joking when he complains about the many hours he spends trapped in the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, where  EU leaders gathered yesterday for their 22nd  meeting since 2010 to discuss the eurozone crisis.

Britain is drifting towards the exit door of the European Union because David Cameron’s impossible demands are alienating his natural allies, Lord Mandelson claimed today.

Downing Street today insisted that Britain continues to “work closely” with Germany, amid claims that Chancellor Angela Merkel has lost patience with UK intransigence over the EU and wants to create a “new, more deeply integrated Europe” based around the eurozone.

Boris Johnson today waded into the debate over the European Union with a call to David Cameron to reject “nonsensical” plans for closer integration to bolster the eurozone.

Portugal's government is putting the finishing touches to a draft budget for next year which is expected to be one of the toughest in the country's recent history.