Poll rout could end Hollande's French reform push

Giving up

Reuters

Greece is creating room for deal with Eurozone

Common ground

Russian central bank chooses banks over rouble

Hole in the water

Business Standard

Europe returns to Franco-German axis of neurosis

Remember why

In a small corner of Europe, hope for the euro

Flickering in the rain

Ukraine crisis forced into suspended animation

Looking for an endgame

Greece tries risky step to dispel uncertainty

Fireman Samaras

Areva holders pay for years of state blunders

Nuclear meltdown

Untimely succession

Oligarch arrest shows Russia back to siege economy

No Yukos

EU will find Russian sanctions worth the pain

Nothing to lose

Yukos ruling casts Russia further into the cold

A fine award

Sarkozy probe latest sign of sick French politics

Slowly drifting

Investors beware: France will get more erratic

Who's in charge?

Power play

Ukraine bailout can work if politics are fixed

Third time lucky?

Russia good place to start for DSK's macro fund

Go east, old man

EU's Crimea sanctions only good as opening gambit

First strike

Talk of Russian asset freeze is empty rhetoric

Russian red herring

Ukraine, the bailout Europe cannot shirkThe European Union brokered the deal that triggered the end of the Yanukovich regime. With Russia angry and the United States absent, it must now lead the rescue of Ukraine's bankrupt economy - and first decide when to act, and how. The situation in Kiev is dire. Foreign reserves are melting away and the hryvnia, the Ukrainian currency, is in free fall in spite of a theoretical peg to the dollar. The economy is heading to a recession, with wide and widening budget and current account deficits.The public sector alone will need $13 billion to service its foreign debt this year, according to S&P. Russia already lent Ukraine $3 billion of the $15 billion promised to lure the former regime away from a deal with the EU. But the rest may not materialise, if Vladimir Putin doesn't like the next government in Kiev.The EU cannot provide all the $20-odd billion that Ukraine would require to put the economy on a firmer footing. But it can provide politi

Mayday

EU left with a few bad choices on Ukraine

Pierre Briancon