Pierre Briancon

Giving up

Poll rout could end Hollande's French reform push

Common ground

Greece is creating room for deal with Eurozone

Hole in the water

Russian central bank chooses banks over rouble

Remember why

Europe returns to Franco-German axis of neurosis

Flickering in the rain

In a small corner of Europe, hope for the euro

Looking for an endgame

Ukraine crisis forced into suspended animation

Fireman Samaras

Greece tries risky step to dispel uncertainty

Nuclear meltdown

Areva holders pay for years of state blunders

Untimely succession

Total's Margerie may need two successors

No Yukos

Oligarch arrest shows Russia back to siege economy

Nothing to lose

EU will find Russian sanctions worth the pain

A fine award

Yukos ruling casts Russia further into the cold

Slowly drifting

Sarkozy probe latest sign of sick French politics

Who's in charge?

Investors beware: France will get more erratic

Power play

Siemens offers Alstom a real alternative

Third time lucky?

Ukraine bailout can work if politics are fixed

Go east, old man

Russia good place to start for DSK's macro fund

First strike

EU's Crimea sanctions only good as opening gambit

Russian red herring

Talk of Russian asset freeze is empty rhetoric

Mayday

Ukraine, the bailout Europe cannot shirk