The World on Wednesday - Greece

This BBC video is a greater starter. Greece face a massive budget deficit and are now looking to the EU for help with how they deal with it. One of the major issues is that Greece’s problems could spill over and have damaging consequences to other EU countries.

Is a weak pound good?

As some of you may be discovering it isn’t a great time for UK holiday makers to go on holiday in the USA or Europe. As the value of the pound against both the dollar and the euro has weakened it has meant that it is more expensive to buy goods abroad (remember as a tourist going abroad we are an import because the money goes out of the UK and into the foreign country). Could this weak pound be good for the UK economy as a whole?