Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

David Gow

Headshot of David Gow

David Gow is the former European business editor of the Guardian. He was the paper's Germany editor in Bonn from late 1989 to 1995. He was also the first EU correspondent for The Scotsman in the 1970s, and is now a freelance journalist/consultant based in Edinburgh

April 2024

  • Hella Pick. London. Photograph by David Levene. 13/3/17

    Letter: Hella Pick obituary

    David Gow writes: Hella sat in the front-passenger seat with her legs hanging out of the car window, laughing and joking

June 2020

  • Aileen Christianson

    Other lives
    Aileen Christianson obituary

    Other lives: Writer and academic driven by her twin obsessions, Scottishness and femaleness

December 2017

  • Colin Imrie was a Scottish nationalist and passionate pro-European, and saw no contradiction in those two identities

    Other lives
    Colin Imrie obituary

    Other lives: Civil servant who worked on the Scottish response to Brexit

October 2014

  • Angus Macleod, journalist, who has died aged 63 chap.

    Other lives
    Angus Macleod obituary

    Other lives: Scottish editor of the Times who was an authoritative commentator on the country's politics and society

May 2014

  • German policeman

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 27 May 1993: Refugees at the gates of Europe

    Originally published in the Guardian on 27 May 1993: German transit terminal gives a foretaste of 'fortress Europe' as confused migrants await their fate

November 2013

  • BRITAIN-SCOTLAND-POLITICS-REFERENDUM

    Ukip could be the midwife of Scottish independence

    David Gow
    David Gow: A triumph by the anti-EU party in European elections would propel Tory Eurosceptics into overdrive and swell the nationalist vote in Scotland

August 2013

  • archiveGermany The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 24 August 1990: Two Germanys set October 3 for unification

    Originally published in the Guardian on 24 August 1990: The historic decision to abandon East Germany's separate existence, thereby changing the face of Europe, was taken early yesterday

October 2012

  • BAE Systems merger

    Why Europe needs the BAE-EADS merger to succeed

    David Gow
    David Gow: Europe's defence market has been far too fragmented for decades and needs the merger to consolidate its position

February 2012

  • Olli Rehn

    UK to narrowly escape recession, European commission forecasts

  • IMF chief, Christine Lagarde, will be in a troika supervising Greece’s debt account

    Germany at odds with Dutch and IMF boss over eurozone bailout fund

  • Hungarian icebreaker near the parliament building in Budapest

    Hungary faces loss of aid for breaking EU budget rules

  • Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos

    Greeks will suffer for five years as part of resolving eurozone crisis

  • Greeks face further wage cuts as price of latest bailout

  • Greece waits on eurozone ministers to approve crucial €130bn bailout

  • Three Greek critics yet to ratify bailout

  • Greece in final bailout talks in Brussels

  • Markets back Greek bailout hopes but German schism could still derail deal

December 2011

  • European Central Bank (ECB)

    Draghi warns of new year contagion

    ECB chief signals danger from huge volume of debt to be rolled over in first quarter
  • Eurozone crisis

    Markets prepare for turmoil over fears of new European credit crunch

    Doubts over legal basis of EU 'fiscal compact' and warning of fresh slump leave markets unsettled
  • PM David Cameron

    Cameron's European gang of four: the Chuks

    The EU treaty crisis has not left the UK as isolated as it may seem – the Czechs, Hungarians and Swedes may yet support the PM's stance
About 3,633 results for David Gow
1234...
Explore more on these topics