As Greece prepares for a new round of elections the markets are getting restless around Europe and money is being rapidly withdrawn from banks exposed to a disorderly exit. Meanwhile, in Britain David Cameron has begun openly contemplating the break-up of the single currency while the Bank of England governor has complained of a continent "tearing itself apart".
Joining Tom Clark in the studio to discuss this are Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian's social affairs editor; Heather Stewart, economics editor of the Observer, and Max Wind-Cowie of the thinktank Demos.
Also this week: after Iain Duncan Smith restated his intention to cut more than £2bn from disability benefits, we discuss whether he was right to link his reforming agenda to the issue of fraud within the system.
Declan Gaffney, a social security expert, tells us that the fastest growing part of the disability benefits bill is for people with mental health problems such as psychosis and that fraud is almost non-existent within the bounds of the disability living allowance.
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