Federal Union review of 2010
A review of 2010 from the perspective of federalism must surely start with the difficulties in the eurozone. The creation of the euro was the most dramatic and substantial step
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The Irish crisis – scale is everything
Stephanie Flanders argues on the BBC website that the biggest difference between the economic crises in the UK and Ireland is that the UK has its own currency while Ireland
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Can the eurozone be saved? (15 November 2010)
Monday 15 November 2010, 5.00 – 6.45 pm followed by a drinks reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB (click here for a map) The eurozone is
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Why the euro did not cause the housing crash
We quote an extract from the book “Whoops!” on the Quotebank here, explaining that action to regulate the banks should be international and not national. But it wouldn’t be fair
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Ireland and the euro
Letter in the Spectator, 16 October 2010 Allister Heath may be right that Ireland experienced lower interest rates over the last ten years than was beneficial as a result of
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No euro, no European Union?
by Brendan Donnelly The Lisbon Treaty creates new challenges and new opportunities for the European Union. The enhanced role of national and European Parliaments will make the Union a more
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Is the eurozone working? Lessons from the Greek crisis
Report on a seminar held on 24 June 2010 George Irvin (Professorial Research Fellow, SOAS, London) opened the seminar by asking whether the Greeks really deserved all the opprobrium that
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Are we asking too much of our politicians?
The recent events involving the Greek economy are enough to make even a harden Europhile like me think again about the arguments behind the euro. The financial difficulties that beset
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You can’t buck the market
Margaret Thatcher’s famous aphorism echoes down the decades, and is heard nowhere more clearly at present than in Greece. The Greek government is struggling to convince the bond markets that
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A healthy surplus
The limitations of small c conservative economics are laid bare by Peter Oborne in the Observer yesterday in his description of the problems facing the eurozone. (Read the article here.)