Meltdown
This will be the situation if the markets are disappointed by the decisions of the European Council on 9 December. If this happens the market will probably sell every euro […]
financial crisis
Can Europe avoid economic decline?
The public sector strikers outside English schools, hospitals and government offices today are protesting not against government pension policies but against something much bigger. There are profound economic problems that
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Radoslaw Sikorski: I fear Germany’s power less than her inactivity
The break up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system. Once the logic of “each man for himself” takes hold, can we
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No globalisation without representation
That the protestors outside St Paul’s cathedral are critical of global capitalism should not be surprise. Doesn’t everybody object to the way in which what was effectively gambling in unregulated
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What went wrong with the euro?
Peter Oborne’s campaign against the pro-Europeans took another step yesterday with his online debate with David Aaronovitch. The latter was one of the targets in his recent book “The guilty
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Who’s deposing whom?
If man proposes and God disposes, it is the bond market that deposes. Two prime ministers have resigned in the past week – George Papandreou of Greece and Silvio Berlusconi
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A treaty change is not a panacea
By Sir Julian Priestley For certain media commentators, self-appointed spokespersons for the market, our friends outside the EU and some ministers in some EU governments who should know better, the
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The fate of the eurozone – how Europe can survive the crisis
Federal Union and the Federal Trust held a conference on Saturday 29 October 2011 to examine the roots of the crisis in the eurozone and to explore possible solutions. Why
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The state we’re not in
The eurozone crisis lingers on, wreaking more havoc in the markets and bringing down yet more European governments. The Greek prime minister has resigned, and the Italian prime minister is
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A referendum in Greece?
It is hard, at the time of writing, to know what to make of the suggestion that there should be a referendum in Greece on the terms of the bailout
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