Britain on the Brink: The Cuts, The Coming Austerity – Is There an Alternative? You are Invited to a Book Launch Professor Stephen Haseler introduces his new book MELTDOWN UK: […]
Meltdown UK: there is another way (28 October 2010) Read More »
Last Thursday’s blog post about Daniel Hannan’s view of Iceland has provoked a response. The Conservative MEP has replied in his blog on the Telegraph website (read it here). Aside
Sandals or jackboots? Read More »
Conservative anti-European MEP Daniel Hannan writes from Iceland that, rather than bailing out the banks, they should have been allowed to crash. The apparent health of the Icelandic economy is
A politician thinking small Read More »
Veteran Guardian political commentator Michael White has called for an apology from politicians who were in favour of joining the euro because of how things have turned out now. “But
Michael White: an apology Read More »
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
Is the eurozone working? Lessons from the Greek crisis Read More »
Economic commentator Anatole Kaletsky wrote an interesting article comparing sovereign debt with banking debt (read it here), but I am not sure that he is reconciled to the consequences. Anatole
The regulation of sovereign debt Read More »
Opponents of the EU are starting to crow. And it is not hard to see why. Maybe the different member states of the European Union will not be able to
More integration or less? Read More »
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
Are we asking too much of our politicians? Read More »
There is an interesting piece in the Financial Times today reporting on the scale of the debts that have built up in post-Communist Europe. (Read it here.) Greece may be
Sharing the economic pain Read More »
The economic crisis in Europe is falling most severely in Greece at the moment. The Greek government has a ruinously high deficit this year, at 12.7 per cent of GDP,
Greece should go to the IMF Read More »
