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 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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Who’s the idiot?
Eurosceptic journalist Peter Oborne surpassed himself on Newsnight on Wednesday denouncing a spokesperson for the European Commission as “that idiot in Brussels”. The question at issue was whether the euro
Fair shares at the IMF?
Conservative MP and leading critic of the EU John Redwood has complained on his blog about the cost of participating in the IMF bailout for Greece. He does not think
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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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Greece should go to the IMF
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,
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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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Do the eurosceptics really want the veto?
Tory eurosceptic MP Daniel Kawczynski suggested, in the House of Commons yesterday, that Greece should not be allowed to veto the accession by Macedonia to the EU while the issue
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The European Union and the Greek-speaking world
By Richard Laming Normally, discussions of the involvement of Greece in the process of European integration start by remarking that Greece is the original home of democracy, and that it
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