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Europe is diverging: ignore it at your peril
By Lorenzo Marsili In the optimistic 1990s, the introduction of the Euro was to represent the kernel of the European integration process. The single currency was meant to act as the motor for the...
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The Germans vs. Mario Draghi
By Henrik Mueller As the stress in financial markets is bound to return, the ECB and its president may run into a severe reputational crisis in the Eurozone’s biggest country. This column looks at the...
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What has been agreed on banking union risks reigniting, rather than resolving...
By Iain Begg In December 2013 EU finance ministers negotiated an agreement aimed at establishing a banking union, with further talks between the European Parliament and the Member States ending in an...
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European Discourses on Managing the Greek Crisis: Denial, Distancing and Blaming
By Dimitris Papadimitriou and Sotirios Zartaloudis Since the outbreak of the Eurozone crisis much attention has focused on the deficiencies of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its effects on...
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The Crises in the Eurozone and Ukraine Have Heralded the ‘Return of Politics’...
By Luuk van Middelaar On New Year’s Eve 2011, a sober but moving ceremony took place in the Estonia theatre in Tallinn. Prime-minister Ansip withdrew his country’s first euros from an ATM outside the...
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A Legitimization of the Italian Government More Than a Vote for Europe
By Monica Poletti The overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party Elections in Italy rarely fail to surprise. The victory at the 2014 EP elections of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his...
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Germany, the giant with the feet of clay
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito On the surface, it stands to reason to think that, as Europe’s largest economy, Germany’s position in Europe can act as the saviour to pull the Eurozone out of its...
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The Double Death of Europe
By Adrian Pabst Introduction: the broken promise of peace and prosperity The continual crisis in the Eurozone and in Ukraine poses the most serious danger to Europe since the darkest days of the Cold...
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Are Italian Public Debt Forecasts Too Optimistic?
By Giuseppe Bianchimani Italy, a history of large public debt By Maryb60 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsItaly has the third largest stock of public debt in the world, the second in the euro zone...
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Greece – Deal or no deal? Parameters of a decision
By Max Hänska It appears to me that much of the ongoing discussion about the Greek debt talks misinterprets the parameters of the challenge, and the resulting (irreconcilable) disagreement. Some...
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Argentina debt restructuring deal – 15 years too late!
By Kanad Bagchi On 28th February 2016, Argentina finally reached a settlement with the rest of its holdout creditors lead by Elliot Management in what is being hailed as ‘historic’ signalling the...
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The European Union at a Crossroads
By Roberto Orsi The European Union is approaching a moment of difficult decisions which will determine whether it will manage to survive in the near future or whether it will enter the final trajectory...
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Portugal: Euro Zone’s brightening socio-economic outlook
In the present post, Lucas Juan Manuel Alonso Alonso analyses some of the more important points contained in the OECD’s 2017 Economic Survey of Portugal. It offers an analysis of the socio-economic...
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Could the Current Reform Plan Make the Eurozone Sustainable?
By Konstantinos Myrodias The Eurozone is recovering from a long crisis; growth rates are turning positive across the Eurozone after a decade, business confidence is rising. Current accounts are...
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The Crises in the Eurozone and Ukraine Have Heralded the ‘Return of Politics’...
By Luuk van Middelaar On New Year’s Eve 2011, a sober but moving ceremony took place in the Estonia theatre in Tallinn. Prime-minister Ansip withdrew his country’s first euros from an ATM outside the...
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A Legitimization of the Italian Government More Than a Vote for Europe
By Monica Poletti The overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party Elections in Italy rarely fail to surprise. The victory at the 2014 EP elections of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his...
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Germany, the giant with the feet of clay
By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito On the surface, it stands to reason to think that, as Europe’s largest economy, Germany’s position in Europe can act as the saviour to pull the Eurozone out of its...
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The Double Death of Europe
By Adrian Pabst Introduction: the broken promise of peace and prosperity The continual crisis in the Eurozone and in Ukraine poses the most serious danger to Europe since the darkest days of the Cold...
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Are Italian Public Debt Forecasts Too Optimistic?
By Giuseppe Bianchimani Italy, a history of large public debt By Maryb60 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsItaly has the third largest stock of public debt in the world, the second in the euro zone...
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Greece – Deal or no deal? Parameters of a decision
By Max Hänska It appears to me that much of the ongoing discussion about the Greek debt talks misinterprets the parameters of the challenge, and the resulting (irreconcilable) disagreement. Some...
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