September 30, 2011
Over at Open Europe, we admit to be poring over EU-related polls from the German-speaking world, like a German Commission offical over the Greek accounts.So here’s some polling for a Friday afternoon.A survey for Focus published today shows that 50% of…
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austria, bailout, eurozone, germany, public opinion, sovereign debt |
The European Commission just made it a lot more difficult to defend free movement in Europe. Free movement and open borders (two separate but related EU issues) are very difficult things to sell to the public, witness the Bombardier row (which had comp…
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benefits, coalition govenrment, European Commission, free movement, immigration, public opinion |
We’ll resist the rather too obvious “EU officials are on another planet” jokes. You might think that all available resources are going into saving the EU countries that stand on the verge of financial collapse. Well, there’s always some cash left for v…
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September 29, 2011
Below is the current status of the EFSF upgrade as ratified by national parliaments. A reminder that this is the vote on the package of measures agreed by Eurozone leaders back in July, and does not increase the overall size of the EFSF, merely its len…
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austria, EFSF, emu, eu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, germany, Netherlands, Slovakia, sovereign debt, sovereignty |
It was Italy’s worst kept secret. Everybody knew that the second austerity package hastily put together by the Italian government in August had been – let’s say – ‘inspired’ by the ECB, despite several clumsy attempts to deny the existence of a letter …
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austerity, berlusconi, ECB, euro, italy, one-size-fits-all monetary policy, sovereign debt, sovereignty |
The headlines tomorrow will say that the German Bundestag agreed to pass the expansion of the EFSF, and that Chancellor Merkel managed to get enough coalition votes to preserve her ‘Chancellor’s majority’; 315 in favour, 13 against and 2 abstenti…
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September 28, 2011
The Spectator’s James Forsyth has conducted an extended interview with Foreign Secretary, William Hague, which contains a lot of interesting points, not least about the ongoing Eurozone crisis, the future direction of the EU, coalition politics on Eu…
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The Labour Party conference has provided a belated opportunity to focus on the opposition party’s policies, and our interest naturally gravitated towards what Eds Milliband and Balls would have to say on the UK’s relations with the EU, and cruciall…
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September 27, 2011
Comments on the rumours that Eurozone leaders are considering to top up the EFSF in order to combat the eurocrisis, and even including the ECB in it, seem to be all over the place. However, apart from the IMF, no one seems to be rather supportive of t…
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In today’s City AM, we give our take on the idea that was floated over the weekend to top up the EFSF, using the fire power of the ECB:THERE was quite a bit of excitement in the media and financial markets over the weekend. The hot news was that Euroz…
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default, ECB, EFSF, eurozone, germany, Greece, sovereign debt |
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