November 12, 2012
The spotlight is back on Greece today with the release of the much anticipated Troika report (read our daily press summary or follow us on Twitter for the latest updates), meaning that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Portugal has been pushed…
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euro, eurozone crisis, Merkel, Passos Coelho, Portugal, Portuguese bailout |
November 9, 2012
We have a piece in City AM today, which look’s at the impact of this week’s crucial votes in Greece, see below for the piece in full: One down, one to go. The Greek government has got through one crucial vote this week and looks likely to ride ou…
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ECB, esm, eurozone crisis, Greece, Greek bailout, Greek euro exit, Pasok |
November 7, 2012
Our Director Mats Persson has a piece in today’s Telegraph, where he argues,Last week, even as British MPs were voting down the Government’s position on the EU budget, I was attending a European discussion of a very different kind. In a conference ro…
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banking union, Cameron, EU budget, eurozone crisis, germany, Merkel, MFF, UK-EU relations, UK; |
This morning, the EU’s Court of Auditors published its report on the EU’s 2011 accounts. Although the auditors concluded that the Commission’s accounts are reliable, they also found that the actual spending was “affected by material error”, a…
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CAP, court of auditors, EU budget, EU reform, EU regional policy, EU waste |
The European Commission is due to unveil its autumn economic forecasts on Friday, but El País has already seen a draft of what the Spanish government is going to be told – and, unsurprisingly, there seems to be no good news coming from Brussels.First …
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European Commission, eurozone crisis, imf, Rajoy, Spain, Spanish bailout, Spanish budget, Spanish deficit |
November 5, 2012
As we noted in our press summary today, this week is lining up to be another big one for Greece.The Greek government faces two crucial votes in parliament – first on Wednesday to push through the latest package of structural reforms (as demanded by t…
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bond purchases, ECB, esm, eurozone crisis, eurozone exit, Greece, Greek bailout, greek elections, Greek euro exit, Pasok, smp, sovereign debt |
November 2, 2012
This week saw the release of the Greek budget plan for 2013-2016 and it did not make for happy reading. The English version is yet to be released but below we reproduce some of the key facts and figures from the Greek report. The table below essentiall…
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deficit, ECB, esm, EU-IMF memorandum, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Greece, grexit, growth, imf, sovereign debt |
This is exciting stuff. As we’ve argued repeatedly, the future of Europe will largely be decided in Germany, as that country goes through a very dynamic, internal debate.Which is why Wednesday’s launch of Open Europe Berlin gGmbH, Open Europ…
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accountability, democratic deficit, ECB, fiscal union, germany, open europe berlin, otmar issing, transparency |
Following Nick Clegg’s Europe speech at Chatham House yesterday, we argued on the Spectator’s Coffee House blog,Nick Clegg this morning fell into the usual ‘all or nothing’ fallacy on Europe. He said: ‘As soon as we start talking about repatriat…
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david cameron, EU budget, EU budget rules, eu membership, MFF, nick clegg, renegotiation, repatriation of powers, structural funds |
November 1, 2012
Over on the Spectator’s Coffee House blog, we argue,When in 1996 the US Congress threw out Bill Clinton’s Federal budget they precipitated a partial shutdown of the US Government. However, anyone looking at the growing prospect of a UK EU budget ve…
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CAP, david cameron, EU budget, EU regional policy, EU structural funds, EU veto |
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