September 30, 2013
UPDATE (18:15) – Silvio Berlusconi has just come out of a meeting with MPs and Senators from his party. According to reports in the Italian media, he has outlined the following roadmap: a quick vote on the 2014 budget and a couple more economic measure…
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Alfano, berlusconi, crisis, eurozone crisis, Italian elections, italy, Letta |
September 27, 2013
Chancellor Werner Faymann (R) & Frank Stronach (L) Hot on Germany’s heels, Austria is up with its national election on Sunday.Austria is currently governed by a ‘grand coalition’ of Chancellor Werner Faymann’s centre-left social demo…
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Austrian Green Party, Austrian National Election 2013, BZÖ, FPÖ, ÖVP, SPÖ, team stronach |
September 26, 2013
The latest Cypriot deposit data is out and it shows some stabilisation in bank deposits in Cyprus. According to the data total deposits decreased by around €460m in August, although much of this was down to the conversion of 10% of unsecured Bank of …
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Bloomberg reports on a potential proposal by the European Commission to alter the EU’s ‘Balance of Payments’ (BoP) facility to allow it to aid banks which may need to be recapitalised in the aftermath of next year’s ECB Asset Quality Review and…
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asset quality review, balance of payments, bank bailout, banking sector, ECB, Spanish bank bailout, stress tests |
September 25, 2013
Last week, the UK launched another legal challenge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against an unwanted piece of financial regulation – this time, the bankers’ bonus cap. This comes in the wake of some favourable legal assessment from a UK poin…
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bank bonus, banker bonus, ECJ, EU financial regulation, Financial Services, legal challenge, UK-EU relations |
AfD chief Bernd Lucke on the campaign trailIt’s barely been half a year since the German anti-euro party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) emerged onto the political scene (and we were one of the first to flag up the then-unknown party), but its…
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AFD, angela merkel, bernd lucke, Bundestagswahl, CDU/CSU, FDP, German 2013 federal election, SPD |
As we noted in this morning’s press summary the back and forth over different coalitions and their terms has begun in Germany. So far however all comments are likely strategic and no serious movement is to be expected in the next days. SPD chairman S…
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CDU/CSU, Coalition, German 2013 federal election, german elections, grand coalition, Greens, Merkel, SPD |
In case you wondered about just how crushing Merkel’s victory in Sunday’s German elections was, check this out. Courtesy of Die Welt, these maps have been doing the rounds on twitter, showing the strongest party for each constituency in comp…
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Black Forest, BTW13, CDU, german elections, infographic, Merkel, SPD |
September 24, 2013
Our Director Mats Persson has an op-ed in today’s Telegraph. See below for the full text. The old joke about the European Union was that it had two capitals: Brussels and Berlin. In the wake of the eurozone crisis, we can replace Brussels with Frank…
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How will Ed Miliband’s new Energy policies go down in the EU?At our fringe event today at the Labour Party conference – that we organised together with IPPR (write-up to follow) – we sought to answer the question, how Labour should respond to a changin…
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2030, Ed Miliband, energy prices, eu energy, labour eu policy, price freeze, renewables |
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