September 18, 2013
Our Director Mats Persson has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, where he argues,A satirical cartoon in the Italian magazine L’Espresso, depicting a father and son, illustrated it best: “Papa,” says the son, “I have to go to the toilet.” “Hush,”…
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AFD, banking union, CDU, eurozone, eurozone crisis, eurozone integration, germany, Merkel, SPD |
Maurizio Gasparri, a senior member of Silvio Berlusconi’s PdL party and a Vice-President of the Italian Senate, yesterday launched one of the toughest verbal attacks on a member of the European Commission we can think of over the past months, if not ye…
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austerity, berlusconi, European Commission, eurozone crisis, Gasparri, Italian government, italy, Rehn |
September 17, 2013
As we have noted in the past, it is possible that Germany’s anti-euro party, Alternative für Deutschland, has a wider support base than polls suggest. Voters may still be embarrassed to admit support for AfD via telephone polling (popul…
Posted by Valeriy Kucheruk
There is no doubt that Germany is strongly wedded to the idea of ‘more Europe’ — at least rhetorically. But when it is boiled down specific EU policies, as the new Open Europe, Open Europe Berlin and YouGov Deutschland poll shows, there is signifi…
Posted by Valeriy Kucheruk
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david cameron, European Commission, european parliament, Francois Hollande, German Basic Law, German Constitutional Court, open europe, open europe berlin, poll |
September 16, 2013
Last Saturday was the tenth anniversary of the Swedish referendum on the euro, and our Director, Mats Persson, wrote this piece for the Guardian’s Comment is Free:”The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter…
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bondförnuft, Cameron, EU referendum, euro, euro referendum, eurozone crisis, renegotiation, Sweden, UK; |
With talk of the upcoming German elections dominating over the weekend, a potentially important yet subtle shift for post-German election policy on banking union may have received less coverage than it ought to have.Reuters reported on S…
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banking regulation, banking sector, banking union, commission, ECB, German 2013 federal election, germany, non-eurozone, srm, ssm, UK-EU relations |
Yesterday’s Bavarian state elections saw a clear victory for the CSU, Merkel’s CDU sister party at the federal level, securing 47.7% of votes in the 180-seat state legislature. That translates into 101 seats for the conservatives, 10 more than need…
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AFD, Bavaria, CDU/CSU, german elections, german regional elections, Merkel, state elections |
September 13, 2013
Back in the spring, we looked at who might be next in the line of eurozone bailout requests. It’s now looking increasingly likely that one of our predictions, Portugal, will require some form of further assistance to fully exit its current bailout. Now…
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austerity, bailout, bank capital, bank recapitalisation, banking sector, Financial Services, slovenia |
Peer Steinbrück, the SPD’s Chancellor Candidate graces the front cover of today’s Süddeutsche Magazine unapologetically flicking the bird.Here’s Steinbrück’s picture interview in full, (quick fire questions, with ‘wordless answers’):” You’re c…
Posted by Valeriy Kucheruk
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angela merkel, CDU/CSU, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, peer steinbruck, SPD |
A quick update on Spanish house prices, given that the latest quarterly statistics were released this morning.As the graph highlights the second quarter of 2013 saw the smallest decrease in house prices quarter on quarter for some time. A few points to…
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bubbles, construction, eurozone crisis, house prices, real estate, Spain |
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