March 31, 2014
This could easily be a standard monthly headline. As before the past four or five ECB meetings, the questions of deflation and further easing are once again weighing on the ECB Governing Council and the markets. Over the past month the market has come …
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deflation, Draghi, ECB, ECB Governing Council, ecb rate cut, inflation, weidmann |
If you want to get a sense of how badly the latest French local elections went for President François Hollande, have a look at today’s front page of left-leaning French daily Libération: The headline means ‘The punishment’, and it summarises the…
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Ayrault, eurozone, eurozone crisis, France, French local elections, Front National, Hollande, Le Pen, Municipales 2014, Valls |
March 28, 2014
In a major coup for David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne has penned a joint op-ed in the FT with his German opposite number Wolfgang Schäuble. Both argue for the need for EU reform (including services liberalisation) and for safegu…
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anglo-german axis, david cameron, EU reform, EU treaty change, eurozone, George Osborne, schauble, single market safeguards |
March 27, 2014
How much are the new immigrants costing us asks BildThe German government’s preliminary report on EU migration was presented yesterday by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière and Labour Minister Andrea Nahles, and contains some very interesting m…
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access to benefits, anglo-german axis, Cameron, CDU/CSU, EU free movement, immigration, Merkel |
The first EU debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage on LBC was for the most part restrained with a surprising amount of detail and substance. Most of the key fault lines in the UK-EU relationship were touched on.However, given that the two men…
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access to benefits, Clegg v Farage, EU debate, EU law, EU referendum, EU reform, European arrest warrant, free movement, jobs, Lib Dems, Open Europe factcheck, public opinion, services, trade, UKIP |
The much hyped debate between UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has made the Westminister village buzz.So who won? The headlines give it to Farage on the basis of the instant YouGov poll commissioned by the Sun which found tha…
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March 26, 2014
Ahead of the first EU debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Open Europe’s Pawel Swidlicki has written this piece for Lib Dem Voice:Like all political obsessives up and down the country I’ve stocked up on popcor…
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Brexit, Cameron, Clegg, EP2014, Farage, Lib Dems, renegotiation, UK-EU relations, UKIP |
Beatrix says change direction – but where to?When the anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland was first founded, it was derided as a fringe party for professors obsessed with ordoliberalism that would struggle to make a lasting impact on the German poli…
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AFD, bernd lucke, Crimea, EP2014, German politics, populism, russia, TTIP, Ukraine |
March 24, 2014
The way influence flows in CrimeaNow that Russia has full military control over Crimea the the implications of taking control are beginning to sink in with President Medvedev claiming that “it’s now our headache”. The most obvious headac…
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Yesterday was a big night for Marine Le Pen’s anti-EU Front National, which emerged as the main winner of the first round of the French mayoral elections. The party won an outright victory in Hénin-Beaumont, a former mining city in northern France, a…
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EP elections, EP2014, FN, France, Front National, Hollande, Le Pen, Sarkozy, UMP |
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