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Otmar Issing: EU will only live up to expectations when tendency toward centralisation and bureaucratisation resisted

October 31, 2013

This post is part of a series of interviews carried out by our sister organization, Open Europe Berlin. To read the original interview between Otmar Issing, the former Chief Economist of the European Central Bank, and Open Europe Berlin in German click…

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ECB, euro, eurozone, open europe berlin, otmar issing, subsidiarity

Like its election, Germany’s coalition talks will be dominated by domestic issues

October 18, 2013

Coalition, coalition, coalition – this is all par for the course in German politics. It’s been almost a month since the BTW13, and the new government has yet to be formed. This is no cause for alarm, of course, Germans like their coalitions, and th…

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angela merkel, CDU/CSU, German 2013 federal election, german coalition negotiations, German minimum wage, Greens, horst seehofer, SPD

Almost a third of Austrians set to vote for anti-euro parties

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

German Elections: The European Reaction

September 23, 2013

Mixed Reaction in the Med Spanish daily El Mundo runs with the headline “Merkel, Merkel über alles”, while an article in the paper argues that a Grand Coalition (composed of Merkel’s CDU/CSU and the centre-left SPD) “would lead, to a certain ext…

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CDU/CSU, Die Linke, eurozone, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, SPD

Germany’s anti-euro party mobilises non-voters and FDP supporters

September 19, 2013

Three days ahead of the German election, Germany’s anti-euro party, Alternative für Deutschland is polling at 5%, according to the latest INSA Poll.If AfD actually wins 5% of the vote, it will enter the Bundestag. The poll has caused a bit of a …

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AFD, Bundestagswahl, FDP, German 2013 federal election, german elections, germany

When it comes to Europe, Germany’s political elite and public are deeply divided

September 18, 2013

On the question of Europe, there is a painful gap between the German political elite and the public.As our recent YouGov Deutschland poll on German voters’ sentiments on Europe showed, the German public is overwhelmingly against further financial sup…

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bundestag, eurozone bailouts, eurozone crisis, German 2013 federal election, germany

Germany’s anti euro party clashes with major pollster ahead of election

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…

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AFD, bernd lucke, Bundestagswahl, Forsa, german elections

New OE/OEB poll: Significant support among German voters to slim down EU

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…

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david cameron, European Commission, european parliament, Francois Hollande, German Basic Law, German Constitutional Court, open europe, open europe berlin, poll

How one finger livened-up the German election campaign

September 13, 2013

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…

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angela merkel, CDU/CSU, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, peer steinbruck, SPD

No fundamental change in eurozone policy after the German elections

September 11, 2013

Today we released an in-depth briefing on the German elections, and their implications on the eurozone. The top line: don’t expect any fundamental change in Germany’s eurozone policy after the elections.Of the nine proposals being floated to pull t…

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AFD, angela merkel, austerity, Bundestagswahl, CDU/CSU, competiveness pact., debt-pooling, Die Linke, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, SPD

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