As we laid out in our Divided We Stand briefing, agreement among the EU 28 on how to respond to Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis is not easy to come by. And if the doorstep remarks of EU Foreign Ministers arriving in Brussels this morning is anythin…
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austria, eu foreign minister, EU foreign policy, EU-Russia relations, Lithuanian, russia, Ukraine, William Hague |
January 15, 2014
Our ground-breaking EU reform conference is now imminent and, as widely trailed in today’s media, UK Chancellor George Osborne will be giving the opening keynote speech.You can join the conversation throughout the day on twitter, using the #EUreform ha…
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austria, britain in europe, denmark, EU reform, eu reform conference, germany, Osborne, Poland, Sweden |
March 7, 2013
Last weekend in Austria, “Team Stronach”, a newly-founded political party which aims to abolish the euro in its current form, did quite well in two regional elections, winning 9.8% in the state of Lower Austria and 11.3% in the state of Carinthia.The p…
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The ‘growth dinner’ of EU leaders is about to start. No big decisions are expected (this is a meeting of EU leaders after all) but here’s an overview of where the different big countries are at:GermanyBerlin remains fiercely opposed to Eurobonds,…
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austria, britain in europe, EU leaders, EU summit, eurobonds, franco-german axis, FTT, germany, italy, Spain, UK; |
October 6, 2011
In our post last week, we set out the current state of play regarding the ratification of the expansion of the EFSF by the 17 eurozone’s members’ parliaments.Since then, the Austrian and Estonian parliaments have ratified the EFSF expansion as expe…
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austria, bail-out, EFSF, malta, Netherlands, Slovakia, sovereign debt |
September 30, 2011
Over at Open Europe, we admit to be poring over EU-related polls from the German-speaking world, like a German Commission offical over the Greek accounts.So here’s some polling for a Friday afternoon.A survey for Focus published today shows that 50% of…
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austria, bailout, eurozone, germany, public opinion, sovereign debt |
September 29, 2011
Below is the current status of the EFSF upgrade as ratified by national parliaments. A reminder that this is the vote on the package of measures agreed by Eurozone leaders back in July, and does not increase the overall size of the EFSF, merely its len…
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austria, EFSF, emu, eu, euro, eurozone. bail-out, germany, Netherlands, Slovakia, sovereign debt, sovereignty |
August 24, 2011
The eurozone’s embarrassing collateral-for-loans spat continues, with member states disagreeing over whether Finland should be allowed to get collateral from Greece in return for giving Athens fresh loans. Who should guarantee the guarantees remains th…
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austria, EFSF, euro, finland, germany, Greece, Netherlands, Slovakia, true finns |
July 1, 2011
Bloomberg reports that Thomas Wieser, Head of the Austrian Finance Ministry’s economic policy and financial markets department, gave a breakdown of the potential structure of a second Greek bailout at a meeting yesterday. This may just be the Austria…
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austerity, austria, banking sector, euro, eurozone. bail-out, Greece, sovereign debt |
April 4, 2011
A new opinion poll shows that Austrian, anti-immigrant, populist party FPÖ would end up on top if elections were held today, beating both the social democratic SPÖ and conservative ÖVP. There are of course multiple reasons for the party’s rise, but …
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austria, bail-out, emu, euro, finland, France, germany, Netherlands |
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