June 19, 2014
If Angela Merkel had privately hoped to quietly ditch Jean-Claude Juncker after the European election, it all started to go wrong when Axel Springer, the media group that owns Bild, Germany’s and Europe’s biggest selling paper, added its substanti…
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Bild Zeitung, commission president, democracy, EU budget rules, eurobonds, eurozone, Jean-Claude Juncker, Merkel, spitzenkandidaten |
Germany’s Spiegel (magazine and online news agency), has been vocal in its criticism of David Cameron forhis objection to Jean-Claude Juncker as the next Commission President, on the premise that he is blocking the democractic choice in Europe.Spiegel’…
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Bild Zeitung, Der Spiegel, European Commission, eurozone, juncker, Merkel |
We pointed out on Friday that a powerful coalition between media and politicians was forming in Germany in support of Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next Commission President and the Spitzenkandidaten experiment more generally. More worryingly for Ca…
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Anglo-German relations, Bild Zeitung, britain in europe, Cameron, democracy, Die Welt, juncker, Martin Schulz, spitzenkandidaten |
May 30, 2014
Since Tuesday’s European Council, at which Angela Merkel pointedly played down Jean-Claude Juncker’s prospects of becoming the next European Commission President, she has come under a phenomenal amount of pressure domestically from a wide ranging coali…
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Bild Zeitung, Cameron, faux democracy, German politics, juncker, Merkel, SPD |
UPDATE 12:50 .@OpenEurope on @MartinSchulz’s new campaign ads http://t.co/ECWtV53G0f Tho I think they disagree with French veto over German flag waving— Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) May 23, 2014 Just to make clear, as Bojan Pancevski of the Sunday Times…
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Bild Zeitung, European Commission, Martin Schulz, spitzenkandidaten |
February 5, 2014
This is the front page of Germany’s (and Europe’s) largest newspaper Bild. The headline reads:“Greeks richer than us! …But [the German] government plans new billions of aid.”Now this is not exactly a surprising or rare occurrence – we…
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February 27, 2013
Yesterday Bild’s online edition asked will the Italians destroy or euro? Today the same headline appears in the print edition, complete with a mock up of as Grillo and Berlusconi as clowns.However, its not just the tabloid press that are using this ana…
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Beppe Grillo, berlusconi, Bild Zeitung, german media, germany, italy |
February 26, 2013
As always Bild Zeitung cuts to the chase. Its headline on the Italian Elections in today’s edition reads “Grand Confusion! Italians elect government of chaos”. For good measure, the online version adds “Will they now destroy our euro”? The “our” in tha…
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Bild Zeitung, eurozone, German public opinion, Italian elections, italy, mario monti |
December 3, 2012
When the Commission talks about the EU budget, it’s always worth taking their “facts” with a pinch of salt – they have a record of spinning the figures pretty shamelessly. The issue of the EU budget is refusing to go away – the torturous discu…
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Bild Zeitung, EU budget, EU regional policy, EU structural funds, germany, Lewandowski, spin |
September 27, 2012
In our daily review of UK and continental press, we spotted an interesting consumer analysis survey referenced on the front page of Bild yesterday. The survey – conducted by Axel Springer AG and the Bauer Media Group – found that Germans were conservat…
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Bild Zeitung, bond purchases, Draghi, ECB, German public opinion, germany, inflation, OMT, otmar issing, weidmann |
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